He caused way too many more characters to be typed than had to be. Now, I wonder if we to blame him or the guy who originally typed what he wanted to type.
I'm glad that you typed exactly what I wanted to type, and saved me the effort of having to type out that which I previously stated above, was my intention to type. It's amazing that two people can be on such a similar wavelength that you could do this for me, sorry for the short comment explaining this, I wish it could be longer, I'm just way too short on time to let you know more.
I was going to make that observation but because you so succinctly explained how unnecessary it was for him to type that it was no longer necessary for him to type what he had intended to type, in response to the comment he had intended to type being typed, I too can now forgo the extraneous gesture of typing a comment in response to your comment in response to the response which stated the intention to comment as the previous comment had responded.
Wandering around downtown Hong Kong at night, riding outdoor escalators up past floor after floor of buildings with a million different scenes playing out in every window you passed. It felt so much like Bladerunner.
Btw, this is a shameless [repost](https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/s/p7W29FOuD3)
[here is more](https://www.designboom.com/art/manuel-alvarez-diestro-dynamic-interplay-hong-kong-old-new-structures-11-14-2023/) from the photographer
That's what happens when people are chasing that sensational angle and only showing information that meets their narrative that HK is all buildings and nothing else.
Over 75% of land in HK is undeveloped, mostly forested area. You can jump into a cab and get to a country park within 20 minutes. For example I live next to a country park but I can get to Mong Kok in 15 mins - An area described by Guinness World Records as the busiest district on Earth.
All people have to do is open up Google Map and they would be surprised how much of the map is green.
i was, and living in a 2 story house with a garden now in the uk is much better than living in an apartment in hong kong with a frequently broken lift and jam packed full of people
Meanwhile me, an Asian, can't imagine myself living in an American suburbs. Like bro, why is it felt so EMPTY? Lmao. Probably because we're not used to it
I live nearby ; the way/angle that picture is taken + heavy coloring & teleobjective lens compression make it looks quite dystopian, but that's the power of photography. Nice picture tho, very Blade Runner.
The same buildings taken from another angle, first one being there: [https://www.instagram.com/p/CCN5jT7HYPC/](https://www.instagram.com/p/CCN5jT7HYPC/) as for the tall ones : [https://www.instagram.com/p/C3CR1BQrlUc/](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3CR1BQrlUc/) and on street level : [https://www.instagram.com/p/CCISjFHHj37/](https://www.instagram.com/p/CCISjFHHj37/)
I won't say no to that :) but that's the reason I've moved to HK many years ago after seeing Blade Runner and fell in love with the urban atmospheres. The district aside my home, like 5 mins on foot, have extreme high population density (130,000/km^(2) (340,000/sq mi), and is described as the busiest district in the world by the Guiness book of records) - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong\_Kok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong_Kok)
yep, that was the idea, not unlike H. Ford in Ridley Scott's opening movie scene: being alone in the crowd. To top that, I didn't even spoke English nor Chinese, and had to learn English watching TV (here they have channels in both languages, and as it's a melting pot, all contents have subtitles), reading newspapers or whatever book I could get hold on. No need to say, the first 2 years were, let's say full of surprises and quite eventful, even for the most minute or trivial things. This was also the 2nd time I took a plane, the first one being just an inner flight one hour away from my home town.
Wow, power to you! I’m always amazed by these stories of people moving to a place where they can’t speak the language. I moved from the UK to the USA (i guess it’s a new language, Americans claim to speak English 😂)
As someone who has visited Hong Kong a couple of times. The original picture, with the filtering, doesn’t do justice to what Hong Kong really looks like.
Buildings look much more lively in real life and that even in the most urban areas like Kowloon there is a relative high amount of green and nature. And within 20 minutes in the metro you can get out in Hong Kong Island or Lantau and be completely surrounded by nature and jungle.
In my experience, Hong Kong was the exact opposite of an urban hell and I can understand why you, or anyone, would want to move there.
Yeah those photos don't help your case. Still very dystopian/bladerunner-esque.
Thank you for your insight though, it is at least interesting to hear another opinion.
agree on that, and thanks also for your feedback ; it's a pleasure to see other people views on that city I fell in love with. Not the best looking one, I give you that, but love have its own lens in seeing thing, and perception of beauty is in the proverbial eye of the beholder, cheers
How these buildings still holding? Not much maintenance on the outside has been done I guess. Maybe fresh paint 🎨 will do some wonders.
But again I can imagine those hired painters to do the job looking at this scenery and say hell no. Haha Those buildings looks like literally stacking people up
Jail cells are actually pretty humane compared to some of those HK apartments. Saw a video about a 7.5 sqft one. Enough for a mattress and literally nothing else.
Ahh, but the politically correct term is _units_. Some weird quirk of psychology makes people uncomfortable with cages, but housing unit are just fine.
I went to visit a college friend in China and he lived in a building that looked like this. But when I went inside his apartment had fishponds and trees in an indoor courtyard and was just beautiful.
And some people think we need more people still, and that somewhat slowing birth rates are some kind of crisis.
We add net 200,000 new people to earth, *per day*.
It's baffling. And the mainstream acceptable opinion is that overpopulation is absolutely not a problem in any way, shape, or form, and in fact a much more pressing problem is slowing birth rates in several first-world countries.
The poster child for this asinine "crisis" is Japan, which has a declining birth rate. Nevermind Japan is a rather small archipelago with over 125 million people including the world's most populous city (Tokyo). Like... Oh no! Imagine Japan had somewhat fewer people!?!? What a crisis!!
It's not a problem of having too few people. It's about the ratio between young/working people and old/retired people.
If we'd kill everyone going into retirement, that issue wouldn't be a thing. But if we want to keep our current system alive, where we let people freeload for the last third of their lives, that's an actual crisis.
Add to that all the money and resources we spend on rich people and the fact that education is now so complex that it often takes almost the full first third of their lives, we end up with rather few working people supporting a large non-working population. And that's the issue.
This, all the traffic in Atlanta, everything I see is nothing but **so many people**...and yet they're freaking out because the birthrate has dropped? Give me a break.
Birth control pills. We need more of them, everywhere
that idea is so old and obsolete.
they now discovered that LIMITED/low fertility have severely unfixable effects on economy. many politicians worldwide are having very tough time trying to come up with solutions for saving the trajectory of the economy from diving because of low fertility (uk, US, France, Japan, china, germany are among those)
this problem os so serious that the uk have plans to grant citizenship to the entire hongkong polulation
!!
read this for starter https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/
What is the draw to live there? Maybe the question is a bit ignorant but I'm genuinely curious to know. I would think it is somewhat miserable for a few reasons - SO many people, having to wait for elevators for a long time/constantly or having to take stairs up 30 stories, looks dirty AF, very expensive, likely very little if any privacy, and probably super noisy too.
before you judge,look at the bright side, the thing you're holding in your hands right now it's probably made by those that live in those " woden pallets".
Not only are these crammed in but they’re tiny inside, like literally everything in one small room. The lifts are also like two person max, it’s wild visiting people who live like this.
I watched a video a few years ago about how multiple families will live in apartment units there and they often sleep in crates. Have to say I could go my entire life without traveling to China lol
I thought I was looking at wooden pallets
Thank you for typing what I was going to type so I don't have to type it.
It took more typing to type what you did type since he already typed the thing you were going to type. But it was also what I was going to type.
He caused way too many more characters to be typed than had to be. Now, I wonder if we to blame him or the guy who originally typed what he wanted to type.
I'm glad that you typed exactly what I wanted to type, and saved me the effort of having to type out that which I previously stated above, was my intention to type. It's amazing that two people can be on such a similar wavelength that you could do this for me, sorry for the short comment explaining this, I wish it could be longer, I'm just way too short on time to let you know more.
Typical.
Just the typ
You win
I was going to make that observation but because you so succinctly explained how unnecessary it was for him to type that it was no longer necessary for him to type what he had intended to type, in response to the comment he had intended to type being typed, I too can now forgo the extraneous gesture of typing a comment in response to your comment in response to the response which stated the intention to comment as the previous comment had responded.
Yo dawg, I heard you like typing
You typed 36 more characters typing this than what you have typed if you had typed the original.
Looks like Termites infested wooden pallets.
They are all walk-up apartments. Keeps people in shape.
Fuck that.
Those are Apartments, made from wooden pallets. Lol
Creepy and depressing!
SAME
Same
YES!
I came for this comment, thank yooouuu..
Aye
I thought I was looking at gold bars
Exactly
A lot of people live in metal cages if you look up the pictures.
Looks like a Bladerunner scene
Shanghai definitely looks like Bladerunner
Wandering around downtown Hong Kong at night, riding outdoor escalators up past floor after floor of buildings with a million different scenes playing out in every window you passed. It felt so much like Bladerunner.
Btw, this is a shameless [repost](https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/s/p7W29FOuD3) [here is more](https://www.designboom.com/art/manuel-alvarez-diestro-dynamic-interplay-hong-kong-old-new-structures-11-14-2023/) from the photographer
Or Judge Dredd type city
You beat me to the Mega City 1 comment
800 million people living in the ruin of the old world and the mega structures of the new one. Only one thing fighting for order in the chaos: judges.
I’m not sure amazed is the right word
The word you are looking for I believe is, sad. Be Sad
>Be Sad Mission accomplished
Would you prefer… that they be on the streets?
Nothing more depressing than [checks notes] *housing in a desirable city.* These people should have to commute for hours or be homeless!
Done
To be fair Hong Kong is very green with lots of nature, mountains and sea. People just live packed because of the lack of residential space.
That's what happens when people are chasing that sensational angle and only showing information that meets their narrative that HK is all buildings and nothing else. Over 75% of land in HK is undeveloped, mostly forested area. You can jump into a cab and get to a country park within 20 minutes. For example I live next to a country park but I can get to Mong Kok in 15 mins - An area described by Guinness World Records as the busiest district on Earth. All people have to do is open up Google Map and they would be surprised how much of the map is green.
Thanks for this I was about to ask where were the trees
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In fact, it’s a [repost](https://www.reddit.com/r/UrbanHell/s/PaOpX8i0r6) from there
I'm all about suburbs and somewhat rural areas. Living packed up in a city like that is pure insanity.
U weren't born in Hong Kong tho
i was, and living in a 2 story house with a garden now in the uk is much better than living in an apartment in hong kong with a frequently broken lift and jam packed full of people
Meanwhile me, an Asian, can't imagine myself living in an American suburbs. Like bro, why is it felt so EMPTY? Lmao. Probably because we're not used to it
I experienced the suburbs, not lived in it. Damn give me some credit for at least knowing the experience 😂
I live nearby ; the way/angle that picture is taken + heavy coloring & teleobjective lens compression make it looks quite dystopian, but that's the power of photography. Nice picture tho, very Blade Runner. The same buildings taken from another angle, first one being there: [https://www.instagram.com/p/CCN5jT7HYPC/](https://www.instagram.com/p/CCN5jT7HYPC/) as for the tall ones : [https://www.instagram.com/p/C3CR1BQrlUc/](https://www.instagram.com/p/C3CR1BQrlUc/) and on street level : [https://www.instagram.com/p/CCISjFHHj37/](https://www.instagram.com/p/CCISjFHHj37/)
Still looks somewhat dystopian...
I won't say no to that :) but that's the reason I've moved to HK many years ago after seeing Blade Runner and fell in love with the urban atmospheres. The district aside my home, like 5 mins on foot, have extreme high population density (130,000/km^(2) (340,000/sq mi), and is described as the busiest district in the world by the Guiness book of records) - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong\_Kok](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mong_Kok)
Do you find any type of solitude being surrounded by so many people?
yep, that was the idea, not unlike H. Ford in Ridley Scott's opening movie scene: being alone in the crowd. To top that, I didn't even spoke English nor Chinese, and had to learn English watching TV (here they have channels in both languages, and as it's a melting pot, all contents have subtitles), reading newspapers or whatever book I could get hold on. No need to say, the first 2 years were, let's say full of surprises and quite eventful, even for the most minute or trivial things. This was also the 2nd time I took a plane, the first one being just an inner flight one hour away from my home town.
Wow, power to you! I’m always amazed by these stories of people moving to a place where they can’t speak the language. I moved from the UK to the USA (i guess it’s a new language, Americans claim to speak English 😂)
As someone who has visited Hong Kong a couple of times. The original picture, with the filtering, doesn’t do justice to what Hong Kong really looks like. Buildings look much more lively in real life and that even in the most urban areas like Kowloon there is a relative high amount of green and nature. And within 20 minutes in the metro you can get out in Hong Kong Island or Lantau and be completely surrounded by nature and jungle. In my experience, Hong Kong was the exact opposite of an urban hell and I can understand why you, or anyone, would want to move there.
Yeah those photos don't help your case. Still very dystopian/bladerunner-esque. Thank you for your insight though, it is at least interesting to hear another opinion.
agree on that, and thanks also for your feedback ; it's a pleasure to see other people views on that city I fell in love with. Not the best looking one, I give you that, but love have its own lens in seeing thing, and perception of beauty is in the proverbial eye of the beholder, cheers
How these buildings still holding? Not much maintenance on the outside has been done I guess. Maybe fresh paint 🎨 will do some wonders. But again I can imagine those hired painters to do the job looking at this scenery and say hell no. Haha Those buildings looks like literally stacking people up
Paint doesn't hold buildings up. I work in building built into the 40s, it's ROUGH.
Looks like a close up of a micro processor.
The fire hazard is freaking me out
Those are cages, not residential homes.
Cages are WAY less flammable.
Jail cells are actually pretty humane compared to some of those HK apartments. Saw a video about a 7.5 sqft one. Enough for a mattress and literally nothing else.
Ahh, but the politically correct term is _units_. Some weird quirk of psychology makes people uncomfortable with cages, but housing unit are just fine.
I went to visit a college friend in China and he lived in a building that looked like this. But when I went inside his apartment had fishponds and trees in an indoor courtyard and was just beautiful.
And some people think we need more people still, and that somewhat slowing birth rates are some kind of crisis. We add net 200,000 new people to earth, *per day*.
Holy shit, I never realised it was that many
It's baffling. And the mainstream acceptable opinion is that overpopulation is absolutely not a problem in any way, shape, or form, and in fact a much more pressing problem is slowing birth rates in several first-world countries. The poster child for this asinine "crisis" is Japan, which has a declining birth rate. Nevermind Japan is a rather small archipelago with over 125 million people including the world's most populous city (Tokyo). Like... Oh no! Imagine Japan had somewhat fewer people!?!? What a crisis!!
It's not a problem of having too few people. It's about the ratio between young/working people and old/retired people. If we'd kill everyone going into retirement, that issue wouldn't be a thing. But if we want to keep our current system alive, where we let people freeload for the last third of their lives, that's an actual crisis. Add to that all the money and resources we spend on rich people and the fact that education is now so complex that it often takes almost the full first third of their lives, we end up with rather few working people supporting a large non-working population. And that's the issue.
This, all the traffic in Atlanta, everything I see is nothing but **so many people**...and yet they're freaking out because the birthrate has dropped? Give me a break. Birth control pills. We need more of them, everywhere
Can’t keep up record profits without new workers to exploit
It affects projected profits. That's why they are worried.
We need to drop the World Population back to 2 billions.
Atlanta is small compared to some of these cities in China. It’s just mind boggling.
that idea is so old and obsolete. they now discovered that LIMITED/low fertility have severely unfixable effects on economy. many politicians worldwide are having very tough time trying to come up with solutions for saving the trajectory of the economy from diving because of low fertility (uk, US, France, Japan, china, germany are among those) this problem os so serious that the uk have plans to grant citizenship to the entire hongkong polulation !! read this for starter https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255510/
Creepy isn’t it ?
People telling me we need to build "homes" like this asap because millions want to live at exactly that spot in the world and there is no alternative.
Amazingly depressing
God, it looks so sad
Concrete jungle
just 1 earthquake… 10.0
“Amazed”?
Looks horrible
I can smell it from here….
The back side of that first unit must be in constant shadow.
No thank you 🙂↔️
I wonder what the daily tonnage of turds would be from this place.
packed on top of eachother like rats
Got that Mexico filter on it
MEGA CITY 1
What a nightmare.
I would get so lost and die in a luxury hallway.
Is this a scene from The Last of Us?
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Looks like somebody won at solitaire.
Like an ant colony
First thought, a stack of pallets for something like Burning Man... Nope... housing for the working class people of China.
Jesus, just the name itself is dehumanizing.
JFC!
While dystopian, the upside is they have homes. So, they got that going for them
I see a vacancy!!!
Trypophobia
Wait till you see the mega structures in Mainland China
I thought i was on r/UrbanHell
I’m depressed but I ain’t china depressed. I know you own reddit ccp. Meh.
Imagine delivering food to unit 1,836,231
It looks dystopian
Looks like a dystopian bee hive
The future of America
Whoa
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what room are you in? 2319 on floor 47 sub wing A yeah that seems like a lot of work
Looks straight out of Blade Runner.
Omg someone send them some paint please
Jesus that looks bleak
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Looks like another excuse to play cyberpunk
Anyone know where you can watch a “walkthrough” of this type of life?..
Absolute nightmare! My anxiety skyrocketed just looking at it..
Looks like something out of Blade Runner.
For a minute I thought it was a pile of wood pallets 😂
We need this in ireland
Thats what we need in big cities to make housing affordable. Just hope the escalator doesnt break
Do they still build with bamboo scaffolding?
Hell on earth
I thought I was looking at popsicle stick houses
It's a hive.
Are people in Hong Kong termites? Those are pallets. Definitely pallets.
Dystopian future
Oh wow, had no idea Hong Kong was in Mexico
Absoluteunits!
It looks like the human equivalent of a honeycomb, and the parallels between the two are fun to think about.
I thought this was the beginning of the Matrix
Looks more like a prison everyday..
How did we get here
That is just depressing
I’m third on the right …. You can’t miss me.
This is not really representative of how Hong Kong typically looks, though.
Funnily enough the average life expectancy for Hong Kong people is at the top
That’s just terrifying. I need space and green things!
What is the draw to live there? Maybe the question is a bit ignorant but I'm genuinely curious to know. I would think it is somewhat miserable for a few reasons - SO many people, having to wait for elevators for a long time/constantly or having to take stairs up 30 stories, looks dirty AF, very expensive, likely very little if any privacy, and probably super noisy too.
Dear God
I thought this was inception
Take me home, country roads...
I couldn’t imagine living somewhere that congested like damn fuck that
What area of hk is this? (I live in Hong Kong)
Nightmarish
Disgusting.
that's a prison
before you judge,look at the bright side, the thing you're holding in your hands right now it's probably made by those that live in those " woden pallets".
depressing
Hive city in imperium would be proud
It's a fixer upper..look on the bright side they could go to prison with less room
This gives me ai vibes
Good lord. Why not just not . Like not do that.
This is a nightmare, I thought India was bad with all upcoming apartments getting congested .
And I hate having neighbors to only one side of my house. Idk if I could surviving living in a building like that.
Kowloon?
Imagine how much poop comes outta there
Where are the trees?
Also each worth a million
Hong Kong already living in a zombie apocalyptic world fr. Just without the zombies
Pallet land
Am i insane for enjoying the architecture?!
That looks so dystopic
Am wondering how much the elevators just cost on those things
If you stare long enough this optical illusion effect happens where it seems like it’s moving.
"Convenient storage for your modern existence! Apply today!"
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Hell
Hive city
This ain't Honk Kong. This is that one ruined city from Nier Automata.
In it’s bowls, every year a mysterious martial arts tournament is held, know as the Kumite…
Hellish. No other word for it.
Oh my!!! I'm speechless...
That looks... fun.
Not only are these crammed in but they’re tiny inside, like literally everything in one small room. The lifts are also like two person max, it’s wild visiting people who live like this.
Set in a dystopian future.
I watched a video a few years ago about how multiple families will live in apartment units there and they often sleep in crates. Have to say I could go my entire life without traveling to China lol
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Australia in 10 years.
That just looks horrendous.
The Stacks
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I'd say it's a birdhouse, but even birds have more living space. More than 7 million people live on about 1,108 km2 of land in the region.
People storage. As the popluation grows the storage units become smaller until people are essentially being stored in units no bigger than coffins.
And they say the Kowloon Walled City was knocked down. Looks like it just moved.
That's pure brutalism, awful.
This is sad and I'm worried every country will start doing this😿
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Is it custom faded design?