>visiting a “developing country” with better roads than our state

Most of those places don't have our winter weather which is apparently peculiarly perfect for creating potholes as some expert once patiently explained in this sub but I didn't retain the details. If we were farther north or farther south or farther inland, it wouldn't be anything like as bad, I gather.

(My rescue dog came from a remote village in central Mexico. As a one year old, he was driven a 1000 miles to the border, then in cargo from San Diego across country. Met him the next morning and he was sunny as ever! -- until the last short leg, from Warwick to Providence in my friend's van hitting every pothole that rattled the shit out of him, poor chap 😣)