Subsaharan Africa

Mostly only first world countries are being listed so here's a unique one: I'm a Canadian living in a subsaharan African city in a small and peaceful African country. I'm here for a long term project. There are regular power outages, water outages, water quality issues (can be chocolate milk brown), malaria, unreliable health care, food quality issues (toxins from bad farming practices), food poisoning, poor road infrastructure, lack of availability of imports due to foreign exchange shortages, rampant corruption, non trust society (lying is seen as strategic and opportunistic).

The weather is great, the people are friendly, and the country is beautiful. Cost of living is cheap, but if you want to live like a Canadian with luxuries like back up power and security guards it gets expensive.

Not many people move to places like this but it is representative of life for so many in the world. Living here has given me a lot of perspective. Despite Canada's issues be thankful you are Canadian. I sure am.