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The article argues they are miserable because their governance is subpar with many factions controlling different aspects as well as lacking coordination with n
by mc32 10mo ago
The article argues they are miserable because their governance is subpar with many factions controlling different aspects as well as lacking coordination with neighboring peripheral governing bodies and all this ends up in poor services for residents.
People more there for opportunity and the opportunity appears better in those miserable places than in the hinterlands... and so they move.
- esafak 10mo agoFormer prime minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew, on a related note: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/25DCT8w7JHI https://www.youtube.com/shorts/25DCT8w7JHI
- lazylizard 10mo agosomewhat interesting right? ho chi minh, instead of combining with adjoining areas into a "metro hcmc" like metro manila, actually spun off thu duc.. and yeah. dmk airport is inside bangkok while bkk is in the next province.. why only can color within the lines?
- wenc 10mo agoI live in NYC. That sounds more like NYC. Most mega cities in Asia Pacific at least have newer infrastructure and social norms that make them less miserable. NYC is miserable in some ways (crumbling infrastructure, broken social norms especially post COVID) and not in others (creativity, passion). Some days I feel the latter makes up for the former. But the former is still bad.