Inspired by Slumdog Millionaire: Slums.

[imabrat]

What's your opinion/thoughts on slums?

I'd never really realized what a travesty slums were until I watched this movie and researched slums. Contrary to what I've read, seeing people live like this only makes me what to go there and help rather than avoid it.
Personally, I can't even fathom how people live like this.
We really are blessed living in America and The UK.

 

[chisnpeke]

It would be an awful way to live. Developed countries really have no idea how lucky they are.

 

[gymnastgirlflips]

I just cant believe people live like that, and most people dont even know about it or seem to care. Im really blessed living how I am right now...
Did you know that the two youngest kids (im not sure which ones) from the movie are actually from the slums? I didn't know that! But they're going to be adopted soon... im so glad. The poor families like that that live there

 

[chisnpeke]

I just cant believe people live like that, and most people dont even know about it or seem to care. Im really blessed living how I am right now...
Did you know that the two youngest kids (im not sure which ones) from the movie are actually from the slums? I didn't know that! But they're going to be adopted soon... im so glad. The poor families like that that live there

I knew they live from the slums. The movie studio moved their families into permanant houses.

 

[MuskratSusie]

Jeez, I can't even imagine!

We all take things for granted.. I'm so greatful for where I live.

 

[Sparx]

i've lived in a ghetto before. the landlord was pretty kind for most of our time there, being lenient if we missed a payment or needed an enxtension from what i remember, but it was the other tennents that gave us problems. drug dealers, hustlers, *****s and their pimps, and illegals all made up the grand majority of the population there. i lived next to a meth lab for quite a while before we were able to move out. there were fights in the parking lot all the time. at one point, when i was little, a woman was stabbed in the stomach (eye?) in the middle of the street and left there.

now, i was never directly exposed to anything bad. my mother made sure of that. but, i know i was one of the lucky ones there. my family fought tooth and nail to get out of that enviornment, and now i live on the "right" side of town in a big white house and i'm going to graduate and go to college and move to an even bigger and better (poverty wise) town.

you never know how bad it gets.