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I've Never Felt Safe in a Slum Amobi
Rio is an odd city in that the distance between the poor and the rich is much less than i've ever seen anywhere else. I spent a day at the house of one of the richest people i've ever known, and he couldn't have been more than 50 yards from a favella. He had original calder mobiles inside the house, and he had barbed wire and big brick alls and armed guards on the outside of the house. So i think these areas appear to have relatively well functioning social systems that basically protect their own. But also exists in some parts of africa. India also has this proximity, but it doesn't have the same danger as an americ