I have lived both in Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur, and I disagree that the former is a dump. However, if you are speaking from the perspective of the location of the seagate factory that you are at, then it is a dump, since they have more or less massacred the environment around it to build those factories. It has become utilitarian and is rather ugly. However, the main town itself is quaint in a small town kind of way, with some pre-war buildings leftover from the second world war. But it aint that small as it is big enough for you to get lost in.
KL can be a dump too, if you had only seen some parts of the city without looking at the nicer areas. In retrospect, those parts could be worse than the worst parts in Ipoh. Believe me as I have lived in those two parts of the country for two decades put together, and I got my first Internet experience from my little home in Ipoh as a teenager.
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I have lived both in Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur, and I disagree that the former is a dump. However, if you are speaking from the perspective of the location of the seagate factory that you are at, then it is a dump, since they have more or less massacred the environment around it to build those factories. It has become utilitarian and is rather ugly. However, the main town itself is quaint in a small town kind of way, with some pre-war buildings leftover from the second world war. But it aint that small as it is big enough for you to get lost in.
KL can be a dump too, if you had only seen some parts of the city without looking at the nicer areas. In retrospect, those parts could be worse than the worst parts in Ipoh. Believe me as I have lived in those two parts of the country for two decades put together, and I got my first Internet experience from my little home in Ipoh as a teenager.