Bad things happen everywhere, but I agree with you on any place where the whole country smells like a fart.
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Many years ago, as we prepared our return to a tough posting in the Far Abroad after leave in the States, our son asked, “Do we have to go back to the ‘turd’ world?” That phrase, “redolent” with the wisdom possessed only by children, has stayed with me over these passing years. My son was right about the ‘turd’ world. What tips you off that you have arrived in a poor country, a truly, genuinely dirt-poor corner of the Far Abroad, is the smell. As you leave the airport, you notice a special “exotic” odor of rotting vegetation, garbage, and feces combined with a slight whiff of smoke.
One of my sons recently returned from a trip to Argentina and said that, while he enjoyed the trip, there was a pronounced sewage smell in the cities. The reason, apparently, is because after many decades of socialism the plumbing deteriorated greatly, so everyone tosses used bathroom tissue into the trash bin, rather than trying to flush it.
Hopefully this problem gets addressed as they slough off socialism, as the Argentenians are very fine people.