It pains me to say so, but if I were a Westerner, I would live in Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Chennai or Colombo, no questions asked. Dhaka is a different ball of wax altogether. In India and Sri Lanka there's a life outside of the home. In Dhaka, not so much. Westerners want more out of life than going to dinner parties at the homes of rich socialites in Gulshan, Banani and Baridhara. They don't particularly like a thousand limbless street urchins banging on their car window asking for 10 taka, all while brandishing their physical deformities. And yes, there are traffic jams in the rest of the Subcontinent, but Dhaka takes the cake!
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