Some pictures from around Shanghai
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Here some pictures I took from around Shanghai to share.
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The place is immaculately clean.
Property prices are out of our reach.
The tube trains are good, very clean, and very long, I guess a tube train must be almost 1km long.
The Chinese are certainly the masters of "mass moving people"
vette
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The place is immaculately clean.
Property prices are out of our reach.
The tube trains are good, very clean, and very long, I guess a tube train must be almost 1km long.
The Chinese are certainly the masters of "mass moving people"
vette
My grandad has lived out there for nearly 25 years and I've been a couple of tines as a child (in the 90s). It wasn't as it is now back then. Rubbish was dumped all over the place and there were lots of beggars around, the market areas were full of clearly very poor people and there were kids collecting water from the floor with a bottle. Although my expericence there wasn't a tourist business one.
I remember going in the tower pictured above, on one of the very top levels there was a perspex/glass floor, people on the ground looked like ants.
Another interesting memory I have is of a commercial size plane being escorted down the road outside the apartment in the middle of the night. Of course the road I'm talking about is 4 wide lanes in either direction plus a bike lane either side. IIRC the plane was located nearby and was actually used as a restaurant but it was put out of use by the owner. It wasn't escorted as a whole though, the wings were off and on the back of trucks but the body was being towed.
Also into property prices, my grandad move apartments around 8 years ago and ordered a new one that was in the process of being built in one of the high rises. He paid around $200,000 and reckons it's got to be worth 3/4 times more now.
Since I was last there in 1998 my grandad says the place has grown massively, with a much better road network and highways and the city is now pretty affluent. I've been begging him to let me visit one last time before he retires, but it's finding a mutual time when we can both make it.
I remember going in the tower pictured above, on one of the very top levels there was a perspex/glass floor, people on the ground looked like ants.
Another interesting memory I have is of a commercial size plane being escorted down the road outside the apartment in the middle of the night. Of course the road I'm talking about is 4 wide lanes in either direction plus a bike lane either side. IIRC the plane was located nearby and was actually used as a restaurant but it was put out of use by the owner. It wasn't escorted as a whole though, the wings were off and on the back of trucks but the body was being towed.
Also into property prices, my grandad move apartments around 8 years ago and ordered a new one that was in the process of being built in one of the high rises. He paid around $200,000 and reckons it's got to be worth 3/4 times more now.
Since I was last there in 1998 my grandad says the place has grown massively, with a much better road network and highways and the city is now pretty affluent. I've been begging him to let me visit one last time before he retires, but it's finding a mutual time when we can both make it.
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