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The most SOVLFVL place on the planet was destroyed in the 1990s
Ethan Parker
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Juan Bell
you like poverty?
Ayden Sullivan
>it may have been the city of darkness to outsiders, but to thousands who called it home, it was a friendly, tight-knit community that was poor but generally happy
Adrian Sanchez
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Blake Hall
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Oliver Walker
That's the kind of shit i hear white middle-upperclass housewives traveling to India and Colombia says (if they survive) from their bulletproof tour busses
Isaac Long
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I mean, the outside areas do look bad, but the houses were actually fairly nice on the inside according to residents who lived there who are still alive
Ethan Miller
The same line is often uttered by ex-yu deadbeats nostalgic about yugoslavia as they sit and drink beer half of the day while their dads lost fingers working 12 hour shifts.
Brayden Green
It was also a gigantic crime den full of drugs, prostitutions, extortion, robbery and murder.
I mean, it has a dystopic charm, but the place was by all means no paradise for the average dweller.
That said, people are adaptable to even the shittiest conditions.
Jeremiah Ortiz
>In March 1993, the settlement was demolished
And where did all the people go?
Ryan Cruz
They destroyed cyberpunk
Liam Myers
I have this framed hanging in my room, am I a soyboy?
Nolan Powell
they got resettled and compensated by britian, the area itself was formerly a chinese enclave inside hong kong, meaning it was under chinese jurisdiction, but they practically had no power over there due to it being directly inside the british colony of hong kong, and during the soviet revolution in china, many chinese fled there, since it was technically part of china they could settle there without any paper work. The place in that way was very similar to brazillian favelas just way more dense, in that it grew naturally, without any architects or health officials or any infrastructure officials watching over the process, and the place was practically anarchic yet residents still managed to keep the place somewhat functioning, each bringing their own profession from china, particularly dentistry, there were many dentists in kowloon for some reason, a lot of the unlicensed
Gavin Hernandez
>a lot of the unlicensed
a lot of them*
Colton Price
Kind of a shame it was razed. It would be a very interesting research object to see how humans develop without any "professionals" building, planning and developing the place to semi-function without a typical government, and then made into a museum later on. That knowledge could be useful in a proper post global disaster world.
Michael Brooks
a japanese guy who lived there actually created a recreation of the part he lived in as an arcade, they even imported trash from hong kong to scatter around
Isaiah Butler
We actually have something like "freetowns" in scandinavia too, the biggest and most famous probably being Christiania in Denmark.
However, compared to Kowloon's cramped and overpopulated town, it's an open paradise.
You won't find any dystopic cyberpunkiness here. Or even know that you were in a self ruled "town" within a town.
Jason Jenkins
holy fucking kino
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Jace Wood
there is one in shenzhen too
Ian Scott
firsties just wouldn't get it
Isaiah Adams
True enough. This is what Denmarks "kowloon" city looks like
Kayden Johnson
when it rained the water would reach waist high