Yes the public transit is better than the US. (in Guangzhou at least)
However, the actual apartment building I used to live in as a kid, it was so shitty and its deteriorating… I hated that place.
Its like… if you make a lot of money and can afford a good place to live, it’s fine, but if you are poor, its miserable.
The difference between my area and just a 10 minute walk away to the nearby mall area, was so fucking massive, like decades of development apart, as if you time travelled. Its like: the mall was facing the street so itlooked so nice, then you walk 10 minutes, it looks worse and worse. Literally looks worse than Kensington, Philly (well probably minus the drugs thing, cuz illegal drugs are impossible to get in China, I’m talking aboit how clean the streets looked and how stable the buildings are). Its not like tourists are gonna wander into some alleyway and see what horrible place people actually lived in. It’s urban hell.
I live in Philly now, which is regarded by many as a very “slummy” city, but where I live now… this place still looks less bad than where I used to live in Guangzhou.
with tankies, they salivate over any news of china, but they would never live there themselves.
Idk I’d live there if I had the chance. The trains seem neat ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Yes the public transit is better than the US. (in Guangzhou at least)
However, the actual apartment building I used to live in as a kid, it was so shitty and its deteriorating… I hated that place.
Its like… if you make a lot of money and can afford a good place to live, it’s fine, but if you are poor, its miserable.
The difference between my area and just a 10 minute walk away to the nearby mall area, was so fucking massive, like decades of development apart, as if you time travelled. Its like: the mall was facing the street so itlooked so nice, then you walk 10 minutes, it looks worse and worse. Literally looks worse than Kensington, Philly (well probably minus the drugs thing, cuz illegal drugs are impossible to get in China, I’m talking aboit how clean the streets looked and how stable the buildings are). Its not like tourists are gonna wander into some alleyway and see what horrible place people actually lived in. It’s urban hell.
I live in Philly now, which is regarded by many as a very “slummy” city, but where I live now… this place still looks less bad than where I used to live in Guangzhou.