Check out majority-immigrant areas of the United States. You'll find a lot of the same things you like about Lima - people & families out & about, looking like they actually enjoy being alive. Not a hint of "progress pride" on schools, churches or libraries - or even local locations of national chains like Starbucks. Nowhere in America is kept quite as neat & tidy as you describe Lima, which shouldn't surprise us, because labor is a lot more expensive here.
Check out majority-immigrant areas of the United States. You'll find a lot of the same things you like about Lima - people & families out & about, looking like they actually enjoy being alive. Not a hint of "progress pride" on schools, churches or libraries - or even local locations of national chains like Starbucks. Nowhere in America is kept quite as neat & tidy as you describe Lima, which shouldn't surprise us, because labor is a lot more expensive here.