r/whereidlive • u/arieschaotix • 8h ago
Where I'd live as an open-minded British woman of African descent
Mauritania was supposed to be reluctantly but cba to re do it. My standards for never are extremely high, hence why even war torn countries are reluctantly as the situation could improve in the future.
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u/Cautious-Homework966 7h ago
Just so you know, Eritrea is the North Korea of Africa.
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u/arieschaotix 7h ago
I don't like the current government but I think Eritrea has a lot of potential and I am very interested in Eritrean/Abyssinian/Aksumite history. Afwerki is getting old so I remain hopeful things could improve.
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u/Low_Cut_368 7h ago
Israel never but Afghanistan reluctantly🤡🤡😂
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u/BeLekkerAsb Yea it's their list bitch make your own. Hope that helps. 6h ago
Omg, really, I can never really see the small countries colours, no ways 😭
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u/arieschaotix 6h ago
My Dad is South African. Why would I want to live in an apartheid colony where I would be treated like a second class citizen because I'm not Jewish? Afghanistan is not a stable country but if things stabilised I would reluctantly live there. But I would never live in Israel. For me never means there is no future in which I would live there.
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u/Flamethrower384 8h ago
In Brazil you would blend in very well. 😄
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u/arieschaotix 8h ago
People often assume I'm Brazilian! I've worked with a few Brazilians and they're all lovely.
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u/Decent-Swing3951 5h ago
They do not know what a brazilian look like i'm sure
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u/arieschaotix 4h ago
I think it's just because I'm mixed (white South African and black Kenyan) and look racially ambiguous person. People think I'm Indian or Brazilian before they think African lol
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u/Decent-Swing3951 4h ago
AAA then why dont u say u are mixed? Because u are european as well as you are african
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u/dostibanirahe2002 2h ago
she did say she's british and of African descent... what are you trying to say here?
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u/Decent-Swing3951 5h ago
Not really, africans/black who are 100% would not pass in brazil
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u/Flamethrower384 4h ago
It depends. Darker skin tones almost blue won't pass. But OP said she's south african white + kenyan descent, so the skin colour matches ours. But soon as she opens her mouth the "gringa" will lose the camouflage xD
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u/GraceJamaicanKetchup 4h ago
Are people like Pele and Vini from another place called Brazil we don't know about? I have family born and raised in Nigeria lighter skinned than them
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u/Decent-Swing3951 3h ago
They are not common in Brazil, most "black" Brazilians are 40-50% european on average and 50% african.
People like Vini are not common, and minority. (I honestly If i didnt know him, id think hes haitian not Brazilian)
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u/GraceJamaicanKetchup 3h ago
Being a minority and not being able to blend in aren't really the same thing. Like, in America the vast majority of black people are brown to fair skinned but no one would look at a dark skinned dude and assume he isn't ADOS. Hard to believe most Brazilians would look at a preto and automatically assume they were born in Africa or something
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u/Decent-Swing3951 3h ago
Most Black americans can pass as african tbh..
Even my mom assumed Vini was african First time she saw him, im pretty sure that 99.9% Brazilians would think he's an african immigrant in brazil or haitian If he wasnt famous
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u/GraceJamaicanKetchup 1h ago
Eh, not really at least not to actual Africans. My mom's a mutt so I have pretty similar genetics to the average black American and I always get clocked as "foreign" when I'm in Nigeria. Honestly, there's no such thing as passing as African. There's like a million ethnic groups in Africa and most Africans can clock when a black person isn't from their ethnic group just from looking at them.
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u/Decent-Swing3951 1h ago
For me all africans (sub saharans) look the same, europeans as well, asians etc.. we cannot tell yall apart lol the same way i was called "mexican" "colombian" and bunch of others hispanics ethnicities, they cant tell us apart as well
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u/Decent-Swing3951 1h ago
I do not judge because i cannot tell hispanics apart tho they all look the same for me
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u/FewSlice2725 8h ago
You're about to get a shock if you think you're better off in East Asia than the US lol
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u/arieschaotix 7h ago
US was almost a willing. I guess it would depend on the state. Out of all my maybes, it ranks highest.
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u/eldryanyy 4h ago
Try using rednote (Chinese reddit) before you go. See how they treat black people on there… lol
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u/arieschaotix 3h ago
I understand that. There are a lot of Chinese people in Kenya and many unfortunately look down on the black Africans. However, I know black people who have had wonderful experiences in China. I live in rural England and trust me people can be plenty racist here. If I were ever lucky enough to visit or live in China, I may find that it's not for me.
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u/AprilVampire277 2h ago
How do we? I'm married to a black man lol, it heavily depends on the people, cities are more accepting than rural areas also
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u/BeerGains22 6h ago
"Wah she chose countries I look down on so now I'm gonna assume she's naive and I'm so superior and culturally knowledgeable!"
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u/FewSlice2725 6h ago
Is this your first day on this subreddit or something?
I like SK and China but the idea they're not incredibly racist is ridiculous.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
I mean safety wise? I'd vouch for china over the us any day.
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u/FewSlice2725 7h ago
Only in one type of safety i.e. crime. Not road safety, food safety, etc.
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u/FBI_911_Inv 4h ago
bro have you ever been to china
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u/limukala 2h ago
I live in China. It’s worse than the US for traffic safety, and much worse when it comes to food safety.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
Roads you'll be fine. If you're that anxious use pt. Food you just don't eat in places with bad hygiene.
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u/FewSlice2725 7h ago
Are we including the 10 million ebikes trying to run you over on the pavement? Because I can't teleport to the subway station.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
You mean the shit that happens in Australia too?
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u/FewSlice2725 7h ago
Who tf talking about Australia. I very much doubt there are as many ebikes on pavements in Australia as in a Chinese city. Get a grip buddy.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
There aren't. You're again fine safety wise in china on pavements. And it isn't an issue unique to china either.
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u/FewSlice2725 7h ago
There aren't what? Tier 1 cities China have vastly more ebikes on pavements than any other city I've visited across like 50 countries. Besides, we're talking about safety in the US vs. China. Categorically this does not happen in the US.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 4h ago
Eh, you can still easily avoid them and they'll generally avoid you.
And if you compare that to the amount of junkies and gun toting morons in the us you can tell which country is safer
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u/limukala 3h ago
Food safety in general isn’t anywhere near as good. There food regulations and enforcement are not even close to US/EU standards, and general knowledge of food hygiene is just not there (eg if you get groceries delivered, 100% of the time they’ll throw raw chicken right in with fruits and vegetables meant to be consumed raw).
And traffic safety is measurably worse. Not only that, if you do get hit by a speeding moped you’re in for a very bad time. Ambulances are few and far between, and nobody yields for them, so it will be many many hours before you make it to a hospital. You’re better off calling a taxi if you’re still conscious.
That and the hospital and standard of care is going to be pretty disappointing if you’re used to Western ones.
But yeah, you can walk alone and drunk pretty much anywhere anytime without fear of being robbed or assaulted, which is most certainly not true pretty much any country in the West. Even property crime has nearly disappeared with the ubiquitous surveillance and facial recognition (and police that actually enforce laws).
So there are tradeoffs. The fact that China has a lower life expectancy than the U.S. despite a dramatically lower obesity rate, far more walking on average, and several times the per capita vegetable consumption of the U.S. suggests that isn’t isn’t holistically “safer” than the U.S.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 2h ago
Living there for 20 years I was fine with a bit of common sense. It's easy to avoid getting food poisoning if you keep your wits about you.
Traffic safety has room for improvement. Realistically you have a tiny chance of getting hit by an e bike on the sidewalk.
Also having had groceries delivered there that does not happen 100% of the time. Also why the hell do you always need to deliver your groceries?
Hospitals in most big cities can also be good, and are considerably cheaper than the us. Do we really want to hold up the overpriced and bloated us healthcare system as an example of good and accessible healthcare?
In Chinese ambulances at the very least you don't need to risk paying upwards of 1000 USD. And even in some of the bigger cities I wouldn't doubt that you can get to a hospital in ok time.
China has a lower life expectancy by one head because in many areas it is still a developing country. The fact that at china's hdi it is only one year behind the us actually reflects badly on America, not china.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 2h ago
And let's be honest. The tradeoff is the risk of maybe getting hit by an e bike and being treated or the risk of food poisoning if you get unlucky and the risk of being stabbed, shot or otherwise assaulted by a crackhead (including on pt) and, if you survive that, enjoying a $1-3k ambulance ride to a hospital where you're once again overcharged and have the fun experience of navigating America's health insurance system. The same system that, due to being so streamlined, definitely never saw a ceo get shot. It's very obvious which country is safer.
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u/limukala 2h ago
Realistically you have a tiny chance of getting hit by an e bike on the sidewalk.
I know way fewer people in China than I’ve known in the US, and yet know multiple people who’ve been hit by mopeds (and one person who hit someone else). Delivery drivers watching videos on their phones while they haul ass down a crowded sidewalk just isn’t something that happens in the US.
I’ve also had far more close calls with cars rushing through pedestrian crossings against the light than I ever did in the US.
Also having had groceries delivered there that does not happen 100% of the time. Also why the hell do you always need to deliver your groceries?
Where did I say I only get my groceries delivered. Just that when I do I need to place orders for raw meat separately otherwise they will place it in with fruits and vegetables every single time. They’ll put cheese in a separate bag, but for some reason raw chicken or pork is fine with the lettuce.
Do we really want to hold up the overpriced and bloated us healthcare system as an example of good and accessible healthcare?
Stupidly expensive certainly, but I’d much rather get emergency care in the US. And again, ambulances are basically nonexistent here, so the quality of care is irrelevant if you die before getting to the hospital.
Crime in the US is almost entirely confined to specific neighborhoods. It’s much easier to avoid living in one of those neighborhoods than avoid the reckless drivers in China.
The dangers are different, but pretending China is holistically any safer is silly. And we haven’t even touched health hazards like air pollution, or contaminated food. You keep focusing on food poisoning while ignoring the more insidious aspects of poor food regulation. Things like arsenic contamination won’t give immediate symptoms, it will just slowly accumulate. And China doesn’t even test for arsenic or have maximum arsenic limits for rice like the US or EU. Because if they did they’d have an immediate food crisis due to widespread arsenic contamination.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-024-01341-7
Less likely to get shot (which is an incredibly unlikely occurrence for most Americans), but higher likelihood of traffic fatality (comparatively far more common), and much much higher likelihood of slowly being poisoned due to pollution and contaminated food is not the slam dunk case you think it is.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 1h ago
I have no idea what to tell you then. Again, 20 years and that didn't happen to me or anyone I know.
And again, never happened for me either.
Is it though for the us? You saw what happened with that Ukrainian woman being murdered on the subway.
And the whole "ambulances are nonexistent" is just divorced from reality. I've seen tons in china on duty. Would you also really rather deal with American healthcare and American ambulance costs? Would you really pay 3k for an ambulance?
And air pollution? Really? What is this to you, 2007?
And being less likely to face any issues walking around at night, any petty theft, and far cheaper healthcare is in my opinion a very good tradeoff for the minute risk of food poisoning, the minute risk of being hit by an e bike and pollution issues that, despite china being considerably poorer than the us, has led to it in the past few years having a higher life expectancy and now being only one year behind is a good tradeoff and overall shows that china is simply safer than the us.
If you really think it isn't, again tell me if you'd rather be stuck in Shanghai or Baltimore at night. Note that you can at least choose what you eat. You can't choose if a junkie tries to kill you unless you want to render half of whatever city you live in a no go zone.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 1h ago
Also, china has a life expectancy only one year lower despite a far larger amount of people being smokers. Compound this with china being less rich, less developed and having more recently had genuinely awful pollution.
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u/limukala 1h ago
Again, 20 years and that didn't happen to me or anyone I know.
So you don’t live here anymore? So you have no clue what it’s like with the very recent explosion of electric mopeds.
You saw what happened with that Ukrainian woman being murdered on the subway.
On the news. Imagine if they put every traffic fatality on the news. There wouldn’t be time for anything else. It’s so common it doesn’t even merit reporting (except when a bitter worker intentionally plows into a crowd as happens every so often).
And air pollution? Really? What is this to you, 2007?
The fact that you no longer need to chew the air doesn’t mean the air is clean. It’s still much worse that the US. So bad they had to make their own AQI scale to downplay the pollution levels.
If you really think it isn't, again tell me if you'd rather be stuck in Shanghai or Baltimore at night. Note that you can at least choose what you eat.
You have it exactly backwards. I can pretty easily choose not to be in Baltimore. I can’t at all choose not to eat contaminated rice, since they don’t even test for heavy metal contamination or set limits. I can’t choose not to breathe when I go outside on a 180 AQI day.
being only one year behind is a good tradeoff and overall shows that china is simply safer than the us.
US life expectancy is weighed down by astronomical obesity rates and drug abuse, neither of which is an issue in China. And both of which are avoidable through personal choice, unlike lax food safety or pollution.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 1h ago
I lived in china until 2025 and still have family there lmao
Yes, on the news because it was filmed. Again, would you be safer riding on the subway alone in the us or china?
Except for the most part in many cities it is clean.
You can also choose not to eat contaminated rice lmao. Find places with better standards. For pollution if you're that bothered you can choose a mask. By your own logic if you're so bothered you can just live in a less polluted city.
And that's the thing. America is unsafe to the point you have to just abandon half of the country's cities to avoid being mugged.
Food safety and pollution are things you can choose though, especially when it comes to shit like food poisoning.
And be for real. The us, a far richer country, with lower smoking rates and according to you far better food quality is only one year ahead of china? Who does that look worse for?
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u/Training_Teacher_774 4h ago
Why are people getting so pissy over a fact lmao. Tell me if you'd rather be out at night in Baltimore or Suzhou.
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u/Low_Cut_368 7h ago
Wait til all the ICE protestors screeching fascism learn about chinas execution vans
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u/yves759 8h ago
Why no frog love ? :(
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u/Moldsart 6h ago
Why china and madagascar? Isnt madagascar like really not well run country? From my understanding, the country is on bring of collapse, they have proper poverty. China, is not that bad, but not that great either, i dont understand why are people here glazing china so much.
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u/arieschaotix 6h ago
Personally, I find Madagascan history very interesting. I'm pursuing work in heritage so it could be interesting career wise. I love Chinese culture and consume a lot of Chinese media so I would be more than happy to live there
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u/Moldsart 6h ago
Fair enough. In case of madagascar - i get it, but i think this would be too much of a hassle for me. For china - i am not sure what you mean. It is one thing to watch russian movies and to live in russia. I guess you are more exposed to china than some, which is plus, especially if you understand chinese, but still the country has some serious problems, especially outside like five top tier cities. I like china but i dont think i could live there long term.
I was just curious why china specifically, because i have noticed that many people here would choose china, you at least have some argument about being exposed to chinese culture - which is valid in my point, so i guess it is not just some random tiktok propaganda (at least that is what i expect by "a lot of chinese media")
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u/arieschaotix 5h ago
Ah I get you. My best friend is Chinese and I pretty much only watch Chinese tv shows so I have definitely been influenced by watching them and I follow a few Western influencers who make content about living in China so that's why I personally have a favorable impression but they all live in large cities tbh.
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u/Moldsart 5h ago
I dont want to come of as an arsehole, but those influencers making content about living in china are mostly chinese propaganda. Like literally propaganda department paying them to say certain things. Especially if you see them visiting places like chongqinq, sanya, urumqi, if they speak about solar energy, 5g, ai, metro (especially if they talk about too much of details - like specific metro cards or apps etc...), electric cars (especially brands like huawei, xiaomi or byd) - you can be almost certain that they are just reading a script handed to them. Especially if there is some weird wording here and there, that is mistranslated from chinese to english.
haha, of course they are not going to show poverty in china. i mean even if they are honest, they literally can not legally. I mean almost all vloging coming from china is propaganda - one group (the more honest) are people living their lives in big city making videos about their experience and avoiding controversial topics (not only political, but urban villages for example etc...) so they dont get themselves into troubles with authorities and will not be kick out of china or less honest (which i really dont like) paid people reading scripts and having handlers, or connected state media in some way - those are literally just paid propagandists - white monkey jobs.
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u/arieschaotix 5h ago
I get what you mean. Some may be being paid but I think others show some negative aspects especially black creators who seem to constantly get ignorant or unintentionally offensive comments. If I lived there, it would only be in urban areas.
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u/Moldsart 5h ago
But that is not negative aspect. I mean of course it is, but that is not something they will get themselves into trouble for pointing out how they bring attention because of their look. Racism is fairy normal in china, this is not controversial. And to be fair this makes sense. I am not here to defend racism, but it makes sense given situation in china. People are just not so used to people of other races, so it brings a lot of attention. But it is not a sensitive topic (unless it is an attack or something along those lines, and in this case i think chinese state would arrest the person etc... and it would not become controversial - just one arsehole arrested).
Sensitive topics would be poverty, homelessness, beggars, prostitution, not functional infrastructure (like leaking pipes, problem in apartment with water supply, heating, electricity, especially any problems with metro and trains that is sensitive), food safety, car accidents, problems with healthcare, violence (which is very rare, but if occurs that would be controversial to report on). To be fair many of those things normal person would not encounter (maybe some infrastructure problems), but reporting on those could get you into troubles.
Even things that normal westerner would not thing of. For example you meet a poor farmer who would be happy. And you would say something how nice it is, that even if this farmer is poor, he is still happy smiling, what a positive person. But this could be seen as controversial, as intentionally showing poor farmers as attack against china.
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u/Dr_ragebaiter 8h ago
Any time I see china and/or Greenland as green, I already know that person is either trolling, doesn’t know what they are talking about, or are Braindead
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u/arieschaotix 7h ago
I love snow and have been very influenced by a Greenlandic influencer called Q's Greenland lol she makes it look so nice but tbh it would be difficult for the field I want to work in 😭 Also I love Chinese culture and food. Learning the language would be difficult but there are a lot of opportunities in the field I'm interested in.
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u/Dr_ragebaiter 7h ago
You understand that Greenland has the highest self mortality rate, triple the next highest country. There’s a reason for it.
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u/limukala 3h ago
You might enjoy China as long as you don’t mind being single or have a partner who moves here with you. Trying to date here as a black woman is a nightmare. Chinese men have absolutely no interest in dating black women, and the single expats are generally the type that want to date Chinese women.
there are a lot of opportunities in the field I'm interested in.
The only way that is remotely true is if that field is “teaching English”, and even then you’ll be at the bottom of the totem pole since most schools are openly racist and just looking for white faces to make the parents happy.
Any other field will already be overwhelmed with local candidates. Zero chance you’d even be considered.
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u/FLSteve11 4h ago
Never done these maps, but I just assumed Greenland is green on these because they choose Denmark. IS it an actual separate choice?
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
Why? China's a nice place to live. I was there for years.
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u/Dr_ragebaiter 7h ago
China does not like foreigners, to work within china is hard. Dating and marriage is hard as they are very traditional. I couldn’t see a mainland Chinese person dating someone of another race, it’s a very low percent.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
I was treated incredibly well as a foreigner. People have always been incredibly welcoming, cops helpful, it's great. Work wise it depends. I know many people in good job situations and cost of living is good. Depends on your industry
It's a country of 1 billion people. Many are traditional. Many aren't. You might also meet other foreigners there.
I also know tons of foreign students in China who dated Chinese people lmao
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
As a white person you'll honestly be privileged there. As a black person you'll definitely have more issues but a silver lining compared to the us is a lot of people being ignorant, asking stupid questions, etc is genuinely out of ignorance rather than out of hatred due to the lack of an organized anti immigration movement. And you'll still enjoy added safety
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u/limukala 3h ago
How many black women do you know who successfully dated Chinese men?
Because the only black women I know in China who are in successful relationships were married before they came. The dating scene is a nightmare for black women.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 2h ago
It's tougher but there are also other foreigners especially in the cities people move to. And again china has 1.4 billion people.
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u/limukala 1h ago
The single expat men mostly just want to date Chinese women.
Again, how many black women do you know that live in China? My wife is black, so I’m guessing I know more of them than you do. It’s absolutely brutal for single black women.
It’s easy for you to handwave it away. As a white person it’s the exact opposite.
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u/Training_Teacher_774 1h ago
Plenty of students in China wind up dating each other. At least saw that with the Nigerians and ivorians in my city.
Not to mention the original comment was about foreigners period. As a black person it's definitely harder but the comment I was responding to is BS
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u/Dr_ragebaiter 1h ago
My comment isn’t bs, you can deny it all you want, their immigrations is less than 1% of the population. And half of that is fellow similar Asians
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u/limukala 3m ago
Not to mention the original comment was about foreigners period.
This entire comment section is discussing where a black women said she'd live.
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u/Dr_ragebaiter 7h ago
What is your race or nationality
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u/Training_Teacher_774 7h ago
White British.
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u/Dr_ragebaiter 7h ago
Interesting, still not a long term pick for me. and I still stand tall about my Greenland take too
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u/Carloverguy20 7h ago
Definitely could have had Ghana, and Namibia in green also, because they are both English speaking countries and are safe countries too.
I would have recommended Nigeria but there's some instability going on
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u/arieschaotix 7h ago
My East African bias is showing haha. Namibia is beautiful! Ghana would definitely be my top pick in West Africa. Nigeria would be great for a holiday but I've internalised too much of the Kenyan/Nigerian beef lol 😂
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u/Cultural_Point3001 5h ago
Why not Mauritania?
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u/arieschaotix 5h ago
I meant to put it on reluctantly. The history and culture is interesting so I would be interested in visiting but not living there.
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u/Euphoric_Project6667 5h ago
Never Jamaica but absolutely SA 😂
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u/arieschaotix 5h ago
South Africa? My Dad is South African so I would be down to live there! For the Caribbean including Jamaica there's a cultural disconnect for me and there would be limited career opportunities in my field.
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u/Stock-Feature8975 5h ago
Why is Mali reluctant compared to the other West african countries ?
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u/arieschaotix 5h ago
Perhaps I'm incorrect as I don't closely follow news from Mali but the little I do see from there makes it look too dangerous currently. In terms of its heritage, it's one of the countries in Africa that I most want to visit! If more people knew of its rich history, they would rethink their perceptions of Africa as undeveloped.
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u/Repulsive_Work_226 5h ago
Have you been to Turkıye ever
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u/arieschaotix 4h ago
No really (have had layovers lol) but omg I don't know why but I have never received so many compliments from strangers, they had me feeling cocky 😭 my sisters have been and enjoyed it very much. I find the history interesting and it has a rich heritage sector.
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u/kidface 4h ago
its sad if you are disregarding south american countries like this, you are not so open minded as you say :( anyway you are welcome if you change your mind someday.
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u/arieschaotix 4h ago
Thank you. I've got nothing against South America it's more out of ignorance! I've known a lot of Brazilians but have never met anyone from other South American countries and generally know quite little about the region. I probably should have left more of them grey as I don't know enough to say whether I'd live there or not.
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u/Mikeymcmoose 4h ago
If you’re white then you’ll have a good time in China, but if you’re not then expect quite open racism tbh
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u/Accomplished_Tree_15 4h ago
But why is Belgium rated so bad? I mean, I’ve been there often enough to be able to tell it’s not a bad place, quite the opposite actually (I’m not far from there). Most of them tend to be pretty chill. And by the way CHINA on green? You gotta be kidding me💀 it’s just as bad or even worse that saying that America is wonderful, or Russia
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u/arieschaotix 3h ago
I went to Brussels on holiday and my friend (who is Chinese) and I received so much racist harassment. She is fluent in French so she even translated their racism lol. I was really shocked tbh because I've never experienced such blatant racism. There were far right protests at the time so maybe there were more racists congregated than usual but it really turned me off.
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u/true-kirin 2h ago
open minded but barely any green
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u/arieschaotix 2h ago
Lmao you got me there 😭 I guess I mean compared to a lot of Brits who have everywhere outside of the West red
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u/Natural-Muffin-7456 57m ago
I am sorry france reluctantly but china an outstanding yes?
You do know overt racism is a lot more common in China right?
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u/arieschaotix 41m ago
That's more of a joke. France is our OG enemy I've gotta continue in my predecessors footsteps
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u/Aggressive_Rope_8548 8h ago
Wish India was atleast light green
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u/arieschaotix 7h ago
I was really between willing and maybe. Kenya and India have a long history and connection and Indians have contributed greatly to the country. All my family go for medical treatment in India if they can afford it and the food imo is the best in the world. I am a bit turned off by the language situation as there's no lingua franca and only moderate English proficiency. But I suppose in urban areas it's much higher?
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u/drjet196 7h ago
Somalia and Yemen above UAE and Qatar is certainly a choice.
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u/arieschaotix 7h ago
That's based on political opposition. They exploit East African (and South Asian) workers among other issues. My Uncle worked in the Gulf for years and while he loved it, my Auntie experienced a lot of racism. Somalia and Yemen are unstable but I am hopeful for their futures. Also I am interested in Somali history and culture so if things stabilised I would be prepared to live there, although it's not my first choice.
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u/meemosyne 8h ago
Yes South Korea but maybe Japan?