Keep up . . . the discussion is about SLUMS, not crime rate! Bouncing around the main point does not help whatever it is you are trying to prove here.

America remains the best country in the world for the black man! No question!

philip0906:

@kobo
paddy_lo doesn't even know what he is saying.The first thing he told me was dat he resides in america and so knows better.i was expecting "much" 4rm him according 2 his claims but behold Paddy_lo did not even know d difference btw a slum and a crime ridden area .I put a link 4rm wikipedia,guess what?He told me 2 discard what wikipedia  says

Jakumo:

If I were dirt poor and given a hypothetical choice, I would prefer living in the United States, in subsidised housing and on food stamps, over living in Nigeria amid a cramped and hellish maze of improvised tin shacks surrounded by open, malaria-mosquito breeding open sewers, with no option to feed myself than via street crime.

While medical coverage and social welfare benefits in America do lag far behind those of many European countries, particularly the Scandinavian ones, America's poor are INFINITELY better off than Nigeria's forgotten millions of slum-dwelling destitute famlies , who have nowhere safe to live and not even the slightest pretence of government assistance to seek. In other words, many examples of what qualify as "slums" in the United States are a definite step up from much of what Nigeria would call "middle class residential districts".

If I were dirt poor and given a hypothetical choice, I would prefer living in the United States, in subsidised housing and on food stamps, over living in Nigeria amid a cramped and hellish maze of improvised tin shacks surrounded by open, malaria-mosquito breeding open sewers, with no option to feed myself than via street crime.

philip0906:

@kobo
paddy_lo doesn't even know what he is saying.The first thing he told me was dat he resides in america and so knows better.i was expecting "much" 4rm him according 2 his claims but behold Paddy_lo did not even know d difference btw a slum and a crime ridden area .I put a link 4rm wikipedia,guess what?He told me 2 discard what wikipedia says

Jakumo:

If I were dirt poor and given a hypothetical choice, I would prefer living in the United States, in subsidised housing and on food stamps, over living in Nigeria amid a cramped and hellish maze of improvised tin shacks surrounded by open, malaria-mosquito breeding open sewers, with no option to feed myself than via street crime.

While medical coverage and social welfare benefits in America do lag far behind those of many European countries, particularly the Scandinavian ones, America's poor are INFINITELY better off than Nigeria's forgotten millions of slum-dwelling destitute famlies , who have nowhere safe to live and not even the slightest pretence of government assistance to seek. In other words, many examples of what qualify as "slums" in the United States are a definite step up from much of what Nigeria would call "middle class residential districts".

I happen to be, right now, in one of the WAR ZONES he continues to refer to and I wonder what the frell he means by trying to compare this place with any SLUM out there, let alone any real WAR ZONE. Imagine what an Afghan/Sudanese/Columbian/Somalian/Zimbabwean/South African would think right now of those articles

paddy_lo:

Ppl are getting murdered at double the rate of actual war-zones with helicopter gunships,tanks and all that and u are worried about d technical definition of slums

the point is that these areas of American cities are worse than slums,they are worse than war zones,Quality of life is zero
Diseases are rampant,there is death,crime and poverty. . .running wild

Keep living in the fools paradise

tpiah:

the power of confession.


some of you people seem to have lived in the slummiest parts of the country.

either that or your posts are based on bbc.

were you a resident of makoko before travelling abroad?

Jakumo:

If I were dirt poor and given a hypothetical choice, I would prefer living in the United States, in subsidised housing and on food stamps, over living in Nigeria amid a cramped and hellish maze of improvised tin shacks surrounded by malaria-mosquito breeding open sewers, with no option to feed myself than via street crime.

While medical coverage and social welfare benefits in America do lag far behind those of many European countries, particularly the Scandinavian ones, America's poor are INFINITELY better off than Nigeria's forgotten millions of slum-dwelling destitute famlies , who have nowhere safe to live and not even the slightest pretence of government assistance to seek.  In other words, many examples of what qualify as "slums" in the United States are a definite step up from much of what Nigeria would call "middle class residential districts".

tensor777:

By the way who wants to be on food-stamps for the rest of their life?