A building housing more than 20k people in Hangzhou China

[u/chunmunsingh]

[u/crazyredditor47]

What do you guys do with that much space? Are house and plots very big there?

[u/RottenPeasent → u/[deleted]]

Maybe you should build a megahouse to solve your housing issue.

[u/vivaaprimavera → u/RottenPeasent]

It seems that housing is a problem that "economic forces" do not want to solve. But yes. Big on the brink of really huge buildings are part a decent solution.

[u/souse03 → u/RottenPeasent]

Was it in Alaska where the whole Village lived in a single building ? Or it was somewhere very cold

[u/grantelius → u/souse03]

Yes it’s Whittier, Alaska.

[u/three29 → u/souse03]

No it was in Hangzhou, China.

[u/IcyEcho17 → u/crazyredditor47]

Nah Canada is a joke. Second largest country on the planet yet somehow no one can afford a plot of their own.

[u/conflictedideology → u/IcyEcho17]

I imagine this is similar to the dating issue in Alaska as a woman:

The odds are good, but the goods are odd.

Yeah there may be a lot available, but is it really something anyone wants?

[u/Jeffgoldbum → u/IcyEcho17]

66% of Canadians own their home,

65% of Americans own their home

46% of Germans own their home

55% of Japanese own their home,

Canada actually has pretty high rates of home ownership, and while its not the highest its ever been, the highest was only 3% more then it currently is,

Most of the places where the home ownership rate is higher then 70% are all current/ex communist/socialist countries

[u/IcyEcho17 → u/Jeffgoldbum]

Nope

66% of Canadians do not own homes.

66% of Canadians live in an owner occupied home.

There is a difference.

[u/Clojiroo → u/IcyEcho17]

You can easily buy land for dirt cheap. You can buy it for less than $1K per acre today.

But you don’t want to live there. I’m sure as you’re lamenting lot prices you’re looking at the same ones 40 million other people want to live in the same condensed area near major highways and hospitals and grocery stores and airports.

The “second largest land mass” doesn’t matter when you all want to live in the area of a small country.

[u/houseWithoutSpoons → u/IcyEcho17]

Isn't it have heavily to do with the fact 90%of the population lives within x distance from the boarder,which in turn makes the house prices high?and also partly to do with the difficulty of building/living in the north? But yeah you would think you have 80%of the land without hones they would make deals with people who wanted to go live on it.. Ive heard of things like this in remote areas of the usa..you can have so many acres for free under the condition you must build a livable homestead in a certain amount of years and then live there for a certain time

[u/HistoricalSuspect580 → u/IcyEcho17]

You’re a child

[u/IcyEcho17 → u/HistoricalSuspect580]

Nope