I took the bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai in 2014 and the amount of empty cities they have is astounding. They keep building these major cities to try and consolidate down the rural farming areas. I was told the way they allocate space in the building is based on a self reporting system. So obviously people lying through their teeth end up with multiple apartments until they get caught. Some of these buildings never get occupied and are destroyed. A big city like Los Angeles might have 20+ cranes building towers on a given day. One of these no-name chinese cities has 20-30 cranes building 50 story towers 20 at a time. Every one of them could fit San Francisco inside of it. I take comfort knowing that nothing competes with American construction. Those building will fall within 20 years.
Maybe they can use them to relocate all the people downstream of the Three Gorges Dam. Then they can blow it up, blame Taiwan and have a nice excuse for war.
This same type of “future building for change” occurs in the USA too. I remember a huge sub development built in Mn, with 100+ beautiful homes, built on the premise that people from the Minneapolis/St Paul would move an hour away for nicer housing in a small town. These houses were all empty, except a few. My company received a contract to service these homes with the builder bankrupted. This builder had multiple empty “developments”. It is an odd feeling going into houses upon house and nobody home.
Heck, one of my first jobs was part time typing up data for a civil engineer group in Phoenix who were "subdividing" AZ acreage and selling mythical "ranchettes" to gullible easterners. They never got past grading a few roads.
I took the bullet train from Beijing to Shanghai in 2014 and the amount of empty cities they have is astounding. They keep building these major cities to try and consolidate down the rural farming areas. I was told the way they allocate space in the building is based on a self reporting system. So obviously people lying through their teeth end up with multiple apartments until they get caught. Some of these buildings never get occupied and are destroyed. A big city like Los Angeles might have 20+ cranes building towers on a given day. One of these no-name chinese cities has 20-30 cranes building 50 story towers 20 at a time. Every one of them could fit San Francisco inside of it. I take comfort knowing that nothing competes with American construction. Those building will fall within 20 years.
Built with USAID?
Geez who knows at this point. But a common theme with all their plans is:
Maybe they can use them to relocate all the people downstream of the Three Gorges Dam. Then they can blow it up, blame Taiwan and have a nice excuse for war.
This same type of “future building for change” occurs in the USA too. I remember a huge sub development built in Mn, with 100+ beautiful homes, built on the premise that people from the Minneapolis/St Paul would move an hour away for nicer housing in a small town. These houses were all empty, except a few. My company received a contract to service these homes with the builder bankrupted. This builder had multiple empty “developments”. It is an odd feeling going into houses upon house and nobody home.
Heck, one of my first jobs was part time typing up data for a civil engineer group in Phoenix who were "subdividing" AZ acreage and selling mythical "ranchettes" to gullible easterners. They never got past grading a few roads.
I hate the material wastage of building and then destroying empty cities.
Think of the fossil fuels to calcine the cement, Think of the copper and iron in a city.
Stupid central planning
I just hate misallocated resources is all.
Thanks fren!
Haven't you seen my comments enough to know I'm ornery and truculent but not retarded?
:-)
I remember almost all regular commenters.
For example you are in a Scandinavian country, you said so another day,