Can't say that I've ever spent any time in any kind of serious backwater. But it made me think of a Canadian acqaintence of mine who is a Captain in their military.
He had done a stint in Haiti and a couple in Afghanistan.
He said that he much preferred Afghanistan,...said the people there live a fairly crude, basic existence, but they got up every day and did their work,..took care of their business.
He said the people in Haiti just sat in squalor day in and day out doing nothing.
