In my experience, the “few nice places” in such countries were the narrow areas, museums, hotels, restaurants, in which Western standards were being applied and enforced. The rest was pure hell hole.
Someone asked in another thread a few days ago about moving to a foreign country, I guess for retirement. I’ve been around the world (literally) a few times and after 44 countries, I can say that Dorthy said it the best, “There’s no place like home!”
Home is the United States (and while I’m partial to visiting Jamaica and LOVE Ireland — which is where many of my ancestors are from, and Scotland) and I won’t be moving anywhere, nor ever giving advice to move elsewhere other than the US.
I guess few people notice that more people are trying to GET in, than to get OUT!
I’d say we have a nice place here, and we shouldn’t let some religious fanatics from Islam screw it up.