I was engaged to a Bangladeshi, this is what he told me about Bangladesh...

To give some context, I'm a muslim revert from Europe who's lived here all her life. I became Muslim at the age of 20 At 21 I got a marriage proposal online from a Bangladeshi guy, we were in contact for several months and made arrangements to get married in czechia where I live. 1 week before his flight here I chickened out and told him I don't wanna do it anymore (I was 22 at that point)

I don't really want to talk about the entire relationship, whether he meant to "use me" and whatnot, but there are things I keep wondering about... At first the plan was for me to come over to Bangladesh, so naturally I asked about the country. I asked about prostitution as that was the main thing evrryone was warning me about and he laughed and said there was no such thing. I showed him the articles etc that I could find, he claimed it was all propaganda and prostitution isn't common at all. This started a pattern. Any time I heard something about the country, I asked him (with no negative connotations, I never humiliated him for anything or never insulted his country, I just asked if those things are true and what it's really like) and he'd respond as if he'd never heard of it and usually say it's just western propaganda and misinformation and racism

He would claim he wasn't aware that the place is overpopulated. He claimed the streets were clean and modern, at least in Dhaka where he lived. He claimed the water is clean and tap water is safe to drink in most places. He claimed the common floods aren't a "big deal" because the houses are built to last and nobody gets surprised or disrupted by them. He said the workers in fast fashion clothes factories were mostly just women who wanted a part time job because they were bored at home and didn't really need the money that much and that it was a good job to have. I personally live in Prague and sometimes I'd send him a photo or something and in the background there could be seen some ugly buildings. I don't live in the nicest part of the city that is true, but he'd act all shocked and asked why am I in such a "ghetto" when all there would be was like a dirty wall or some graffiti...

These are just a few things I can recall rn but basically he put Bangladesh on the same level as western countries or higher when it comes to laws, technology and other advancements. He had such a way of going about it that I believed him, despite the things I read online or saw with my own eyes in documentaries etc. He always blamed it on western propaganda

I want to ask other Bangladeshis... What is your country like? What is it like living there? What are some things he might have lied to me about and others that I might be mistaken in??