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I'm curious, how does a place like Hong Kong handle this? It's another large city that's locked on 3 sides by water (they do have other islands but I imagine th
by HaloZero 11y ago
I'm curious, how does a place like Hong Kong handle this? It's another large city that's locked on 3 sides by water (they do have other islands but I imagine the population is not signifiant on those).
I know rent in the city even in the fancy condos is expensive but they still have their working class workers. Where do they live?
- santaclaus 11y ago> It's another large city that's locked on 3 sides by water Or Manhattan, for that matter.
- enjo 11y agoIn Manhattan's case the workers increasingly live off the island (as opposed to the northern slums).
- ghaff 11y agoIn Manhattan's case, there's a generally good public transit system that lets people commute to (relatively) inexpensive communities like Queens fairly easily.
- kafkaesq 11y agoRight -- which tends to moderate the up-ending effects of rising real estate costs in NYC to a significant degree. That, and the fact that (within city limits) public transit is much more affordable than BART (plus whatever secondary transit needed to get to/from BART).
- ghaff 11y agoShort answer, it's not pretty: http://www.hk-magazine.com/article/10676/coffin-homes-subdivided-flats-and-partitioned-rooms-hong-kong http://www.hk-magazine.com/article/10676/coffin-homes-subdiv...
- sbov 11y agoBasically they don't. The average price per square foot in Hong Kong is insane despite their swarm of high rises.