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Tell me you're living half a decade in the past without telling me. "Ghost cities" are actually areas where the state preplanned urbanization so everything would be in place when people started moving in. In fact, most of these "ghost cities" are actually populated now.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in_China
Edit: could someone please explain why I'm being downvoted? I've provided a source to back up my statements. Or is this a case of "everything about China is bad because Red Scare"?
There's another side to this. "Pre-planning" without proper forecast led to the housing crisis we are seeing today in China, with one of the largest developers in China Evergrande defaulting and filing for bankruptcy. A lot of people who were promised a good property and sunk their life savings into the project, now have no choice but to live in unfinished buildings in ghost towns without electricity nor water.
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/10/31/crumbling-buildings-and-broken-dreams-chinas-unfinished-homes
https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/china-home-buyers-occupy-their-rotting-unfinished-properties-2022-09-26/
I haven't got into the article that much but sure, nothing is perfect.
Is it better to not even try and pretend its acceptable for people to be homeless, like they do almost everywhere else?
“Nothing is perfect” Is a hell of a way to minimize the enormity of the issue. Like wow…
at least you have something to criticize, ill take it over literally nothing any day.
Imagine being literally scammed into pouring your life savings into a property that is unfinished without electricity nor water, and then thinking "at least I have something so I shouldn't complain"? Those people actually had something before, now they're left with less than nothing.
you are acting as if everything was a big scam and literally everyone lost everything.
in reality this same thing happens occasionally all over the world all the time and has many possible paths for resolution.
Sure. Please find me articles about places that have incidents happening in a large scale like this right now then. Or do big companies like Evergrande just default occasionally all over the world in your books?
i have a feeling yoy can use google yourself to understand the situatuon
You're the one who made the argument. The responsibility lies on you.
Edit: and are you, who haven't posted a single link here yet, really telling me, who did provide news articles, to do my own research? How ironic.
im not your nanny, you might be capable of research if you look into it. go ahead and determine the truth, im not about to dig back stuff for some random dude on the internet.
Lol
lmao 👽