This is Nanjing, Jiangsu province.
Wikipedia image:
Looks too pretty, let’s get one that makes it look like smog (even if it’s just fog)
Image from a Guardian article:
Is it really worthy owning a house without the freedom to be exploited?
There’s a saying, “Every cloud has a silver lining.” The people who write these articles are the reverse of that. They’re like, “Every sunrise includes somebody dying. Have you considered the cost of the sun rising? HAVE YOU?!? You think it’s valid to be happy about anything a commie does?!?”
willing to bet the scaremongering article goes “well, actually, Chinese people don’t own their homes outright they have to re-lease it from the government every 75 years. under GoMmUnIsM nobody owns anything” as if that long of a lease isn’t literally reasonable for a human with a normal human lifespan to just consider it something they own.
They own their homes more than westerners do. In the west homeowners have to pay property taxes to the state, effectively rent. If you don’t pay they will take your home away and sell it. In China you pay a fee every 70 years and that’s it.
Who owns their homes more?
I’ve heard this argument before, but this was also the norm in the UK, up until Thatcher happened. And I believe it’s still the model in big European cities like Berlin or Paris.
Do you maybe have a source for the 70-75 years re-lease? I need to have that available lol
it’s 70 years for urban residential land rights (most typical housing). baidu article also as of 2021, residential land use rights are automatically renewed. article from people’s daily, the official print of the communist party of china
more than welcome to use machine translation of your choice
Cheers!
something I noticed about pictures like the one used in this article is that this particular type of city layout looks really bad from above but if you imagine how it looks from below where you can’t see the fact that all of the high rises are the same because they’re blocked by trees it really seems ideal compared to just, to pick a totally random example, the paved hellscape that is Los Angeles
i wonder what specific property owning dream they’re referring to. the dream to own your home? or the dream to be a landlord?
The dream of rising above the riffraff through passive income from speculative investment
is it really worth it if investors lose money? 😭
but america has coke and sydney sweeney so clearly capitalism is the best possible system (please don’t look at our poverty statistics)
