Thread 17910103

How did the Kowloon Walled City even fucking manage to exist? Everything about this place is baffling. Didn't the people living there realize that it was a living hell?

Lack of zoning regulations
It was SOVLful af, entire tight-knit communities co-existing in reduced spaces

>>17910103 (OP)
>How did the Kowloon Walled City even fucking manage to exist?
It was something like a piece of land owned by the CCP inside HK which was kind of abandoned IIRC.
>Didn't the people living there realize that it was a living hell?
Nobody moves to a slum because they think it's cool. They lived there because they didn't have better options.

>>17910103 (OP)
Oh my gosh this is such an interesting subject. Bump. I've had dreams about being on the lowest levels, the ones where sunlight never even made it through.

>>17910114
>Didn't the people living there realize that it was a living hell?
Yeah I don't know what level of stupid it takes to ask this question

Imagine the smell

Sometimes when life outside is worse, the “hell” becomes a sanctuary.

>>17910103 (OP)
>How did the Kowloon Walled City even fucking manage to exist?

Unrestrained libertarian capitalism but that being said, a bazillion Chinese lived there because it was _still better_ than communism.

>>17910314
>capitalism is when bad things happen

>>17910519
Surprisingly a lot of Marxists believe tripe like this.

>>17910103 (OP)
The more I read about life for the average chang in any time period the more I understand why they are like they are

Seemed cozy in a way libertarian paradise while being unbelievably social, how do I have nostalgia for a life I never lived?

>>17910519

As I pointed out, communism was far worse, which is why millions of Chinese flooded into Hong Kong, which was renown as a libertarian capitalist paradise.

>>17910689
Communism is BASED and REDPILLED.

>>17910112
>tight-knit communities
It sure was tight

>>17910611
>hong kong is massive
>deranged westoid focuses on the shitty part

typical

>>17910759
>hong kong is massive

?

>>17910759
>>deranged westoid
Hong Kong wasn't even independent at that point, Chang.

>>17910103 (OP)

It's honestly a miracle this place lasted long enough to be demolished as a health and safety hazard instead of being incinerated by a kitchen fire that killed thousands.

>>17910767
>westoid tries to jew

kowloon walled is a small part of HK and you know it kike

>>17910769
What are you even trying to say golem

>>17910519
yes.

>>17910793
>tries to jew
chang, we both know you and your co-ethnics have zero compunction in (if anything you take pride in) 'jewing' over non-changs.

>>17910759
thousands of your based yellow river brothers (and sisters) used a technicality in hong kong zoning to turn a decrepit former british fortress into a bug hive. the fact you consider this a black mark on 'westoids' and not a searing indictment of your own bug people says it all, really

>>17910877
fucking hell you're retarded. who said that? kike msm?

>you're just as bad as we are! EVEN WORSE!
>can you prove that
>uhhh

pure projection

>>17910885
chang, we know your co-ethnics literally buy books about the jews in the hopes it will provide insight into how to manipulate the dumb gweilos better, come off it

>>17910883
>result of colonization/capitalism
>it's your fault!!

jew pilpul

>>17910891
they purged people like this in the 2010s lol

funny how it's an english book

kike

>>17910114
>Nobody moves to a slum because they think it's cool
have you met young people? they go there to "be free" and some prefer the squalor to "conforming to society's oppressive norms (, man!)". look how people live who occupy abandoned buildings and form anarcho-marxist (or whatever) communes. and plenty of them could move back to their parents any time.

>>17910896
Yes because private companies make zoning laws. Lol, lmao even.

>>17910896
>>17910902
I just thought that, with your - what, 6,000 years of civilisation - your intelligence branch would have a better argument than
>gweilo dissidents dislike the big noses
>we say big noses hate china
>gweilo dissidents love us now!

>>17910911
Can you post some examples of these commune never heard of them in cities, commune are usually a white people cult thing in the country.

>>17912250
In Poznań there used to be a squat commune at the corner of the historic town square but they got evicted.
Good.

>>17912296
That will be 3000zł per month + utilities to live in a windowless closet, saar. Don't forget to tip the landlord - wasze ulice, nasze kamienice.

>>17910911
This is mostly because poverty and hunger are largely eliminated in developed countries i.e people might be "poor" but they aren't actually needy.

>>17910103 (OP)
The ideal walkable city