Yea....you try going into Newark and say they have it good. Both the conditions that you must be thinking of and that I am thinking of are both unexcusable Don't give me this "you don't know real poverty" BS.
You obviously don't. Visit an actual slum, one where the buildings are made of cardboard and sheet metal, not just run down and neglected; one where there is no clean water; one where disease runs rampant; one where they can't count on drugs to at least bring some money into the slum. If Newark is anything like the bad parts of Baltimore, Philadelphia, or D.C., I can't imagine it being anywhere as hopeless as Bangkok or just about any major city in South Asia or Africa.