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India feels like one of the last countries on Earth that's truly wild, almost in the spaghetti western sense.

People steal scrap metal in the poor areas here too, but it's usually just pipes from abandoned buildings. I've never seen an entire bridge go missing, abandoned or otherwise. It's actually kind of impressive.

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Funny. I could make the same statement for USA. If I pick weird Florida man kind of news happening in remote corners and use it to generalise the whole country

Sounds like you took my comment as an insult. It was a compliment, if anything.

I figured you, the reader, would be smart enough to make the distinction you're looking for in your own head without me spelling them out. Everyone already knows India is full of modern and developed areas, but that's not what the article was about. My comment doesn't exist in a vacuum, so maybe it would be fair to afford me the same nuance you seem to be after.

i took your comment as on literal value and nothing else. I get the same wild wild west feeling in deep areas of USA, maybe west virginia. How I as a reader would understand your intentions if you write like NYT or BBC about how "exotic" this foreign land ?

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