Psst. Wanna by a city?

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DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 4:02 AM

Kangbashi New Area

Not news, but interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangbashi_New_Area

Truly bizarre, nifty pictures, street view

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391868/This-city-built-millio
n-people--lives-here.html

and satellite

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339536/Ghost-towns-China-Sate
llite-images-cities-lying-completely-deserted.html

Quote:
“It’s pretty lonely here,” Li Li, the marketing manager of an elegant restaurant in Kangbashi’s mostly vacant Lido Hotel, told The New York Times. “Most of the people who come to our restaurant are government officials and their guests. There aren’t any common residents around here.”

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1391868/This-city-built-millio
n-people--lives-here.html

In inner mongolia, a city built for a million lies empty nearly a decade later.

http://hypervocal.com/vids/2011/hows-it-possible-for-china-to-have-a-g
host-town/#

They also built a million cargo vessels too many. Last I saw they were selling for a penny a piece. An american shipping company is actually folding because of it, not because they bought the ships, but because they had loans based on the value of their own dry bulk ships, which is now negative capital.

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

GEEZER

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:47 PM

Ah, yes. The wonders of central planning.

I'm wondering why the government didn't just round up a million folks and move them in. Perhaps some of the 1.25 million people they displaced with the Three Gorges Dam project.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 1:49 PM

Hey Occupy crowd... go occupy there!

"The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it." - Albert Einstein

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. - Someone.

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:35 PM

The ideas in this thread, while part joking, aren't half bad. Despite the Chinese government and the questionability of someone choosing to move to live under their human rights record, that city would be the easiest place in the world to hide and eke out a scavenger existence.

GEEZER

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 2:41 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:
The ideas in this thread, while part joking, aren't half bad. Despite the Chinese government and the questionability of someone choosing to move to live under their human rights record, that city would be the easiest place in the world to hide and eke out a scavenger existence.

One of the articles cited listed over 60 million empty residences. From the photos, some of them looked pretty nice. Think we could convince many of our undocumented immigrants to move to China with the promise of a brand new home free and clear, Chinese citizenship, and a guaranteed job?

PIZMOBEACH

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 3:41 PM

It would make a great post apocalyptic film set, or a dream paintball playground.

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

DREAMTROVE

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 3:49 PM

This is pretty awesome stuff guys. Thanks.

The snag at the moment is the Chinese govt, which is setting the rent at a pretty high level. It's come down a lot, but recently China has realized that it can make a fortune on real estate, as an alt. revenue source. (Sure you could move in, but if enough people did, they govt. would send in officials, whom they have 400 million of, to start collecting rent)

It also of course would boggle the minds of anyone not familiar with the govt. of China, but we know that this is exactly what we've come to expect from them:

Oh, look, we built a massive expansion in Shanghai and everyone moved in! People doubted our great plan, but it worked. Now we will do it again in Inner Mongolia.

Which of course all happens without anyone questioning it and saying "but Inner Mongolia is not Shanghai" because that would just be too obvious.

Geez,

Good catch on the three gorges. And yes, pretty nice looking place. A little chilly right about now, but so is here.

Remember this sort of thing for when the commie govt. collapses. One of my Chinese relatives has predicted this for 2017, a prediction based on "that's when the last original revolutionary retires" and "look what transpired when that happened in the USSR"

That's what a ship is, you know - it's not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails, that's what a ship needs.

AURAPTOR

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 4:44 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by pizmobeach:
It would make a great post apocalyptic film set, or a dream paintball playground.

Scifi movie music + Firefly dialogue clips, 24 hours a day - http://www.scifiradio.com

Is that where they shot the Miranda scenes ? If not, it would have been a great place to do so.

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

PIRATENEWS

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 4:49 PM

Ready for the millions of unemployed Amerikan workers to move to Commie China and work for $2/day. But you must be a card-carrying member of the Democratic Communist Party of USSA.

RIONAEIRE

Wednesday, January 4, 2012 1:27 AM

So is it China or Mongolia. You're saying both, it must be one or the other since China doesn't own Mongolia. The idea of an abandoned city is just bizarre.

"A completely coherant River means writers don't deliver" KatTaya

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