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A sprawling megacity of multi-level madness
- Artoooooor 2y agoNight City!
- neom 2y agoDW did a fantastic doc on Chongqing, made me wanna go check it out, seems pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49QRxO_n2c https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p49QRxO_n2c
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]
- renox 2y agoI wouldn't want to live in the appartment where the metro pass just nearby, exotic OK, but very noisy!
- lores 2y agoIt's apparently not awful; it's variously reported at 60 to 76dB depending on where you look: https://www.geonoise.com/train-passes-through-an-apartment-building-in-chongqing-china/ https://www.geonoise.com/train-passes-through-an-apartment-b... Although this paper indeed finds it can be a lot higher in the station: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378778822007150 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03787...
- halper 2y agoQuite hot in summer, but it is also where I have had what was quite possibly the tastiest noodles in my life.
- blackeyeblitzar 2y agoThere are some disorienting videos online from this city where the person is walking around on what looks like the ground floor only to come to an edge that reveals it is 20 floors off the actual ground.
- e40 2y agoSource?
- pcthrowaway 2y agoFor anyone who wants a better picture of what living in Chongqing is like, this man shows his commute to work, which involves almost nonstop downhill travel. He goes into the subway station for a while to take several kilometers of downhill escalators, but never actually takes a train: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1hhpubb/man_shows_how_far_down_he_has_to_go_to_get_to/ https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1hhpubb/...