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> [...] and after talking about Neom in all enthusiasm for a bit the interviewer asked each a simple question: would you live in Neom? I wonder what the archit

• oblio 4y ago
  As someone who's lived in a commie building, smaller than the one you show, though, I can tell you something. It's better housing that what you find in many parts of the rich West, at least Western Europe. You can live a pretty solid middle class life in those buildings and you're not losing much, if anything, you learn a lot, being so close to other people.
• panick21_ 4y ago
  Those are different things. The promise of Neom is to be this amazing tech city that will attract people to live there. The building you posted is most likely a public housing or some kind of government trying to build housing for the poor.
  • DemocracyFTW2 4y ago
    Well it's actually more likely a block of condos (by which I mean apartments all individually sold to owners who then move in or rent out) in China, and judging from this zoomable version https://www.flickr.com/photos/photocapy/252736005 https://www.flickr.com/photos/photocapy/252736005 it's actually not even vacant. So, not housing for the poor paid for by taxes but rather housing for the above-the-medians who can afford a flat of their own (not cheap even in China I hear).
  • N19PEDL2 4y ago
    > The promise of Neom is to be this amazing tech city that will attract people to live there. That's a good point.