Originally Posted by Wingman32
My vote goes to Calama, Chile. A dusty desert town of 250,000 with NOTHING! (The only plus is that its the gateway city to San Pedro de Atacama). Lots of miners, prostitutes, and stray dogs. I've talked to people that have been transferred here...and trust me they hate life!
If you're thinking HELL!! violence, death, disease wise...take a visit to Rio de Janeiro's favelas. (Usually with 1km of wherever you are in the nice parts of Rio)
I guess that explains why the flights down to SCL were so crowded. I didn't think Calama was as bad as the town of Chuquicamata, which is being moved to the outskirts of Calama because of poisoning from the enormous copper mine there! The mine tour was pretty darn cool too.
When I think "hell on earth," I don't think of the "boring" places like in the thread mentioned previously. I would think of places like Groznyy, Chechyna; the bad areas of Port Moresby, PNG; and Darfur province, Sudan.