Strahdivarius

As a local with lots of family outside the few "moderate" urban bubbles (which are still far behind other societies in terms of freedom for women) this is very true and indeed depressing at best.

Not even kidding. If I opened my photo albums, you'd see barely 10 photos in a 100 that have women walking by themselves (alone, unchaperoned and out of a burqa) in those places.

This disparity has a far reaching influence over how Pakistani males interact with females in other countries, leading to Tinder profiles explicitly saying "No Pakistanis" (and sometimes Indians) in places with a large number of Indo/Pakistani expats, like Dubai.

As a local, I got quite sick of those garish monstrosities since childhood. Maybe it's the warm climate that just makes all the clashing colors uncomfortable and annoying to look at, everywhere and every day.

I appreciate the more tasteful decor of buses etc in the West or countries like the UAE. My favorite though is the cute-ification of public vehicles in Japan which is on a whole another level :)