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by yorwba 15 days ago
When you go, I recommend you look at a map of how the local public transportation network is laid out physically (e.g. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shanghai_Metro_Linem... ) notice how it gets sparser further from the center, and explore one of the few-kilometer gaps on foot or by bike. Lest you end up thinking the future is evenly distributed. I used to live in the south near where the purple line 5 forks and went on a lot of walks. Half an hour from the university campus and technology park, there were people living in dilapidated houses, heating with coal in winter, a pipe under each house emptying into an open ditch, with children playing in the water in summer. That's China, too.