Is "Fort Shit-Scared” the most dangerous place to live: The streets are safer than they used to be, a minibus driver assures me, because the police now shoot to kill.

SHOOT: Could be worse. Johannesburg worse.

clipped from www.economist.com "Fort Shit-Scared”, looks down on the Motuan stilt houses in Hanuabada village near Port Moresby It is for this kind of incident that Port Moresby is usually ranked as one of the world's most unlivable cities the Economist Intelligence Unit's liveability index. Foreigners and wealthy Papua New Guineans inhabit fortified apartments on the top of the hills open to the cooler sea breezes, hidden behind high fences bristling with razor wire and spy cameras. Private security guards are everywhere, and police armed with machine guns man key intersections around town. But is the threat to life and limb any greater than in, say, Lagos or Baghdad? I doubt it. And are global tastes so uniform as to allow the world’s capitals to be effortlessly scaled by their liveability? Anyway, Port Moresby has its charms. It is an urban island in a sea of rural villages.