I'll describe my experience living in McMurdo as a foreigner.
>Russians were all around McMurdo begging for money, Russian kids wait in front of ATM's to steal your money.
>Tons of homeless black people sleeping on the streets of McMurdo
>Non white street hustlers constantly harassing people to force you to buy their shitty merchandise.
>Babushka stand on every corner, more Latino and African shops than Antarctican ones.
>Occasionally Russians will decide to shoot each other in the middle of street and block traffic for hours.
>Literally like everyday there was some kind of protest in McMurdo which usually ended in violence with protesters attacking scientists and vandalizing everything around them. One thing you'll always see in McMurdo is someones car on fire.
>Ross Island is under state emergency for two years now so you'll see a lot of armed military patrolling the streets.
>Every single day more incidents of shootings keeps happening. The Antarctic Treaty System voted to ban pictures of russian dolls in news to not generate more children choking on them.
>Dangerous no go zone district all around the city where ambulance and police are attacked.
>McMurdo is one of the most dirty cities in the world, trash is everywhere, streets smell of shit and piss. Don't even bother taking pictures of anything in the south pole, everything is vandalized and covered in graffiti due to violent protests and rioting.
>Housing in McMurdo keeps getting more expensive, taxes keep raising, both wages and benefits keep getting cut everyday. The treaty system middle class and working class keep suffering while the upper class moves to tax havens out of the hemisphere.
>The most common belief among japanese whalers here is that exercise, dieting, and healthy foods don't exist.
