Comments by "林子倫" (@zilun) on "Why Chinese President Xi’s $93B Personal Megacity Remains Empty | WSJ" video.

  1.  @Daedy  I live in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. There’s always construction everywhere. Heck, a 2-stories drive in motel right next to my building just got torn down and is now building a 20-stories condo. That doesn’t make where I live unlivable. I just bought a newly built vacation home in Sapporo. I guess my neighbors all HAD TO move out of their multi-million dollar homes during construction of my complex because their homes were unlivable with all that construction going on?
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  2. That’s not a good sign. 🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆
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  3.  @orbitalpotato9940  Shanghai was called a city that never sleeps before Chinese Communist Party was even born.
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  4.  @orbitalpotato9940  Shanghai was called the the city that never sleeps long before 1949.
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  5.  @alexchan8066  No city is ever complete. In Copenhagen, Kyoto, we can find buildings that had been there for centuries and infrastructures that were built last year. Cities are constantly morphing, they are never complete. U.S. didn’t built a San Francisco that looked like today’s San Francisco and force people to relocate there. San Francisco just happened.
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  6. @ Point was, no metropolis is ever “built”. A metropolis was a mega city before it was a metropolis. A mega city was a city before it was a mega city. A city was a town before it was a city. Is Starbucks planning a Jan 1st 2035 grand opening there with crowds but wouldn’t do it in Dec 2034 because there would be zero customers til 2035? It’s not going to be alive like an on-off switch, it’s going to become alive over time. Might as well let it start now.
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  7.  @Daedy  Build it in phases. Phase I accommodating 200k residents, phase II accommodating 1 mil residents. Phase III accommodating 5 mil residents. You might even discover plans for phase III need to be drastically altered after studying how 2mil living there actually live.
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  8. @ How’s that China-built attempt to replicate Singapore in a land in Malaysia? That one is “completed”, is it not? Still zero residents. A city isn’t an on off switch which you just switch it on.
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