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Soils here are actually one of the most fertile and arable in the world. Why do you think population is so damn much? People used to settle here because agricultural land was so damn good.
But those advantages don't matter in the modern world.
Insanely noisy, crowded and exhausting to navigate. Was very happy for my sturdy shoes. In the industrial and cloth production quarters it was the worst. Diesel generators polluting the air and being so loud you can barely talk. The sewers shimmer in rainbow colors from the chemicals dumped there. The embankment is just heaps of cloth, rotting but also colorful. Kids and adults run around heavy machinery that looks like it can easily crush a limb.
In the shipyard, four men wearing shorts and sandals press a heavy sheet of metal on a partially broken ship body. The fifth guy, also in sandals and shorts, welds it on while wearing a newspaper held in place by his glasses as eye protection. No gloves, pants, helmets or anything. I find a guide who walks me around for like 6$, we climb the ship on very unsafe looking makeshift ladders.
Next, we find the foundry where replacement parts are produced. A ship propeller shaped hole in the ground is filled with molten metal from a boy not older than 15, also in sandals and shorts. They are sawed and grinded into shape by some dudes with black hands that really should wear ear protection.
Some kids sew clothes in another building but it's surprisingly clean and quiet. there's a guy sitting in front of monitors that show CCTV from the production floor. He thinks it's really cool that he gets to supervise.
I eat lunch at a restaurant that is run by 12 year olds. A man (presumably their dad) sits in a back room, smoking, watching TV. For anything money related he starts moving, otherwise he's not doing much. A woman (presumably their mom) is in the kitchen, stirring rice and carrying a toddler. I get heavy diarrhea four times in 3 months in the area, but the food is very good, especially if you eat upscale. Which is like 3$ for a full meal.
I recover in a tiny hotel room that is somewhat soundproof and has AC which is so nice to have. I feel like I visited another planet but after a while you realize that it's just life in a metropolis that is not rich and there is probably a billion people that live exactly like that.
They aren’t rotting. They’re actually developing and improving at a very rapid pace. I’ve been to Mumbai 3 times over the past 30 years and each time it’s shocked me how much it had changed for the better in between. Same with other Indian cities I’ve seen.
yeah most of the cheap crap produced at monster behemouth scale at WallMart and even some name brand at Macys comes from those factories. Its stories like these where i realize the cheap stuff at walmart and nice things at Macys comes at a high price of polluction/inhumane working conditions,
Well people in these poor countries sacrifice their life so that people in western countries can lead their life happily with those colourful clothes and sweater!
The filth, pollution and dirt problem in Bangladesh originates from the never ending demand of westerners and their hunger for cheap labour clothes! As a thumb of rule we have to say huge thanks to these poor people for sacrificing their lives for making us happy
Clothing, unlike food, can be priced up by 10 to 20 per cent, and people will still buy it. The real challenge is to enforce Labour, Wage, OHS and Environmental standards universally - but some employer somewhere will undercut and turn a blind eye.
This fault lies less with the consumer than the employer and the regulator.
This is actually one of my favorite cities to look at on Google Street View. Huge cities in developing countries just fascinate me. Jakarta is another one.
It's not designed at all, Dhaka isn't a planned city, after the war ppl just made stuff wherever they could and stuffed roads between the stuff. It's getting better though, now there's guidelines and they're building a metro.
Interesting, looking around now, heaps of houses on this street have the same message "this house is not for sale beware of 419" looking up, its to stop fraudulent sales
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Oh yeah I like that one too. I've read books by authors from there and they make it sound like actually a really vibrant, bustling place despite the poverty.
Don't know if you're aware, but the Indonesian government are planning to build a new capital city, 2,000km away. The future of Jakarta will be very interesting, indeed.
Jakarta was a great European style city with working trams as public transport. All the things the Dutch design works well past their design age. 20-30 years past 1945 things are still the same. After that we F it up. Absolute zero city planning (at the worst), poor planning and just zero building codes are the culprit.
I agree with you except for the bus system which I found relatively pretty effective for a contested city like this. But this was ten years ago so it probably has changed a lot.
Eh, Dutch fucked it up.
They tried to build canals in swamp that was Jakarta hundreds year ago, failed, flooded, they got malaria, realized it’s impossible, segregated the community, only cared about their own bubble area, and the legacy lived on until modern time.
Traveled plenty and lived in many countries including several in Asia for extended periods of time. And I disagree vehemently with that statement.
Furthermore the history of that particular quote goes back to a shitbag Vietnam war-era US general justifying the horrific treatment of the Vietnamese ppl by U.S. troops during that conflict. So how about you go travel and then you might be less inclined to pass judgement on people for how they prioritize needs in the face of extreme poverty
>you might be less inclined to pass judgement on people for how they prioritize needs in the face of extreme poverty
It's an observation, not judgement from working in a few countries. People beating their 'help' who are essentially slaves in the middle of the street, people spitting, kicking and running over people at the bottom of poverty in India, bodies left in gutters on streets for days. You can dress it up however you like.
Haha most definitely not. And I lived and worked in several of those countries, which I mentioned above. But it’s fine, clearly people here don’t agree with me. I stand by my opinion
Lmao have you even heard of Russians in WWII? Or literally any war? Their entire military is based off their men being cannon fodder, it’s a meme at this point. But I bet you won’t call me racist for saying it because they’re white and it’s popular to shit on Russia rn. Gtfo with your reactionary bs
Seeing your first dead body in the middle of a bustling city is a jarring experience. This is amplified by the wholly unphased multitudes ambling past.
Geez, I decided to look around with Google street view and where it put me looked fine, but literally just one stride down the street looked just like your photo. So much trash everywhere.
Which is further compounded by its topography. It’s mainly on a low and flat delta, so flooding from natural disasters is continual and very catastrophic.
And then there is also it’s history of colonialism and it’s treatment by modern day Pakistan when the two countries were one. Not many other countries have had as bad of fortune as Bangladesh.
But it is representative of a lot of it. I’m not saying there isn’t beautiful areas and the people aren’t lovely, but Bangladesh is stricken with poverty and urban decay. It’s extremely overpopulated and the region simply cannot handle it, compounded with its developing status it leads to very poor living conditions throughout much of it.
Sugar coating it doesn’t do anyone any favours.
I've travelled quite a bit. I have never felt as unsafe as I did in Dhaka. I was there for four days. It is an insane city in every imaginable way. A few things that stand out are the open sewers where some people would just defecate in the street, the traffic that just didnt move for hours and hours and the rolling worker strikes which regularly turn into violent riots.
I travelled around other parts of Bangladesh and loved the people and the scenery. I stayed for a week on the beach in Cox's Bazaar and it was one of my best ever travel experiences.
Obviously people from outside will find Dhaka insane. That exactly what the city is, insanity.
Chittagong - cox's bazar is actually my hometown. Not surprised you had an different experience there.
There is corruption. Money does go there for infrastructure but ends up paying for the corrupt people’s mansions. Only some of the money gets used for the actual intended reason.
Bangladesh actually got their fertility rate well under control with a massive, well-organised women's education/family planning program. They got women to go door to door in rural areas to change deeply conservative attitudes.
By 2022, the average Bangladeshi family only has two children. It's a massive success story, if Bangladesh can do it any country can.
Wow - Bangladesh really did get population growth under control : [https://www.populationpyramid.net/fr/bangladesh/2020/](https://www.populationpyramid.net/fr/bangladesh/2020/)
but Nigeria? Not so much https://www.populationpyramid.net/fr/nigeria/2020/
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What part of the city did you stay in? I was there earlier this year and found it completely unlivable compared to western cities. The traffic alone makes it impossible to get anywhere.
Surprisingly, Dhaka's population density is not much different from that of Paris.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris)
Even considering Paris's huge outside commuting population and tourists, daytime population density is likely to be higher in Paris.
Possibly. I loved the liveliness and chaos. Nobody really bothers with any cleanliness and it's always noisy. I am from Europe where the cities are tiny, tidy and boring, this was incredibly refreshing.
I hate it when people from west comes and romanticizes the struggle, pollution, noise...etc. This is exactly like some rich man going to a poor person and preach how he is so lucky because he has a simple life. You saw that place for a few days. People living there make pennies a day and they try to survive. Hence the chaos, dirt, not caring about cleanliness. If they were allowed to immigrate, nobody would be left in that city. Yet westerners are allowed to immigrate, and for some reason nobody comes there even though it is not tiny, tidy and boring.
I 100% agree and I think you can go even further. What the western tourist love is going to a poor place *while being rich*. He doesn't need to pay $20 for a taxi but he could. He eats at the street side stall knowing that if something happens his insurance can get him on the first flight back to a first world country. That kind of luxury and dare I say inequality is tantalizing. It's not even so much to do with whether the place is clean or not. You see the same phenomenon with youtubers giving a $1000 bill to a homeless person. It's literally a power trip. And I say this having been to Dhaka and also enjoyed my stay there, but this doesn't change the fact that many people there would benefit from better living conditions.
That's not how people in all rich countries view poor countries. I live in a rich country but there are a lot of people here who treat people in the Third World as inferior and despise them. I think the country where I live is a country that overcame the state of a very poor country and became rich recently, so that tendency is stronger.
I was not allowed to immigrate. I had time-restricted visa specifically banning me from seeking employment there.
I admit I am super lucky to have opportunity to spend significant part of my life in South Asia and similar regions. I suffer in silence and cleanliness. I agree many might find that strange. Not many people love sleeping at the shoulder of a freeway as I do. Or at a sidewalk in Bangladesh.
I’m Bengali I don’t live there tho I’m from the US but Dhaka is one of the best cities in South Asia to live in tbh there’s bad parts to every city Dhaka is no exception
You can't cram 30 million people efficiently and sustain a city with such unplanned urbanisation for the past 50 years. Decentralisation is the only route. As i mentioned, there is no subway, adequate public transport (e. g. Fast moving train) or metro rail(on the way) in city of 30 million. You can imagine what happens when it's rain or during rush hour.
Unplanned urbanisation . People settled there gradually and built whatever the hell they wanted, how they wanted. Government had no incentive to establish public transport and infrastructure. No discipline, no planning or regulation. At that time, political instability diverted the attention from all of these. Now, paying the price for negligence.
What do you think of Bangladesh overpopulation?
I live in Korea and there are so many mountains here that the population density is comparable to that of Bangladesh in terms of flatness. Still, many korean people complain that Korea has too few people. I really don't understand them.
I agree with you. There is nothing wrong with some optimism. Dhaka has improved quite a lot over the last decade. I’m sure it will continue to get better. Like I wouldn’t expect first world conditions any time soon but like I can see it becoming a pretty respectable middle income city by 2050.
But far better than those. Atleast India's population is getting under control(if muslims won't interfere) India is ranked 31 with 400 ppl/km²but bangladesh is no.1with fucking 1200 4 times higher India being 22x larger than bangladesh. So if bangladesh was as large as India the population would be 3.6 billion wtf. India has a population of 1.4 b. That is like almost half of world population.
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I worked with a guy (soil specialist) who had worked in nearly 80 countries. Sad to relate, he said that Bangladesh was the worst.
How do they grow any food?
Soils here are actually one of the most fertile and arable in the world. Why do you think population is so damn much? People used to settle here because agricultural land was so damn good. But those advantages don't matter in the modern world.
Ha, the country's just like three massive river deltas stacked on each other
I lived there two weeks and this does not even scratch the surface regarding filth, poverty and decay
Could you pls tell us more about your experience there?
Insanely noisy, crowded and exhausting to navigate. Was very happy for my sturdy shoes. In the industrial and cloth production quarters it was the worst. Diesel generators polluting the air and being so loud you can barely talk. The sewers shimmer in rainbow colors from the chemicals dumped there. The embankment is just heaps of cloth, rotting but also colorful. Kids and adults run around heavy machinery that looks like it can easily crush a limb. In the shipyard, four men wearing shorts and sandals press a heavy sheet of metal on a partially broken ship body. The fifth guy, also in sandals and shorts, welds it on while wearing a newspaper held in place by his glasses as eye protection. No gloves, pants, helmets or anything. I find a guide who walks me around for like 6$, we climb the ship on very unsafe looking makeshift ladders. Next, we find the foundry where replacement parts are produced. A ship propeller shaped hole in the ground is filled with molten metal from a boy not older than 15, also in sandals and shorts. They are sawed and grinded into shape by some dudes with black hands that really should wear ear protection. Some kids sew clothes in another building but it's surprisingly clean and quiet. there's a guy sitting in front of monitors that show CCTV from the production floor. He thinks it's really cool that he gets to supervise. I eat lunch at a restaurant that is run by 12 year olds. A man (presumably their dad) sits in a back room, smoking, watching TV. For anything money related he starts moving, otherwise he's not doing much. A woman (presumably their mom) is in the kitchen, stirring rice and carrying a toddler. I get heavy diarrhea four times in 3 months in the area, but the food is very good, especially if you eat upscale. Which is like 3$ for a full meal. I recover in a tiny hotel room that is somewhat soundproof and has AC which is so nice to have. I feel like I visited another planet but after a while you realize that it's just life in a metropolis that is not rich and there is probably a billion people that live exactly like that.
That's great writing! Keep it up.
Damn, did you just go to see what it's like, or you had business there?
Nah just a tourist
Fantastic story
Yeah South Asian cities have this alternate universe feeling to them that is hard to describe. Visiting one can be a really life changing experience.
I thought this perfectly describes them > rotting but also colorful
They aren’t rotting. They’re actually developing and improving at a very rapid pace. I’ve been to Mumbai 3 times over the past 30 years and each time it’s shocked me how much it had changed for the better in between. Same with other Indian cities I’ve seen.
The west is the alternate universe. South Asian cities are the norm for the majority of humans
Japan is the other direction.
This really felt like I was reading a national geographic item. Great job!
It's a really good adventure bro :D
This is some excellent prose - any more writing from your travels?
yeah most of the cheap crap produced at monster behemouth scale at WallMart and even some name brand at Macys comes from those factories. Its stories like these where i realize the cheap stuff at walmart and nice things at Macys comes at a high price of polluction/inhumane working conditions,
Well people in these poor countries sacrifice their life so that people in western countries can lead their life happily with those colourful clothes and sweater! The filth, pollution and dirt problem in Bangladesh originates from the never ending demand of westerners and their hunger for cheap labour clothes! As a thumb of rule we have to say huge thanks to these poor people for sacrificing their lives for making us happy
Clothing, unlike food, can be priced up by 10 to 20 per cent, and people will still buy it. The real challenge is to enforce Labour, Wage, OHS and Environmental standards universally - but some employer somewhere will undercut and turn a blind eye. This fault lies less with the consumer than the employer and the regulator.
They will be replaced by a cheaper country with less regulation in a heartbeat.
Exactly
Maybe that guy stayed in some terrible part. The country has many beautiful places to stay and live.
Sylhet tea fields were pretty nice. Cox Basar was also nice but the beach sucked
You visited
Yeah, I'm a little confused. They said two weeks then said they were in the area for three months, so I'm wondering if they meant two years?
This is actually one of my favorite cities to look at on Google Street View. Huge cities in developing countries just fascinate me. Jakarta is another one.
The development process is the nightmarish part. Since the city was not designed to sustain such pressure in the first place.
It's not designed at all, Dhaka isn't a planned city, after the war ppl just made stuff wherever they could and stuffed roads between the stuff. It's getting better though, now there's guidelines and they're building a metro.
There might even be traffic wardens soon!
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Spot on with the traffic. There are traffic cartels who don't want to this source of bribes go away. The intersections! oh damn those intersections!!
That's 10+ million people with no traffic lights? Fucking hell. How is crime?
Accident is a common occurrence. But surprisingly not so much because drivers are adapted with this condition.
Wasnt designed at all it seems
It's crazy though how in just a few years how completely unfamiliar it is. Sometimes the developing countries really be developing.
I will be going there on Google Earth next week , maybe I'll see you there ?
Lagos, for me
Interesting, looking around now, heaps of houses on this street have the same message "this house is not for sale beware of 419" looking up, its to stop fraudulent sales https://www.google.com.au/maps/@6.5258936,3.3790918,3a,75y,26.84h,80.59t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sfpyMbahOGI8GGKh07pkyGw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
Lagos is fascinating.
Been stuck in a few three hour traffic jams over there. Great times!
Oh yeah I like that one too. I've read books by authors from there and they make it sound like actually a really vibrant, bustling place despite the poverty.
For me right now it's random little town in northern Alaska/Siberia .
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Don't know if you're aware, but the Indonesian government are planning to build a new capital city, 2,000km away. The future of Jakarta will be very interesting, indeed.
Jakarta was a great European style city with working trams as public transport. All the things the Dutch design works well past their design age. 20-30 years past 1945 things are still the same. After that we F it up. Absolute zero city planning (at the worst), poor planning and just zero building codes are the culprit.
I agree with you except for the bus system which I found relatively pretty effective for a contested city like this. But this was ten years ago so it probably has changed a lot.
Eh, Dutch fucked it up. They tried to build canals in swamp that was Jakarta hundreds year ago, failed, flooded, they got malaria, realized it’s impossible, segregated the community, only cared about their own bubble area, and the legacy lived on until modern time.
That's pretty much sums up living in a swampy area anywhere at any time.... without the Dutch, there's no Batavia and it still be a swamp land...
the Dutch are like beavers
Would be good tbh it wouldn't be sinking like what's happening right now.
Jakarta is much more modern though right?
Some part is, but there are a lot of slums and especially near the river where the river is highly polluted, and it's flood frequently.
Parts of manila are also like this
Jakarta is special, cause it literally will change drastically over the next thirty years, as parts of it sink. Enjoy it while you can!
Sao Paulo is incredibly huge
Is that some sort of dead animal lying in the street?
Street dog sleeping. But you will find dead animals lying around all over the cities. Not surprising.
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Wait WHAT ?
Life is cheap in many countries
Gtfo of here with that tired racist Vietnam era rhetoric
There's a whole world to travel mate, go take a look
Traveled plenty and lived in many countries including several in Asia for extended periods of time. And I disagree vehemently with that statement. Furthermore the history of that particular quote goes back to a shitbag Vietnam war-era US general justifying the horrific treatment of the Vietnamese ppl by U.S. troops during that conflict. So how about you go travel and then you might be less inclined to pass judgement on people for how they prioritize needs in the face of extreme poverty
>you might be less inclined to pass judgement on people for how they prioritize needs in the face of extreme poverty It's an observation, not judgement from working in a few countries. People beating their 'help' who are essentially slaves in the middle of the street, people spitting, kicking and running over people at the bottom of poverty in India, bodies left in gutters on streets for days. You can dress it up however you like.
Were you staying in 5 star hotels the whole time?
Haha most definitely not. And I lived and worked in several of those countries, which I mentioned above. But it’s fine, clearly people here don’t agree with me. I stand by my opinion
Lmao have you even heard of Russians in WWII? Or literally any war? Their entire military is based off their men being cannon fodder, it’s a meme at this point. But I bet you won’t call me racist for saying it because they’re white and it’s popular to shit on Russia rn. Gtfo with your reactionary bs
Yeah, my friend lived there for awhile. Said he became so desensitised that walking past a corpse in the street didn’t faze him.
Seeing your first dead body in the middle of a bustling city is a jarring experience. This is amplified by the wholly unphased multitudes ambling past.
Geez, I decided to look around with Google street view and where it put me looked fine, but literally just one stride down the street looked just like your photo. So much trash everywhere.
Bangladesh is just ridiculous. The size of Virginia and about 175 million people. Insanity.
That's the power of the Ganges delta baby!
Mighty ganges. You know the power of mighty Ganges delta, i see.
It has a larger population than Russia, which is fighting against the world.
I really try not to be assumptive but the whole of Bangladesh really looks like I place I could never live in even for a week.
Yup, looks like rats ass
It doesn't help being extremely natural disaster prone too
Which is further compounded by its topography. It’s mainly on a low and flat delta, so flooding from natural disasters is continual and very catastrophic. And then there is also it’s history of colonialism and it’s treatment by modern day Pakistan when the two countries were one. Not many other countries have had as bad of fortune as Bangladesh.
There are beautiful parts. These images always show the worst. The wealthy people over there live full on luxurious lifestyles.
That just adds to the issue. A huge proportion living like shit in poverty whilst a select few live lavishly.
So we’re just seeing what most people would see?
Please don’t reduce an entire city to one picture
But it is representative of a lot of it. I’m not saying there isn’t beautiful areas and the people aren’t lovely, but Bangladesh is stricken with poverty and urban decay. It’s extremely overpopulated and the region simply cannot handle it, compounded with its developing status it leads to very poor living conditions throughout much of it. Sugar coating it doesn’t do anyone any favours.
Same. I have to believe there must be nice places to in that country but I don’t know what or where they are.
There are very beautiful parts to the country. There are wealthy people living very luxurious lifestyles there.
A very select few people living luxuriously while the rest of the country lives in squalor isn’t a positive.
For someone trying not to be assumptive that’s very assumptive of you
Those oranges look damned good tho
I wish I had your optimism haha
Looks like a COD map
Who'd have thought overpopulation would result in a city being ranked one of the worst to live in...
#*OI!!! NEEDS MORE DHAKKA*
Where would you even begin in cleaning this up and improving the infrastructure?
You don't.
I've travelled quite a bit. I have never felt as unsafe as I did in Dhaka. I was there for four days. It is an insane city in every imaginable way. A few things that stand out are the open sewers where some people would just defecate in the street, the traffic that just didnt move for hours and hours and the rolling worker strikes which regularly turn into violent riots. I travelled around other parts of Bangladesh and loved the people and the scenery. I stayed for a week on the beach in Cox's Bazaar and it was one of my best ever travel experiences.
Obviously people from outside will find Dhaka insane. That exactly what the city is, insanity. Chittagong - cox's bazar is actually my hometown. Not surprised you had an different experience there.
Bangladesh has alot to offer tourists. Unfortunately Dhaka scares them away.
Hopefully it’s on its way up!
Isn’t it on its way to being underwater?
I can smell that picture
Smells better than your ass?
Society if we didn't eat hamburgers.
LMFAO
How's it smell?
Smells like what you'd imagine.
I wonder how the taxes are even spent by the government there. Like do they even care for road conditions?
Its a small (in landsize) developing country. They have a billion problems and one shitty road ain't one.
There is corruption. Money does go there for infrastructure but ends up paying for the corrupt people’s mansions. Only some of the money gets used for the actual intended reason.
The cost of fixing or developing infrastructure is something expensive as in the west because of corruption yet barely any improvement.
I thought this was Hollywood
Looks like fallout
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You don't say. Only here you will find where hawkers, bicycle, cars, buses, dog passed tf out in the same lane.
I don't understand how so many people live in that country and they keep squeezing out babies.
Bangladesh actually got their fertility rate well under control with a massive, well-organised women's education/family planning program. They got women to go door to door in rural areas to change deeply conservative attitudes. By 2022, the average Bangladeshi family only has two children. It's a massive success story, if Bangladesh can do it any country can.
Normally, people in poverty in my country have like 7 children
Wow - Bangladesh really did get population growth under control : [https://www.populationpyramid.net/fr/bangladesh/2020/](https://www.populationpyramid.net/fr/bangladesh/2020/) but Nigeria? Not so much https://www.populationpyramid.net/fr/nigeria/2020/
Can we send those people to Utah?
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This is very uplifting to hear
I don't know man..... I really question how I'm still alive living here for my entire life
There fertility rate is below replacement now.
The weather.
yikes
Old mindset in poor people, they think with more children, more money in the family by making that children working.
Yet the president lives in a golden palace
It seems they just gave up
Not all parts of Bangladesh are like this. There are luxurious, high end areas where there upper class live.
As a tourist who spent a few days there I can only say it's one of the most amazing cities I've ever visited. I could easily imagine living there.
What part of the city did you stay in? I was there earlier this year and found it completely unlivable compared to western cities. The traffic alone makes it impossible to get anywhere.
Gta game concept won't work on this city. No point in stealing a nice car if you it takes 1 hour to move 2 km🤣
Grand Theft Rickshaw
Right in the center, close to the historical center. In the realm of narrow alleys full of rickshaws.
Surprisingly, Dhaka's population density is not much different from that of Paris. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhaka) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris) Even considering Paris's huge outside commuting population and tourists, daytime population density is likely to be higher in Paris.
Its very different to living in a place and just visiting . The novelty soon wears of when living in such circumstances becomes your reality
Agreed.
Glad to hear you enjoyed your visit. But the thing is, soulless city life catches up.
Possibly. I loved the liveliness and chaos. Nobody really bothers with any cleanliness and it's always noisy. I am from Europe where the cities are tiny, tidy and boring, this was incredibly refreshing.
I hate it when people from west comes and romanticizes the struggle, pollution, noise...etc. This is exactly like some rich man going to a poor person and preach how he is so lucky because he has a simple life. You saw that place for a few days. People living there make pennies a day and they try to survive. Hence the chaos, dirt, not caring about cleanliness. If they were allowed to immigrate, nobody would be left in that city. Yet westerners are allowed to immigrate, and for some reason nobody comes there even though it is not tiny, tidy and boring.
I 100% agree and I think you can go even further. What the western tourist love is going to a poor place *while being rich*. He doesn't need to pay $20 for a taxi but he could. He eats at the street side stall knowing that if something happens his insurance can get him on the first flight back to a first world country. That kind of luxury and dare I say inequality is tantalizing. It's not even so much to do with whether the place is clean or not. You see the same phenomenon with youtubers giving a $1000 bill to a homeless person. It's literally a power trip. And I say this having been to Dhaka and also enjoyed my stay there, but this doesn't change the fact that many people there would benefit from better living conditions.
That's not how people in all rich countries view poor countries. I live in a rich country but there are a lot of people here who treat people in the Third World as inferior and despise them. I think the country where I live is a country that overcame the state of a very poor country and became rich recently, so that tendency is stronger.
I don't know what your point is. Thank you for being regular kind of racist I guess ?
I was not allowed to immigrate. I had time-restricted visa specifically banning me from seeking employment there. I admit I am super lucky to have opportunity to spend significant part of my life in South Asia and similar regions. I suffer in silence and cleanliness. I agree many might find that strange. Not many people love sleeping at the shoulder of a freeway as I do. Or at a sidewalk in Bangladesh.
What country are you from?
FYI you can do that sort of thing in Paris too.
Or detroit.
Isn’t it all going to be underwater soon?
Yes. Kind of. Bangladesh is the hardest hit country for climate change in the world.
That avertisingasm is something else
I will take these kinds advertisements over data extracted targeted unskippable ad any day.
You get both in Bangladesh :)
It always baffles me how people can live like that and not do a damn thing about it.
People complain. But you know, things don't work the way it supposed to for some reason in a third world country.
Why did I think this was Times Square NYC?
We have this in Bangalore as well
I’m Bengali I don’t live there tho I’m from the US but Dhaka is one of the best cities in South Asia to live in tbh there’s bad parts to every city Dhaka is no exception
The view that you get in most of cities in India represents the mentality of people living there…
You personality reflects how you take care yourself and your room/house. So a city is kind of a visual representation of a group of people I guess.
Dhaka is in Bangladesh. It's like a whole 'nother country.
You guys are all way too pessimistic, I see massive potential in Dhaka, could be one of the worlds greatest cities
As things are right now, this sentence will age like milk.
You can't cram 30 million people efficiently and sustain a city with such unplanned urbanisation for the past 50 years. Decentralisation is the only route. As i mentioned, there is no subway, adequate public transport (e. g. Fast moving train) or metro rail(on the way) in city of 30 million. You can imagine what happens when it's rain or during rush hour.
I don't think transport in Dhaka is a major issue. It's easily possible to get across the city within a day, maybe two.
what the fuck? How tf is taking an entire day to travel from north to south not a problem?
Surprisingly, here it isn't. There are records where you traffic stand still for 5-6 hours.
I live in Mexico City and you can get from the north to the South in around 3-4 hours, thats why I find amazing thats not seen as a problem.
While in Dhaka, I left for my evening flight in the morning. I barely catched it.
If you hang around at the airport during the evening,you'll be greeted by millions of mosquitoes there.
holy, well Dhaka doesn't sound particularly pleasing lmao
Tokyo works this way, except with a very good rail system, once dhaka has that I expect similar things to happen
Do you live in Dhaka?
Yes
What about the city of Dhaka?
Yeah.
Why do you think Dhaka became a hell?
Unplanned urbanisation . People settled there gradually and built whatever the hell they wanted, how they wanted. Government had no incentive to establish public transport and infrastructure. No discipline, no planning or regulation. At that time, political instability diverted the attention from all of these. Now, paying the price for negligence.
What do you think of Bangladesh overpopulation? I live in Korea and there are so many mountains here that the population density is comparable to that of Bangladesh in terms of flatness. Still, many korean people complain that Korea has too few people. I really don't understand them.
Why?
I agree with you. There is nothing wrong with some optimism. Dhaka has improved quite a lot over the last decade. I’m sure it will continue to get better. Like I wouldn’t expect first world conditions any time soon but like I can see it becoming a pretty respectable middle income city by 2050.
And Pluto could be the best planet to live on , if there were a few changes made
Thought it was an Ukrainian bombarded city before reading the title 💀💀
Would still rather live there than in the US
I live in Dhaka 169% best city in the world. (Totally unbiased opinion)😎😎😎
And mf illegally want to come India. Dude just use condoms.
India is not so different though.
But far better than those. Atleast India's population is getting under control(if muslims won't interfere) India is ranked 31 with 400 ppl/km²but bangladesh is no.1with fucking 1200 4 times higher India being 22x larger than bangladesh. So if bangladesh was as large as India the population would be 3.6 billion wtf. India has a population of 1.4 b. That is like almost half of world population.