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China's ghost cities

JeanwahJeanwah Posts: 6,363
edited January 2013 in A Moving Train
Vast cities are being built across China at a rate of ten a year, but they remain almost uninhabited ghost towns. It’s estimated there are 64 million empty apartments.

Check out the video. It's unbelievable...

http://truththeory.com/2012/07/04/chinas-ghost-cities/

Maintaining economic growth is the country's number one priority. But theses cities, brand new, are desolate.
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,087
    Insanity!

    Things not as radically crazy as this but wasteful and disruptive never-the-less happen here in the US as well. The Palladio Mall in Folsom, CA opened over a year ago and yet there are still more vacant shops there than occupied ones. It was built next to two other shopping centers which have had continuously vacant store fronts for years. Worst of all, it was built on a beautiful meadow near wetlands and landscaped with non-native trees and plants.

    Ludicrous!
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  • DubGDubG Posts: 127
    Sounds like Michigan. That can't be California. I love the glove state but things have been steadily declining for the last decade. Not to mention kwame. Nuff said for all my Detroiters out there.
  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    Oh look... the entire "Inland Empire" in California was just a marketing juggernaut gone wrong.

    Land developers bought up the useless, cheap land between LA and Palm Springs... convinced speculators that "this area is HUGE right now... blowing up... get in on the ground floor... you can rent these for TEN TIMES what you're paying in mortgage..."

    And then a bunch of silly people spent their life savings on ugly prefab McMansions and gargantuan housing developments, thinking they were going to strike it rich in rental income... only to see that NOBODY wants to live in Ontario or Riverside or Rancho Cucamonga including the people who already lived there.

    And then the housing bubble burst and many of those pre-made cities never even got finished. Entire housing developments were built, sat vacant and then bulldozed without a single person every actually living there.


    And sadly... none of that comes close to what happened in China.
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  • even flow - question markeven flow - question mark Posts: 1,568
    I was reading about this a while ago. My favourite part of the story that I read was the hotel staff who were ready and waiting for guests to arrive, the piano bar had a player and you could hear a pin drop on any street in the city. Would be kind of cool for paint ball or hide and seek.

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  • JimmyVJimmyV Boston's MetroWest Posts: 19,183
    even flow - question mark wrote:
    I was reading about this a while ago. My favourite part of the story that I read was the hotel staff who were ready and waiting for guests to arrive, the piano bar had a player and you could hear a pin drop on any street in the city. Would be kind of cool for paint ball or hide and seek.

    Or a horror movie.
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,189
    reminds me of vegas.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    China's version of a US high-speed rail system
  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    Jason P wrote:
    China's version of a US high-speed rail system

    Um... what?

    A high-speed rail system would be amazing and it would get used. I'd MUCH rather travel by high-speed rail than a plane and it would cost a lot less.
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  • whgarrettwhgarrett Posts: 574
    Trains are more dangerous than planes.....but back to the selection at hand. Empty cities make me happy. Don't they you?
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 42,087
    whgarrett wrote:
    Trains are more dangerous than planes.....

    Maybe, maybe not:

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... lanes.html



    whgarrett wrote:
    but back to the selection at hand. Empty cities make me happy. Don't they you?

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  • Prince Of DorknessPrince Of Dorkness Posts: 3,763
    whgarrett wrote:
    Trains are more dangerous than planes.....but back to the selection at hand. Empty cities make me happy. Don't they you?

    And guns are more dangerous than both. what's your point?
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  • Jason PJason P Posts: 19,138
    Prince Of Dorkness wrote:
    Jason P wrote:
    China's version of a US high-speed rail system

    Um... what?

    A high-speed rail system would be amazing and it would get used. I'd MUCH rather travel by high-speed rail than a plane and it would cost a lot less.
    In theory in would be great to have it on the east coast. A rail line through the Midwest is not justifiable. A rail line on the west coast would be railroaded (ironically) by environmentalists.

    The downside is that the cost would be too extravagant to justify. The logistics of running a high-speed rail though the east coast and the political manipulations involved would shoot the cost and duration of the project to the moon and back. Its main purpose would be to stimulate economic growth, much like the ghost cities in China.
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