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Can confirm. San Francisco makes it all but impossible to build. (Twitter)
- bobfromla 5y agoTrue, but it's hard to compare China to the US market. Health, Safety, Welfare and Sustainability are allowed to accept more risk in those "innovative" markets. That being said, San Francisco might be the hardest US market to build in given the complex politics, culture and competition.
- dredmorbius 5y agoChina certainly has quality issues with construction. See "tofu-dreg project": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tofu-dreg_project
- dredmorbius 5y agohttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1452714451652710403.html https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1452714451652710403.html
- Factorium 5y agoChinese new buildings are terrible to live in. Its totally reasonable for the USA to require decent quality.
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- helen___keller 5y agoReally? I’ve visited relatives new-ish condos in a tower in middle of nowhere Anhui and it perfectly nice. OTOH, anything older like pre 2000 was pretty dumpy unless it was extensively renovated. The older houses were single family homes or townhouses, often with no heating, awful showers, etc etc.
- hindsightbias 5y agoCan confirm. If only we had bulldozed The Mission ten years back, we’d have enought towers for everybody now.