Top 10 Most DIFFICULT Places to Live!!! From Frozen waste lands to scorching deserts…stay tuned to number 1 to find out which of the most difficult places to live in the world houses millions of people!

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Number 10: Bering Sea and Arctic Coast.
Most of us will never have to endure freezing temperatures… well, except for the occasional snowstorms, and that’s all depending on where you live in the world. Even then, most of us are unlikely to have to deal with temperatures that can fall below - 50°F on a regular basis! The ability for humans to be to adapt to different environments has led to groups of people developing remarkable skills and knowledge that has enabled them to conquer some of the most difficult and challenging environments on earth. Over millennia, the indigenous people of Siberia and Alaska have adapted, and thrived in this harsh environment, but it only takes a small event to realize just how isolated some of these communities are. Just over 100 years ago, when much of the Western World was enjoying developments in rail, roads and airplanes, the small city of Nome, Alaska was the center of a crisis which saw 150 dogs and 20 mushers undertake a 5 day to relay across Alaska to deliver the vital medicine help the town overcome a diphtheria epidemic! The disease, which impacted both indigenous and new comers to the region, highlighted to the rest of America the difficulty of living in the far North. Today, Nome and other cities have more reliable travel links, but there are indigenous communities along the Bering and Arctic coasts who continue to live in incredibly difficult and isolated environments.
Number 9: Minqin County, China.
Minqin County is the name giving to an administrative district in Gansu, China, which is the setting of a struggle against the forces of nature. The area is one of the driest places in China, and is at the forefront of the battle against desertification. The area used to house a lake, but this dried up in 1957, and the situation has only deteriorated since then. Now, the area is losing the battle. Between 1957 and 2008, an estimated 70% of the land has been lost to the growing desert, poor soils, and overexploitation of groundwater…all of which haven’t helped with the increasing occurrence of sandstorms. Between 2001 and 2008, the Chinese government spent nearly $9 billion trying to halt the advancing desert. All of this work did result in the revival of the dried-up lake, and since 2010, the county has also been planting more than 3,000 hectares of new forest each year, in a bid to keep the desert at by. Although it’s not THE worst place to live, the high temperatures, coupled with the creeping desert, has caused numerous problems for the inhabitants.
Number 8: San Pedro Sula.
Nearly every major city has at least a certain part of it which it notorious for violence, and isn’t somewhere you’d want to walk alone at night, but San Pedro Sula, in Honduras, takes it to a completely different level. Once named the most violent city in the world, in 2013 it was reported by the Guardian newspaper that Honduras, a country home to around 8 million inhabitants, has a murder rate of 85.5 per 100,000 residents, with about 20 murders a day! In San Pedro Sula, the rate increases to a shocking 173 per 100,000 residents – meaning that, at the time, it was the highest rate in the world outside of a direct war zone!! Although violence has surged in certain areas of the country due to increase involvement in the drug trade, it isn’t just drug traffickers or gang members who are killed, victims also includes students, farmers, journalists, business people and every day people – which means it can’t be an easy place to live. This is the only entry on this list where you’re more likely to be killed by a person than because of environmental factors.
Number 7: La Rinconada, Peru.
As the highest permanent settlement in the world, La Rinconada, in Peru, lies at a height of 5,130 meters, or 16,000 feet above sea level, and is somewhere only the toughest, hard-skinned can live. Located in the Ananea District of the Peruvian Andes, the town looks like it should be in the heart of Greenland or some other northern area, and definitely not as close to the equator as it is. With an average annual temperature of a measly 1.2 °C – definitely not someone you’d want to live if you enjoy a warmer climate. This is clearly NOT somewhere you’d expect to find a permanent settlement, though, and it is perhaps more surprising that between 2001 and 2009 the population of the town increased from a relatively small prospector camp, to around 30,000 people.

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