Re:Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (2015)
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday February 05, 2022 @05:43PM
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I don't think that is very normal in HK. Ya, they have a lot of tall buildings, but people still go out to shop/eat/work (unless you mean...they never have to go outside because of the subway tunnels in Central HK?). Maybe when the Kowloon walled city was still around, but that is just an area that turned into a bunch of buildings that grew into each other.
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Re:Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (2015)
by bobthepanda on Saturday February 05, 2022 @08:10PM
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Right, the interesting thing is that the people here literally do not have a choice.
In non-pandemic times, HK people live like people in any other city; they usually don't work where they live, and often times they don't necessarily do all their shopping there either, because people like variety. (Although with how crazy the real estate was getting in Hong Kong, I remember each visit that it seemed like each mall was slowly turning into the same chains and whatnot in every one.)
Re:Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (2015)
by seanmcdirmid on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:30PM
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> Although with how crazy the real estate was getting in Hong Kong, I remember each visit that it seemed like each mall was slowly turning into the same chains and whatnot in every one.
That's just normal for the rest of China as well. HK still has much more retail diversity than say Shenzhen, but the gap is closing quickly.
Re:Alaska's one-house town, home to hundreds (2015)
by bobthepanda on Saturday February 05, 2022 @09:35PM
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Yeah, I've not been to the mainland so I can't say much about that part.
At least in HK it's particularly bad in the new town areas like Tsueng Kwan O and Ma On Shan, since there isn't really much traditional non-mall retail to begin with in those areas.