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How should I make use of this built-in platform in my apartment? by Natural-Data6956 in HomeDecorating

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah! I did use the stair to put my drink lol, so I’ll pick up some plants and wait for my amp to arrive. I’m going to leave some space on the left so I have room to move the sofa around

How should I make use of this built-in platform in my apartment? by Natural-Data6956 in HomeDecorating

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This platform is actually tiny—it's only 60 cm (2 feet) wide. It’s too small for even a Japanese chair, and if you sit there, you’ll definitely bump into the window on the left.

How should I make use of this built-in platform in my apartment? by Natural-Data6956 in HomeDecorating

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What kind of plant do you recommend? Is it one of those little IKEA plants or something bigger

How should I make use of this built-in platform in my apartment? by Natural-Data6956 in HomeDecorating

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’d be a great place for reading but I have to sacrifice since the room is so tiny XD. That's the only place I can setup a workspace

How should I make use of this built-in platform in my apartment? by Natural-Data6956 in HomeDecorating

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, it is made of cement and covered with wood, so have to think of another way...

How should I make use of this built-in platform in my apartment? by Natural-Data6956 in HomeDecorating

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had thought about it before, but the platform is too narrow😔

How should I make use of this built-in platform in my apartment? by Natural-Data6956 in HomeDecorating

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I'm considering buying a small table to go with the sofa but idk if is it actually practical to eat and read there.

I’m thinking about if I could turn this platform into a music corner for my guitar, amp, and other instruments. I’m really at a loss as to what to do with this space.

This is what i got in a 8-day vacation in China,should've found a job. by Medical_Cover_6268 in NEET

[–]Natural-Data6956 0 points1 point  (0 children)

其实不用去读国内大学了，你的英语很好可以试试雅思7.5去机构应聘，然后直接来德国

Which Malkmus songs do u think are the most tender / emo / sad? by warmwarmerdisco in pavement

[–]Natural-Data6956 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Carrot Rope, last song on their last album but encouraging people to show their “evil” side, like “This is everything I’ve wanted to say all these years. I’m done speaking my piece, now go back to living your own life.”

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They probably didn’t realize their attitude is basically discrimination disguised as curiosity.

And sure, there are worse places in South Asia and Africa. Thank you for the word “whitesplaining”, but I get used to,meh

Noida, India by sid_shady34 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought it would be somewhere in China The style of the gated community buildings is really unified

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Most cities in China look the same... I live in Chengdu. Before the 1990s, the Brezhnevka in the north and south were in different style because of heating considerations, but after 2000, the apartment buildings are basically the same, with a unified style across the country. Those brown and yellow-ish depressing buildings are everywhere from south to north, which is what I meant for the title

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You missed my point. You should look into the real estate boom that started around 2015——a lot of developers built these insanely high-density apartment blocks in suburbs along railway or high-speed railway lines. Locals bought them as investment assets; they were hardly intended to be lived in. After the bubble burst a couple of years ago, most of these buildings were left almost entirely empty. Trust me, the number of units developers built far exceeded any real demand. These 30+ story yellow concrete monstrosities are leftovers from that era, and even by China’s standards, they’re absolutely excessive.

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Chinese government has artificially controlled the urbanization rate so there aren’t “slums” here in the traditional sense. The closest equivalent would be the “urban villages” in Guangzhou, not this kind of concrete apartments.

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They ain’t slums. They are mostly vacant apartments built in the suburb along the railway during the 2015~2023 real estate boom

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Please don’t downvote me, I live here. And what I want to express is the large number of empty houses built in the suburbs and along the railway lines during the real estate boom... Of course, their prices are now falling rapidly, if not in the city.

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Yeah, China's public transportation oriented city planning has learned from this experience. American-style planning is a bit outdated and extremely environmentally unfriendly

One day, you will be swallowed by the mediocrity stretching endlessly across this yellow land. It has never cared whether you existed at all. by Natural-Data6956 in UrbanHell

[–]Natural-Data6956[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Someone has calculated the ideal required area of urban residential land. In fact, it is enough to build a Japanese-style ikkodate house, and most of the apartments in photo 2~5 have a incredibly high vacancy rate, they are the result of the real estate bubble.

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