When you think about it, Chicago is the best city to live at.

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The willis tower support breast cancer month

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The willis tower support breast cancer month

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The antennas are pink

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Where?

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Singapore, London, NYC, LA, Montreal >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Chicago

[LJJ]

*image of Rio*

Isn't Rio mostly a crime and poverty infested shithole?

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Isn't Rio mostly a crime and poverty infested shithole?

no

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no

ranked #9 in murder rate.

10: Cape Town, South Africa= 68 murders per 100 000 since 2000.
9: Rio De Janeiro, Brazil= even though Rio's central municipal murder rate stands at 37 murders per 100 000, it's surrounding metropolitan contains a poorer concentration of citizens resulting in more violent homicides.= 85 murders per 100 000.
9: Cali, Colombia= 85 violent deaths per 100 000 inhabitants.
8: Guatemala City, Guatemala= 90 homicides per 100 000 people.
7: San Salvador, El Salvador= 95 killings per 100 000 people.
6: Kinshasa, D.R. of the Congo= least personal safety out of any metropolitan and city in Africa, ranked by UN forces and Mercer Quality of Life report.= 112 homicides per 100 000.
5: Medellin, Colombia= 116 murders per 100 000
4: San Pedro Sula, Honduras= 120 homicides per 100 000 people.
3: Kingston, Jamaica= 125 homicides per 100 000 inhabitants.
2: Caracas, Venezuela= 130 murders per 100 000 people.
1: Ciudad Juarez, Mexico= 133 homicides per 100 000.

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ranked #9 in murder rate.

That doesnt make it a "crime and poverty infested shithole"

Whats your source for that data anyway? Because I am seeing different numbers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...by_murder_rate

[LJJ]

That doesnt make it a "crime and poverty infested shithole".

I guess you and I have different standards then. When a large section of the population lives in slums and crime is at a much higher level than the other cities mentioned here, I think that's a fair description. And weren't there riots throughout the summer? Doesn't sound like most of the people in Rio actually are in agreement that they have such a nice life there.

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I guess you and I have different standards then. When a large section of the population lives in slums and crime is at a much higher level than the other cities mentioned here, I think that's a fair description. And weren't there riots throughout the summer? Doesn't sound like most of the people in Rio actually are in agreement that they have such a nice life there.

There werent "riots", there were protests. These protests were due to an unfair increase in bus fares, they were not caused by people thinking that they dont "have a nice life".

Virtually all major Latin American cities have crime and poverty, that doesnt mean they are all shitholes. If poverty and crime makes Rio a shithole, then Chicago is a shithole.

Yes, Rio does have its slums, but it also has the most expensive neighborhoods in all of South America. Rio is a beautiful city full of beautiful people.

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There werent "riots", there were protests. These protests were due to an unfair increase in bus fares, they were not caused by people thinking that they dont "have a nice life".

Virtually all major Latin American cities have crime and poverty, that doesnt mean they are all shitholes. If poverty and crime makes Rio a shithole, then Chicago is a shithole.

Yes, Rio does have its slums, but it also has the most expensive neighborhoods in all of South America. Rio is a beautiful city full of beautiful people.

Yeah... none of this is really selling me.

The fact that what many trustworthy news outlets call a riots are merely "mass-scale protests over municipal services" according to you isn't really selling me Rio as the best city to live in.

The fact that other cities in Latin America also have a huge part of the population living in slums and a huge crime problem doesn't seem very relevant either.

The point is that there are many cities in the world with no true poverty and a negligible crime rate. I'm sure Rio is great to live in if you are rich and you exclusively stay in the rich enclave part of town (just like any big city), but the above mentioned factors make it a far cry from the best in my estimation.

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The point is that there are many cities in the world with no true poverty and a negligible crime rate. I'm sure Rio is great to live in if you are rich and you exclusively stay in the rich enclave part of town (just like any big city), but the above mentioned factors make it a far cry from the best in my estimation.

Even my hometown Portland OR has a few neighborhoods that I would not really want to walk through at night. Exactly which major cities have no poverty and a negligible crime rate? Aside from a few places in northern europe, I cant think of any.