In your country, nice city, New York City, but every moment there is fire – dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung. Why? Very nice city, big city, big roads, big…, but there is suffering. Who wants this fire? But government has to make arrangement for fire brigade, and because it is great nation, very prosperous nation, there is very constantly, very frequently, there is fire. Frequently. You won’t find such fire in India, at least. We have no such experience that every moment there is fire brigade. Is it not? I am exaggerating? Huh? You see. We have got so many cities in India, but we don’t have such arrangement that constantly, twenty-four hours, dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung-dung. At least we haven’t got. Less suffering, because we are not so advanced. The more materially you become advanced, the more suffering. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya [Bg. 7.14]. These rascals, they do not know.

From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.22 – September 18, 1976, Vrndavana