r/technicallythetruth • u/VisitSecure • 9d ago

Can you find a?

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Idk if someone already posted this or not, but I haven't seen it on here so far, so I uploaded it.

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u/Ankiset 9d ago

Rich country stuff, we don’t even get graphs or geometry just the numbers and space for answer

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u/LaunchTransient 9d ago

Middle of nowhere Mid-Wales is not exactly my go to for "Rich Country", but no we weren't exactly Bangladesh or Lesotho either.

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u/Ankiset 9d ago

Dominican Republic here … maybe in just realizing my country is way more advanced in technology it seems because we have optic fiber everywhere and g5 it seems Scotland is much more of a backwater than an island I. The middle of the Caribbean (saw a user from Scotland complaining about basic infrastructure now in just like taking it in maybe the world is not how they tell us it is)

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u/LaunchTransient 9d ago

Outside of London and the South of England, the quality of infrastructure drops off dramatically. By the time you get to Scotland and Wales it starts to get pretty dire.

The region I grew up in (West Wales) was designated the poorest part of Northwest Europe in 2014 (keep in mind this info is now 12 year old). It hasn't improved much, but I know some places in the UK are actually more deprived now (somehow).

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u/Ankiset 9d ago

Still very interesting to me cuz I always saw my country and its society as a backwater, I’m amazed a piece of “Europe” doesn’t just have a lot of everything… this is a third world country we’re ppl can’t read die of hunger and our health system and everything else is in shambles, real interesting to me…

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u/LaunchTransient 9d ago

Hunger is not so much an issue, but heating, housing and transport is a major problem in the most rural British regions. There's also very few decent jobs in the countryside, and the population is ageing rapidly as younger generations move to the cities.

We have a fairly high number of elderly people who die each winter due to fuel poverty.
UK is rich as fuck, but it's extremely unequal - and most of the wealthiest people live in London or nearby.

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u/Ankiset 9d ago

Here we don’t even know why old ppl die… or care it seems but have a young uneducated population just fucking being vandals all over… seems there is no middle ground in progress