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| *Travel Tips>>>El Salvador Travel Tips |
What is el salvadoran daily life like? |
Travel Info What is el salvadoran daily life like? Travel Tips Well it depends on your level of economic status. The classes of society are very separated and live completely different lifestyles. The poor comprise about 85 to 90 percent of the population and live in varying degrees of poverty. From no running water or electricity and huts made from scrap wood and corrugated metal roofs with dirt floors to small cinder block houses. Crime is a big problem in poor neighborhoods. El Salvador has a huge gang problem. Many poor areas are completely controlled by gangs and young teenagers are actively recruited or face violence and death if they don't join up. Employment opportunities for these people are scarce and much of the money they live on comes from family members living in the States who send them money. There are Western Union wire transfer places in every town and village. The top 5 percent of the country, economic wise, live about the same as upper middle to very wealthy people in the USA. The only difference is they have a lot more security, big walls, barbwire and private police. They have nice malls and many of the food and stores available to them that people in the USA have. The crime is beginning to bother them more, but they blame the poor and just protect themselves more. There is a lot of corruption in the government that effects everybody, and people just accept that as part of how the country works. Rich kids all go to private schools and poor kids go to very poorly funded public schools. Hope that gives you an idea of life here in El Salvador! |
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