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Living in a Third World country (aka The United States)

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http://www.hud.gov/local/shared/working/groups/frmwrkcoln/photo.cfm?state=az

Someone's home in Arizona:

http://www.hud.gov/local/shared/working/groups/frmwrkcoln/fwphoto3.cfm?state=az

Someone's home in California:

http://www.hud.gov/local/shared/working/groups/frmwrkcoln/imperial.cfm?state=az

Someone's home in Arizona:

http://www.hud.gov/local/shared/working/groups/frmwrkcoln/fwphoto1.cfm?state=az

A communal toilet in Texas:

http://www.seco.cpa.state.tx.us/Photos/re_colonias-toilet.jpg

Quite shocking, isn't? If I had not told you where these pictures were taken (and removed the US flag from the first one), most of you would have thought that they may have been taken in Burkina Faso, the second poorest country in the world; a country I worked in for a few months.

Someone's house in Burkina Faso, near Bobo-Dioulasso: (note: electricity provided by two car batteries; no running water nor sewage system; interestingly, this house seems to be in better shape than those shown above)

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Amazing, but not surprising by Scott Baker on Sunday, Jan 3, 2010 at 2:07:08 PM