A short conversational YouTube video (uploaded by Peter Vander Wall) in which two speakers discuss why people are "checking out" other cities/countries. Speaker A praises Medellin, Colombia — noting its ~5 million population, temperate climate, and past violence — while Speaker B frames relocations as commentary on the United States, citing visible homelessness in Chicago as an example.
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If you're a listener, you need to go down there. You got to check it out. Colombia is one of the best spots in the world. Medellin, Colombia. About 5 million people, all in this cool valley. The temperature never gets colder than 60, never gets warmer than 80 degrees. Thirty years ago, this was the murder capital of the world with Pablo Esco.
I know a lot of people who have been checking out other countries and, like, relocating out of the United States, but it feels like that doesn't really say much about these other countries. It just says a lot about the state of the United States right now. I mean, like, I live outside of Chicago, right? You go into Chicago and just the homeless problem there, it's just wild. It's everywhere. Every highway underpass, every empty parking spot, there's a homeless person camped out. You walk through, like, the Magnificent Mile, like, the nice part of downtown, and there's homeless people just sitting there, passed out on the sidewalk.