Anyone ever travel to the parts of china with all the unused abandoned buildings? Those ghost cities(I heard they’re mostly just shitty buildings made to be an investment but not really lived in but I could be wrong). Was it interesting? You try going into the buildings? Was it creepy or just boring?They look kinda creepy to me ngl. Just these huge empty monolithsPicrel
>>2736177bumping. I want to go to China and go cycling and see all this cool stuff. But I'm worried about the government.
>>2736177I've been through places that look exactly like this (around Shaoxing and Hangzhou). I cannot believe people live in those. There is nothing but residential towers around there and it's incredibly depressing to me. I also find living in any building more than 3 floors tall a suboptimal experience. Getting inside and outside should take 20 seconds max.
This is a dystopian hell.Not meant for habitation.
>>2736177I have not been to outright ghost cities, to the extent there are any, not really sure, but Ive been to new sections of cities that are effectively the same and its mainly just boring. The empty buildings are just incomplete construction sites. Chinese don't do interior decoration/renovation until someone actually buys it and moves in so they dont look finished on the inside. If there's anything going on at all its a few shitty cheap restaurants and maybe some low key brothels if you're lucky.>>2736238There is nothing to worry about from the gov unless you go out of your way to cause trouble. Lots of foreigners myself included road trip all around the country. I've never cycled but I think if you were going to get in trouble cycling I'd have gotten in trouble road tripping by now
>>2736440It's great when you have unspoiled nature easily accessible from your high-rise bugbox. The apartments are bigger than you think. That's why they build up, to loterally create living space out of thin air
Also, I bet squatters and the mafia are using these buildings. You'd rather encounter the police, uptight as they are.
>>2736457cyclists often sleep outside as we're not as pampered as the average 'road tripper' who is zipping from tourist hotspot to tourist hotspot and staying at hotels with hot showers and wifi. Police in these psycho countries generally dislike people who sleep in tents outside and/or dont carry cellphones they can track.
>>2736556> the average 'road tripper' who is zipping from tourist hotspot to tourist hotspot and staying at hotels with hot showers and wifiIn typical cyclist fashion you're being a needlessly condescending cunt. I'm telling you I've driven aka roadtripped around remote parts of the country that arent tourist spots without trouble. Lots of people camp in China. Get over yourself
>>2736177Yes. If you spend any time travelling through rural China you will probably see these. Some of them seem to be partly occupied, but a lot of them appear to have been vacant for years. On asking locals about them I've been told 1) They're investment properties and will be occuppied by retirees, 2) They were built for farmers by the government in an effort to improve rural housing but the farmers refuse to live in them because it is too difficult to access their fields from them and/ or they can't afford the utility costs.
>>2736571NTA, do you think I could feasibly just take my tent and camp random places in Yunan and Szechuan?
>>2736532>You'd rather encounter the police, uptight as they are.In China, the police are the mafia. They treat foreigners/tourists with kid gloves though.
>>2736571your defensiveness reveals your arrogance and inherit knowledge of the deeper truth. cyclists don't simply flop from hostel to hostel attending fratbro pee-pee parties. when you're getting the taxi driver to carry your bags I'm packing my gear up an 8% gradientwhen you're adjusting the A/C on your bus ride I'm riding into rain or snowwhen you're on your sixth beer I'm purifying water from a glacial creek
>>2736951Yes to both but you should get guidance from locals on good spots especially in Yunnan as there is some weird stuff that happens there with the border/Myanmar>>2736963kek
>>2736177Just imagine drinking that water, anyone that did would go glowy and radioactive within a couple minutes.
>>2736963This is very amusing if intentional (even more so if not)
>>2736177What's funny to me are these fucking freaks making fun of the USA and the UK while not looking at themselves. They really need to look at themselves. They're nothing but fucking stupid punks.
>>2737084It's very intententional, they're democrats like shillary clintion, very sore losers.
>>2736177what do these doors mean? also what is 88? what are they selling?
>>2737297Its an ad for a prozzie but its more than likely a scam
>>2737315there's a lot of these cds and even cis women on twitter selling services. It seems pretty common in China now that I've been going through Twitter networks. I'm getting you have to pay 88 yuan to speak with them about meeting before being able to message them on we chat.
>>2736440he said, from a country fun of homeless people doing drugs and gangs shooting people in the streetoh no the big scary unoccupied housing! y'all need some education.
Goddamn Chinafags, can't we get a /CHG/ going instead of all these different threads?Nearly all of Europe can now visit China visa-free for 30 days. Vietnam as well. No such luck for burgers, USA so Third World we have to apply for permission to visit Asian countries, kek.
>>2737955There was one with 300 replies it just died yesterday. Feel free to make a new one. I agree theres like 4 threads that should just be China General questions
>>2737955>>2737956the generals get spammed, so it makes sense they aren't being made
>>2736177Western press calls them ghost cities because they build a shit load at once before anything is ready to be lived in.Then people move in and no one reports on it.
>>2738590>N....Nothing to see here, 老外>E...Everything is fine. China numba wan!
>>2738590>Then people move inA few people moved in. I was in China last year and these things are everywhere, mostly sitting empty. It's no secret that the Chinese real estate market is in the shitter.
They called Shenzhen a ghost city too, at one point.
>>2738769Apples to oranges. Shenzhen was a fishing village that grew into a manufacturing hub, not a bunch of empty high rises in the middle of a cornfield. Most of these things are going to be knocked down and the only way to make sense of it is to conclude that they were built to grease somebody's palm.
>>2738767https://www.reuters.com/world/china/even-chinas-14-bln-population-cant-fill-all-its-vacant-homes-former-official-2023-09-23/it was the best form of investment in china for decades, and that's all falling apart now. factor in the declining population and you have a recipe for disaster
Anywhere in Shanghai that has cool alleys like in Hong Kong?
>>2740064Shanghai particularly the FFC is full of cool alleys but they are 1) mostly residential ie no shops on the inside 2) totally different vibe/aesthetic than HKThey are quite nice places to get an apartment, or to wander around, but if specifically comparing to HK may not be what you're looking for
>>2736963but you still act like a little faggot in tights
>>2738590>pressHundreds of YouTube vloggers who visited China are suddenly the press? Or even independent Chinese media that got nuked by the CCP but their footage is still on YouTube showing families living in total darkness because the power for the entire ghost city was cut indefinitely? China is a shithole retard, stop trying to sugar coat it. The reason we actually all go there is for reasons we can't talk about on this board anymore without getting banned, which is why there's no threads for it.
>>2740581>China is a shitholeThere are parts of it that are shithole-tier, but not what the average tourist visits
>>2740587Anon you can't even drink the tap water in your hotel, the fuck are you on.
>>2740644In most major cities you can, though. But Chinese people fear water for religious reasons so it's not common.
>>2740659This is Herodotus tier travelogue bullshit. They boil tap water to make it potable because it's disgusting, especially in major cities.
