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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

how can people stay sane if the numbers go up in a predictable fashion? My American brain cannot comprehend the horrors associated with repeating patterns in housing style and numbering.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (2 children)

North America, and Americans in particular, love to claim everything big. Big restaurants, big malls, big cars, big highways, big buildings, big country.

Except efficiency is somehow forgotten. So you get 12 lane highways that are constantly clogged with traffic. 100 floor office buildings that have lineups at the elevator between 8-9 and 17-1730. Strip malls that you have to get to by car even if you live next door. And transit that gets you nowhere.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

The American brain should be perfectly adapted to this sort of scenario! Just think it like one of those suburban cookie-cutter HOA developments, but vertical!

As for counting with multiple numbers, y’all love to do that already! feet & inches, pounds & ounces etc.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'm not an expert Chinologist, and it's a huge country, so it might vary, but AFAIK tipping isn't really a thing in China.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago (4 children)

We've heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

[–] [email protected] 43 points 2 days ago (4 children)

If you think about it elevators are just vertical trains

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

passes blunt

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 3 days ago (3 children)

There's a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Once saw a (German) documentary about this building. They have drop-off places on the ground floor where delivery drivers leave their goods in locked boxes. Payment and and locking/unlocking of the box is done digitally through phone.

P.S.: This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgVXPEORuA0

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The pizza guy very likely lives in the building too.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yeah, I've delivered pizza in a city of over 100k people. The whole idea of an address is to figure out where the destination is down to the personal residence. Doesn't matter if the people are spread out in a single building or many buildings.

I didn't go knocking on every door any time someone ordered pizza to an apartment. Biggest concern about apartments were if they had a buzzer, if that buzzer worked, and if the code matched the unit number or would be easy to figure out based on the information provided. And if it wasn't, their phone number was part of the information provided.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 3 days ago

That's way more than the population of the whole town I live in.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Any apartment building that size should have a couple floors of retail, especially food - they would make a fortune. If I lived there I would illegally sell teriyaki or something out of my apartment. Better still, run it like a street drug business - pay cooks and delivery people, and have distributors in between - they alone know where the kitchens are. Eventually it's the chicken fingers episode of Community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Apparently it does have amenities like shops, foodcourt, barber, and other stuff.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Costco recently opened a location in California that is also a high rise apartment building

Imagine, rotisserie chicken every day

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Why do such monolithic buildings give me such hell-on-earth vibes?

[–] [email protected] 61 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because that's exactly what we've created.

[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It's a matter of perspective and use


high density one place means you can have open space somewhere else, for a given amount of land.

I'd much prefer a few large dense housing complexes, surrounded by green space, than suburban sprawl.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I'd also prefer something denser than suburban sprawl, but I think there's a balance point between that and what the post is showing.

I think that 3-5 story apartments with shops underneath are the best ones, because they aren't too dense while also not wasting space.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Make those with decent construction so every cough and sneeze isn't broadcasted to all of your neighbors with good design so it's disability friendly, and that is the dream right there.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

That's bigger than my entire village 😳

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Food is delivered by pneumatic tubes.

Enjoy your pizza all scrambled and your soda is gonna go through nuclear fission 💥

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oh yes, the LHC: Large Hotdog Collider.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I would be surprised if there weren’t several shops dedicated to the building.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

So this is what Cyberpunk 2077 based its apartment complexes on

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don't look half bad.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures...

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago

I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I am the pizza delivery boy.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (8 children)

This might be better than most apartments I've lived in tbh, so it might work if looking out of the window and having the inescapable trap of modern life hit you in the face isn't a deal breaker for you

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago

Probably has its own Pizza Hut. Delivery guys don't need cars.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I'd assume the building has a trash collection chute. My old apartment building had one.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Poor delivery guy 📦 😰😂

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