In your opinion. What's the most dangerous place in the world?

Croydon

The Dog and Trumpet on a Friday night.

By n8 dogg Go To PostCroydon

london is pleasant

Syria.
Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Alabama.

American Wal-Marts on Black Friday.

The bathroom after n8's used it.

By ClownsAreATen Go To PostSyria.
Rakhine State, Myanmar.
Alabama.

Syria's not worse than Libya by any stretch tbh.

As for Myanmar, the reason the world gave no fucks about what was going on there was because the violence was explicitly aimed at Rohingya - and that's been a common theme since World War II. They're probably the last truly universally hated and persecuted people left on the planet. Countries have passed that human rights atrocity around the pacific like a blunt. Even now, people still don't really 'care'. A few nice, powerful remarks but is anyone saying they'll drop a few tomahawks on them? Nope. Just polity keep down the ethnic cleansing, its noisy and bad for business.

And West Virginia is definitely worse than Alabama. Also North Dakota.

Honduras

Even if you don't get murdered, some two-bit alehouse fucker will probably double-foot you out of nowhere

i've been to Libya and Iran but felt more threatened in the US ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Psy's kitchen

There's actually a lot written about this one.

This is a recent list of most dangerous places people might conceivably travel to:

World's 20 most dangerous countries- The Independent

Top 3:

1. Colombia
2. Yemen
3. El Salvador

This is the Global Peace Index's ranking for 2017, which is more of a "real" answer:

25 most dangerous countries per Global Peace Index

1. Syria
2. Afghanistan
3. Iraq

If you're looking for the "my opinion" type answer, it's any place with poor health care infrastructure that lets deadly communicable incurable disease take root. At least corrupt officials you can bribe and warzones you can try and drive around.

Within a foot of these hands bruh



It's El Salvador.

My sex dungeon

By DY_nasty Go To PostSyria's not worse than Libya by any stretch tbh.

As for Myanmar, the reason the world gave no fucks about what was going on there was because the violence was explicitly aimed at Rohingya - and that's been a common theme since World War II. They're probably the last truly universally hated and persecuted people left on the planet. Countries have passed that human rights atrocity around the pacific like a blunt. Even now, people still don't really 'care'. A few nice, powerful remarks but is anyone saying they'll drop a few tomahawks on them? Nope. Just polity keep down the ethnic cleansing, its noisy and bad for business.

And West Virginia is definitely worse than Alabama. Also North Dakota.

I'm too lazy to get sources to contest your Libya claim.
Alabama is probably going to elect a child molester as senator so that's a point to WV and ND.

Edit: LiveFromKyoto did my job for me thanks bud

By livefromkyoto Go To PostThere's actually a lot written about this one.

This is a recent list of most dangerous places people might conceivably travel to:

World's 20 most dangerous countries- The Independent

Top 3:

1. Colombia
2. Yemen
3. El Salvador

This is the Global Peace Index's ranking for 2017, which is more of a "real" answer:

25 most dangerous countries per Global Peace Index

1. Syria
2. Afghanistan
3. Iraq

If you're looking for the "my opinion" type answer, it's any place with poor health care infrastructure that lets deadly communicable incurable disease take root. At least corrupt officials you can bribe and warzones you can try and drive around.

I was going to start my "everyone forgets about africa" lens but looking at that list everything in the top 20 is like yep yep yep

then i see US at 50 with places like Honduras, Uganda, and even Jamaica behind it and I'm genuinely clueless as to what they're using as a metrics

New Zealand m8s

By FootbalIFan Go To PostNew Zealand m8s

never trust a man with sheep

Dunno about most dangerous but this place is, well...

By DY_nasty Go To PostI was going to start my "everyone forgets about africa" lens but looking at that list everything in the top 20 is like yep yep yep

then i see US at 50 with places like Honduras, Uganda, and even Jamaica behind it and I'm genuinely clueless as to what they're using as a metrics

A bunch of internal & external factors. US is involved in a bunch of wars and is a terrorism target, in addition to crime and insane levels of domestic weapons and mass murders. Then there's economic inequality, etc.

Details here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

By livefromkyoto Go To PostA bunch of internal & external factors. US is involved in a bunch of wars and is a terrorism target, in addition to crime and insane levels of domestic weapons and mass murders. Then there's economic inequality, etc.

Details here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

Someone already beat me to it on the slight lack of scrutiny regarding women and children

china being 'slightly better' than the US among other stuff just had me a bit confused

Yeah if we're adding women and kids into the mix it gets more complicated. Also if you're of the native population or you mean just generally as americans or europeans somewhere. In many places the femicide rate is no joke among the native population.

By livefromkyoto Go To PostThere's actually a lot written about this one.

This is a recent list of most dangerous places people might conceivably travel to:

World's 20 most dangerous countries- The Independent

Top 3:

1. Colombia
2. Yemen
3. El Salvador

This is the Global Peace Index's ranking for 2017, which is more of a "real" answer:

25 most dangerous countries per Global Peace Index

1. Syria
2. Afghanistan
3. Iraq

If you're looking for the "my opinion" type answer, it's any place with poor health care infrastructure that lets deadly communicable incurable disease take root. At least corrupt officials you can bribe and warzones you can try and drive around.

These are weird lists. A lot of the rankings don't logically add up with what I "know" about the countries but I guess it depends on how much they weigh isolated cases of violence in pockets vs country as a whole or how much influence big incidents have.

I've seen a lot of people talk about going to Colombia on vacation and considering Medellin for my next trip.

Africa and Central America probably

By livefromkyoto Go To PostA bunch of internal & external factors. US is involved in a bunch of wars and is a terrorism target, in addition to crime and insane levels of domestic weapons and mass murders. Then there's economic inequality, etc.

Details here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index

The Murder rate of Jamaica is over 9 times higher than the U.S.

It's a stupid list.

By diehard Go To PostThe Murder rate of Jamaica is over 9 times higher than the U.S.

I would have guessed higher lmao

I keep hearing about how south African is meant to be so dangerous.

By Vlatko Go To PostI've seen a lot of people talk about going to Colombia on vacation and considering Medellin for my next trip.

I've been to Colombia and experienced no issues. You can certainly find violence if you're looking for it, but that's true of practically anywhere. If you're not a complete fool, you'll be fine.

I haven't made it out to Medellin (yet), but everything I've heard from other travelers has been enthusiastic and laudatory.

Morroco

It's place I really want to visit but I've heard it's dog eat dog out there

By Hitch Go To PostHonduras

Even if you don't get murdered, some two-bit alehouse fucker will probably double-foot you out of nowhere

Double-footed?

By DY_nasty Go To Postthen i see US at 50 with places like Honduras, Uganda, and even Jamaica behind it and I'm genuinely clueless as to what they're using as a metrics

Probably the number of mass murders?

US has a lot of DUI related deaths too.

By Bold 2 in One Go To PostI keep hearing about how south African is meant to be so dangerous.

South Africa as a country is just messed up.

I'm perpetually confused about South Africa. I think I'd actually have to visit to make sense of it at this point.

By giririsss Go To PostProbably the number of mass murders?

I mean, yeah there's that and its something rare to the US mostly. At the same time, there are plenty of countries where murder isn't even something that makes the news lol

oops

By DY_nasty Go To PostI'm perpetually confused about South Africa. I think I'd actually have to visit to make sense of it at this point.
I mean, yeah there's that and its something rare to the US mostly. At the same time, there are plenty of countries where murder isn't even something that makes the news lol

Slightly facetiously, slightly not, does murder even make the news in the US anymore or only the mass murders?

Should the fact that's a legitimate question raise eyebrows?Who knows.

But on a "peace" index the fact america has a large military in several places around the world and a psychotic president probably cements it's place on the other side of "peaceful". Even if in comparison to several countries around the world, you're not expecting main battle tanks to be rolling down the gardens of Maine any time soon.

But for raw violence and terror (as in, "oh god i may get kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to harvest my organs / fight in some extremists radical army") it's probably not really up there in comparison to a lot of 3rd world countries where life is an every day fight in many ways.

Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, Honduras are all far worse on a full country scale.

But i think part of this is because people have focused on cities and not countries too.

Iraq, Chad, Sudan, Pakistan, Congo .... They're just not safe at all in any part of the country. And there is no reliable reporting in most of those countries either. So getting it on a "per city" basis is impossible. And in the case of many of those, the government doesn't really have control over huge chunks of the country.

well, the us news past the local level is just a shitshow these days for the most part lol. major outlets would have you convinced that the us is burning down all around us. yeah there's a lot of mass shootings (something that's basically american tradition at this point) and the cops are trigger happy, but its a far cry from vigilante hit squads in the philipines that'll drop a body for a full tank of gas or chad where every day is pubg

It's hard to compare US directly to places because states and fed are vastly different from shit elsewhere. Not even provinces compare.

By Random Ass Username Go To PostIt's hard to compare US directly to places because states and fed are vastly different from shit elsewhere. Not even provinces compare.

alaska vs california

michigan vs new york

texas vs everybody

By DY_nasty Go To Postalaska vs california

michigan vs new york

texas vs everybody

Pretty much. States are basically their own country and then we wonder why we have so many problems. Soon enough the sheer size and vastly different politics between all these regions (and regions within the states themselves) will reach a boiling point (that boiling point is now if we're being truly honest).

Chernobyl

Would a better question be, what's the safest place in the world? If so: Alabama if you're a White Christian pedophile.