While some of these places are very beautiful, there is a hidden danger in all of them. So you may want to take that into consideration the next time you are looking to move. So here they are in no particular order
1 – Cape Town – South Africa,
This place isn’t so bad, except due to poverty and social turmoil the crime rate is atrociously high from desperate people
Like Yemen, this place attracts tourists for its beauty – but you are actually allowed to visit Cape Town, they just advise you don’t travel alone and that you avoid the more notoriously dangerous districts2 – Huntington Ravine Headwall – New Hampshire,
This place was formed by glaciers over thousands of years, nowadays extremely susceptible to avalanches and icefalls
If you decide to go hiking up the winding trail, just bear in mind the cold weather dangers and how easy it is to lose your footing
One hiker actually slipped 200 feet into a boulder field suffering head injuries but was saved by local Mountain Club members3 – Naples – Italy,
Over 650,000 people live in this deathtrap, surrounded by volcanoes on all sides – with a single eruption forcing the evacuation of more than a million people from the surrounding area
Not even 2000 years ago, one of the nearby volcanoes exploded, destroying the ancient cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, with 50 subsequent volcano eruptions since
The nearby Mediterranean Sea hosts a resort island known as Ischia – an eruption there would affect Naples and might even be worse than the explosion 2000 years ago4 – Istanbul – Turkey,
A disaster waiting to happen, 12 million residents in Istanbul living atop the North Anatolian Fault, also known as earthquake central
In 1999 a 7.6 magnitude earthquake decimated the city of Izmit, with the estimated death toll exceeding 40,000
In a 2010 study, Nature Geosciences discovered that tensions along the fault are building, with a magnitude 7 or greater quake in the next 25 years exceeding a 30 to 60 percent chance5 – San Pedro Sula – Honduras
Known everywhere as simply “murder capital of the world”, this is one of the most violent cities on Earth
The homicide rate exceeds 170 per 100,000 people, with arms trafficking and illegal firearms everywhere
Some blame the deportation of Los Angeles gangs from the 1990s, including Mara Salvatrucha and the 18th Street gang, as the major cause of this violence6 – Guatemala,
This among a number of other countries in Central America get hit by a series of natural disasters, including hurricanes, mudslides and earthquakes
In 1976, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake killed more than 23,000 people in Guatemala alone
And again in 2005, the remnants of Hurricane Stan caused over 900 mudslides in the area, swallowing entire villagers and everyone who lived there off the face of the Earth,
While there is truly some beautiful places on this earth any long term visit to any of these places may need to be reconsidered.
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