Should try Nigeria! I worked there for around 6 months in Lagos, Victoria Island.

Very dangerous, especially after dark, not the locals so much but the police, they make the Thai cops look like boy scouts.!

On 6/27/2025 at 6:16 AM, Chomper Higgot said:

Saudi Arabia is among the places I’ve lived and worked, way higher on the ‘would I go again’ than some other places I‘ve lived and worked.

My time in Jeddah in particular was a very positive experience.

 

 

KSA is in general a very safe place to live and work, you can walk around at 2 am and nothing is gonna happen to you!

Havana, Cuba is by far the worst city in the world. 

 

You'll be welcomed by a cuban guy tailing you to see if he can persuade you to go to specific restaurant so he gets a sack of rice.

 

Looking around nothing but housing that's falling apart, with people that have dead eyes looking from out of the ruins.

 

A worse place than Havana? Perhaps Harlow in the UK now.

On 6/27/2025 at 9:06 AM, JonnyF said:

 

I almost got into a fight within an hour of landing in LA because the rude, unhelpful taxi driver deemed my tip insufficient after I had unloaded my own bags from the boot of his smelly car.

 

Like most of California, ruined by "Progressives".  

 

How do you know his politics? 

4 hours ago, RuamRudy said:

 

How do you know his politics? 

 

I don't.

 

I never mentioned his politics. 

20 minutes ago, JonnyF said:

 

I don't.

 

I never mentioned his politics. 

 

But you wrote this, "Like most of California, ruined by "Progressives". "

 

What did you mean with that line of not a comment on his politics? 

2 minutes ago, RuamRudy said:

 

But you wrote this, "Like most of California, ruined by "Progressives". "

 

What did you mean with that line of not a comment on his politics? 

 

It was a comment on the state of LA.

 

Not this particular taxi driver.

 

Read it again when you're sober. 

Just now, JonnyF said:

 

It was a comment on the state of LA.

 

Not this particular taxi driver.

 

Read it again when you're sober. 

 

So totally unrelated to the thread or even your own post, just an inconsequential non sequitor. It's not me who's on the sauce. 

1 minute ago, RuamRudy said:

 

So totally unrelated to the thread or even your own post, just an inconsequential non sequitor. It's not me who's on the sauce. 

 

How is it unrelated to the thread when we are discussing unwelcoming cities?

 

Of course LA offers a rotten greeting, it's full of bitter self loathing sneering Liberals like yourself.

 

Was the taxi driver one of them? No idea... But it's quite possible his desperation was caused by being taxed to oblivion by the doomsday cult for daring to drive a car or earn an honest living.

3 hours ago, JonnyF said:

 

How is it unrelated to the thread when we are discussing unwelcoming cities?

 

Of course LA offers a rotten greeting, it's full of bitter self loathing sneering Liberals like yourself.

 

Was the taxi driver one of them? No idea... But it's quite possible his desperation was caused by being taxed to oblivion by the doomsday cult for daring to drive a car or earn an honest living.

 

Or might it be that most people who meet you for the first time find you objectionable? I suspect that's closer to the truth. 

I have knocked around southern SA a bit, but I've never been to Bolivia.  Travelers' stories nearly all mention how unwelcome they felt there.  I recall a Dutch gal who had tears in her eyes recounting her experiences: "why do they treat me like that, I did nothing to them!"

Ecuador is another one I've given a pass on, but I did want to see the Galapagos.  I researched it about 15 years ago and unfortunately that country's crime had spread to the islands, or so it was being reported.  Oh well.

 

I like this topic because it counters the typical travel articles about the best, like "which countries have the best salt shakers" etc.

 

On 6/29/2025 at 4:41 PM, Cameroni said:

A worse place than Havana? Perhaps Harlow in the UK now.

 

OMG I lived on the edge of Harlow Essex, the people were OK and the town nice and new back then, has it changed that much since I left in 1978......

 

For over the top danger try Yemin, I was once held up on the road between Sanna and Taiz by six guys high on ghat each armed with the traditional jambiya  curved, dagger and AK47s backed up by a tank of all things.  

 

Even the Hilton coffee shop in Sanaa has holes in the ceiling from locals letting off their weapons.

 

Even more danger came my way on the flight back to Sharjah when the engine above me on the Yemen air 727 kept compressor stalling and backfiring and missing all the way back to the UAE.....  

 

 

57 minutes ago, Rimmer said:

has it changed that much since I left in 1978......

 

It's now a dystopian fried chicken city centre, most shops are boarded up. The worst place I've been to after Havanna.

 

I wouldn't go to the Middle East or Africa. That's just asking for it. 

and all who believe those morrons are even more brain death