Third world verses developed nations.
Rural US and Canada can be rough, but it is not as bad as the problems in other nations.
So large parts of the Midwest and Canada lack adequate cell phone coverage, broadband internet or a Starbucks on every corner, so what. Country living in large parts of the US and Canada is not all that oppressive. For many people who reject the material world of modern living the simplicity of rural life is a vanishing treasure.
The title is a bit broad for the scope of the article. Which seems to be focused on third world nations.
In a third world nation are you better off in a slum? might have been more accurate.
I would take living in the worst parts of rural US against living in the worst neighborhoods in Chicago any day.
And please, no cries of racism. It is an observation based on living conditions alone.
The simple fact is gun is needed for self protection in one place and can be used to hunt food in the other must be kept in mind.
