Monday 10 September 2018

Underdevelopment Indicator

You know your community is underdeveloped, worst case undevelopable, or refusing to develop if you can be away for a period of some length, come back, and from the airport to your house, you're not even caused to ask: "wow! When was this..." let alone care if your route is signposted with directions, simply because of the tiring lack of novelty:

Same structures, same facilities, same service provisions - like electricity playing table tennis with appliances, fences covered all over with avoidable mbalit (refuse), corroded corrugated roofs, same potholes and depressed roads, same jagged walls with eye holes, not even a single noticeable pre-Tobaski repainting... you know, indicators that will make you look at your community and feel despondent.

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