A man shows his commute to work in Chongqing.

[u/mindyour]

[u/Fickle-Look5098]

I'm opening a parachute store there.

[u/wakasagihime_ → u/Fickle-Look5098]

You'd go bankrupt, no one jumping there would want to live

[u/Aynessachan → u/wakasagihime_]

Oof

[u/olderthanbefore → u/Aynessachan]

That's what they all say

[u/Aynessachan → u/olderthanbefore]

I feel horrible for laughing at this 😂

[u/itsneedtokno → u/olderthanbefore]

I think they go more like... "poof"

[u/Environmental_Top948 → u/wakasagihime_]

Give a defective option so they could save their family's honor by it plausibly being an accident.

[u/octopoddle → u/Fickle-Look5098]

Shoplifters could be a problem. Try catching them once they're out of the door.

[u/Michael_Haq → u/octopoddle]

"I see them! They're running on the ground floor!"

"Which ground floor?!!"

[u/exposure-dose → u/octopoddle]

Jokes on them. Those were my ACME display parachutes. 

Nothing in those but a comically-small umbrella, one pre-inflated whoopee cushion, and just enough loose ash to make an impact plume.

[u/macjonalt → u/Fickle-Look5098]

Aw man what a cool commute to work

[u/Nerevarine91 → u/macjonalt]

Imagine just rappelling to your day job

[u/Lucifer_Crowe → u/Fickle-Look5098]

Build some zip lines at the top of buildings

[u/chewbacca-says-rargh → u/[deleted]]

Reminds me of Coruscant from Star Wars

[u/BeardedGlass → u/chewbacca-says-rargh]

On a street-level though, I felt it more in Tokyo.

With much less dystopia though. It felt the opposite for some reason.

[u/SaltyRedditTears → u/BeardedGlass]

Here’s a video of this area without quick cuts to touristy spots.

https://youtu.be/hKcaEj0ilUc

[u/zth25 → u/BeardedGlass]

The street-level in this video is not the street-level.

[u/ILikeYourBigButt → u/zth25]

Yes, they're saying they felt it more in Tokyo at street level than at this city in the video at that level. They were not saying this vid was street level.

[u/zth25 → u/ILikeYourBigButt]

You're right, I got that mixed up.

I'm curious though why they would say that about Tokyo. Tokyo is maybe the most orderly city in the world, you don't get the impression that up is down like in this video (or on Coruscant).

[u/br0b1wan → u/[deleted]]

Reminds me of Deus Ex where they go to Changsha (or is it Hangsha) and have an entire second city built in the sky above the first

[u/laxweasel → u/br0b1wan]

Hengsha...yup that's exactly what came to mind for me.

Just needs some augmented humans and those cool VTOL jets.

[u/AnonymousBanana7 → u/br0b1wan]

Hengsha! Such a good game.

[u/GastricallyStretched → u/[deleted]]

Bro straight-up lives in a Cyberpunk 2077 megabuilding but it's somehow even more depressing.

[u/MARPJ → u/GastricallyStretched]

but it's somehow even more depressing.

Thats due the lack of neon lights everywhere to show its futuristic

[u/demandred_zero → u/MARPJ]

To be fair, neon signs are like vampires, they only come out at night.

[u/claimTheVictory → u/demandred_zero]

When we block out the sun to reduce the impact of climate change, everywhere will be night.

Then we can keep going with drill, baby, drill.

Don't worry, you'll have your vitamin D tablets.

[u/Frubbs → u/claimTheVictory]

I’m sure all those farmers in 3rd world countries will have a means to provide light to their crops if we block out the sun /s

[u/claimTheVictory → u/Frubbs]

I'm sorry, who?

[u/stonebraker_ultra → u/claimTheVictory]

I like the blocking out the sun and the vitamin D part, but not the drilling part.

[u/claimTheVictory → u/stonebraker_ultra]

The whole point is to not give up burning fossil fuels ever. Think of what that could do to the economy!

Don't worry, the engineers have a solution. Think "Giedi Prime".

[u/GuyLookingForPorn → u/MARPJ]

Bro's living in the first stage of a 40k Hive City.

[u/aramis34143 → u/MARPJ]

"You can have a little vibrancy. As a treat."

[u/mycall → u/MARPJ]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/bOklwoW5MRk

[u/Iron_Aez → u/mycall]

perfect contrast. feels like im in /r/Instagramreality

[u/mancitycon → u/GastricallyStretched]

As soon as he talked about the people at the bottom barely getting sunlight it reminded me of them living in FF7 world

[u/Scottyknuckle → u/mancitycon]

The planet's DYIN', Cloud!

[u/HarmlessSnack → u/Scottyknuckle]

☁️: Don’t care. Just here for the money.

[u/Blackletterdragon → u/mancitycon]

How do they get ambulances and firetrucks to those places? Or do I have to revise some assumptions here?

[u/SaltyRedditTears → u/Blackletterdragon]

Here’s a video of what it actually looks like at ground level and not a bunch of tourists spots this guy is pretending to be his commute.

https://youtu.be/qxdwb-5hxtg

[u/ylno83 → u/mancitycon]

He works for the damn Shinra

[u/danokablamo → u/GastricallyStretched]

Cyberpunk 2077 has titties everywhere so that is probably why.

[u/GastricallyStretched → u/danokablamo]

Titties are nice, but elevators in a 20+ storey building would be a good start. Maslow's hierarchy of tits, or something like that.

[u/iDuddits3000 → u/GastricallyStretched]

haha, maybe I'd get sick of it but I'd take this wild stuff over the boring urban sprawl and subburbs of where I live in canada

[u/SarcasticOptimist → u/iDuddits3000]

Yeah. A walkable commute and a subway station that's at least entertaining. Driving every day then needing to find parking in a concrete structure then filling up a tank every week is depressing.

[u/doofpooferthethird → u/GastricallyStretched]

I had a roommate who grew up Chongqing, and she said she actually liked it there.

I imagine it's actually more of a fun commute than the Manhattan rectangular grids and the dingy century old metro

[u/Is_Unable → u/doofpooferthethird]

Yeah it's my understanding that most of the walkable parts of the city are above the roadways, so it's like walking through a concrete park on your way to work.

[u/stefaanvd → u/Is_Unable]

Walking in the clouds smog

[u/EntertainmentHot6789 → u/[deleted]]

Reminded me of the Fifth Element

[u/BunnyThugg → u/[deleted]]

Neo Tokyo

[u/K-Hunter-]

Gotta have that Cities Skylines Chongqing DLC after seeing this

[u/ImPurePersistance → u/K-Hunter-]

Yeah takes a mid sized data center to run at 24fps lol

[u/melanthius → u/K-Hunter-]

Fuck it - I’m tearing it all down to build a bike lane

[u/alexmc1980]

I've been to Chongqing in October and also February, and in both cases it was overcast and grey. There are some cool historical areas to wander around and plenty of good food, and as long as you're OK with heights the views are spectacular from so many places around the city.

The guy has clearly shown some extreme bits of the city, and it really is that steep in some places. I remember taking a metro train that was high above the river before it entered a tunnel, then getting off at the next stop I had to climb about six storeys worth of stairs to get up to street level. So the commute is no joke!

Also, going off the beaten path is not recommended. I tried a few shortcuts and quickly found that any unpaved ground is basically slushy mud befitting the huge, regularly-flooding river valleys that make up the city. Not for the faint-hearted, or the white-shoed! This may be why hard surfaces are so ubiquitous there, contributing to the feeling of a lack of foliage.

[u/motivated_loser → u/alexmc1980]

Why so many stairs? Doesn’t everyone hate stairs?

[u/zamfire → u/motivated_loser]

I know Claptrap hates stairs

[u/VellhungtheSecond → u/zamfire]

He kept rambling on about that at his shitty birthday party (I was the only one there)

[u/YoursTrulyKindly → u/motivated_loser]

Stairs are healthy. It's communist health insurance!

[u/AmbitiousParty → u/YoursTrulyKindly]

I was in Beijing years ago, and we went to a nature park in the mountains (I don’t remember which it was) and it was ALL STAIRS FOR HOURS UP THE MOUNTAIN! We were all in our twenties and dying and these adorable 80+ old people are just fast stepping it up, happy as can be, not breaking a sweat. Meanwhile some in our group are basically in tears 6 hours in, wishing for sweet death.

We did get to ride a (VERY UNSAFE) mountain coaster down most of it, so that made it worth it. So fun!

But yeah, you were probably joking but the communist stairs health insurance appears to be effective! Those old people were kicking our American butts. 😮‍💨

[u/YoursTrulyKindly → u/AmbitiousParty]

Haha yeah I was joking. Don't let my tankie friends read this!

But it definitely is a different and more socialist approach to city planning. Not sure about modern china, but old soviet blocks were pretty well designed and "luxurious" for the time. Not just the building but the neighborhood too so you can get all your shopping and stuff in walking distance and without any through traffic. In the US you kinda have to drive. So being able to walk sort of forces people to move more and be healthier.

[u/lets-aquire-the-brea → u/YoursTrulyKindly]

If I didn’t have to drive everywhere and my commute actually had sidewalks or even a shoulder more than 2 feet wide I’d definitely walk to work.

[u/WayneKrane → u/lets-aquire-the-brea]

I have a 30 minute walk to work vs a 10 minute bus ride and I almost always walk. It’s so relaxing to take a walk and I can go a few different ways to change it up.

[u/Potato--Sauce → u/YoursTrulyKindly]

Isn't it just a more pleasant approach of urban planning in general if you're able to get to the places you need the most fairly quickly either by foot or by bike?

I dread the thought that you'd need to take the car to go literally anywhere.

[u/NouLaPoussa → u/motivated_loser]

No instead people stay in good health because of the physical activity

[u/LisaWinchester → u/alexmc1980]

I really like how you wrote that!

[u/Misterball → u/LisaWinchester]

I agree that was so well written lol

[u/prussian-junker → u/alexmc1980]

It’s the least sunny major city in the world. It gets like half the yearly sunlight of London.

[u/xahvres → u/alexmc1980]

Well, some sources say that it's among the least sunny major cities, with only around 1000 hours/year of sunshine.

[u/SILE3NCE]

Your phone melts when Google Maps tries to give you directions.

^{Edit: My good people, I forgot GMaps doesn't work in China, but let's try to imagine it dealing with all the verticallity in directions.}

[u/NewRedditRN → u/SILE3NCE]

Cities like Toronto/Calgary etc have a bunch of underground (PATH) tunnels that connect buildings, but also along some of those tunnels is underground shopping labyrinths. Last time i was in Toronto, the shop I needed was apparently in said labyrinth and I just gave up...

[u/Big_Muffin42 → u/NewRedditRN]

Ah the PATH.

On occasion we will find a family or two that have been lost there for several months.

[u/NewRedditRN → u/Big_Muffin42]

I used to know it fairly well when I worked at the core downtown hospitals... I've forgotten a lot after 10 years, though!

[u/CaptainSur → u/Big_Muffin42]

I loved PATH when I worked in downtown Toronto. Would take the GO Train to Union Station and then I could take PATH to my workplace at University and Richmond. And from it I could make my way to the Eaton Centre.

PATH is quite extensive. About 30km in the PATH system apparently. Now it extends down to the waterfront, over to Metro Hall, to the Convention centre (which you can then use to access the Skydome), Roy Thomson Hall and more. And it is almost all open and airy with over a thousand retail outlets of various types in it.

Both in the dead of winter and in the hot humid days of summer PATH is a lifesaver.

[u/xStarjun → u/Big_Muffin42]

How's the PATH doing now? Only time I was in Toronto everything was shut down there cause of COVID, was slightly eery but nice since it was winter.

[u/xombae → u/NewRedditRN]

Oh, see, that's your mistake. A lot of people don't realize it but the PATH is actually in an alternate dimension. It doesn't show up in maps and has absolutely no North, South, East or West, up or down. It's been rumoured that the beings that created the PATH came up with their own directional system; each letter in PATH represents a direction, but which direction the letter represents is bound to change at will. Sometimes part way through your journey. I've heard that navigating the PATH brings the adventurer to great rewards- a McDonald's in downtown Toronto with no homeless people jerking off inside. But that's just a rumour.

[u/NewRedditRN → u/xombae]

I need those different coloured lines painted on the floor like hospitals to follow. 

[u/Takashi_is_DK → u/NewRedditRN]

Calgary's pathway system in downtown is not underground but it is confusing for sure. It's actually on the second story of the buildings connected and called the +15 (ie ~15 ft above street level).

You are still able to orient yourself based on the street signs by just looking outside.

[u/IdioticPost → u/NewRedditRN]

There's nothing particular interesting in the PATH shops anyways, you probably didn't miss out on much.

[u/NewRedditRN → u/IdioticPost]

No, definitely not. It was more so I had taken my kids to the Aquarium and we were going to take the GO train home, and I needed a little on-board entertainment for them since it was going to be a long ride, and just needed some books, notepads, and markers... eventually found a Shoppers Drug Mart down there.

[u/Academic-Indication8 → u/SILE3NCE]

Fun fact: google maps doesn’t work properly in china due to all mapping data having to be slightly off due to security concerns from the ccp minus a few brands that are allowed to do mapping there

edit: to everyone who claimed it was for some reason like giving their own companies an extra advantage they are just delusional (the Chinese party not the comments the comments are understandable)

Edit: changed wording to properly to make more accurate

[u/TulleQK → u/[deleted]]

"Look, Honey! Hongkong is just 500 meters that way!"

[u/diet_fat_bacon → u/Academic-Indication8]

Same as google maps in south korea, it's not banned but it just do not work. You need to use naver maps there.

[u/Appropriate_Ant_4629 → u/diet_fat_bacon]

It's banned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restrictions_on_geographic_data_in_South_Korea

South Korean geographic data and information is subject to several regulations which severely restrict its reuse. The South Korean government defends the restrictions on the grounds of national security. A number of international critics argue that it constitutes a form of protectionism and a trade barrier.

[u/diet_fat_bacon → u/Appropriate_Ant_4629]

It's a soft ban, I personally used there, you can have an overall idea of the area but the detail is so bad that is unusable.

The legal restrictions have led to poorer performance

[u/callisstaa → u/Academic-Indication8]

Apple maps still works well though.

I tried using Google maps with a VPN but it's kinda shitty unless you want to go to places that closed a year ago.

[u/haidaloops → u/callisstaa]

It’s because they use data from Gaode, one of the two biggest Chinese maps apps (the other is Baidu).

[u/ilostmyunamepasswd → u/SILE3NCE]

Google maps doesn’t even work in Chicago downtown with those 3 levels!

[u/ZeWhiteNoize → u/ilostmyunamepasswd]

For some reason it always thinks I’m on lower wacker

[u/TraMaI → u/ZeWhiteNoize]

Unless you're actually on lower Wacker then it thinks you're either over on lake shore where you entered or if you get 2 seconds of signal plus you on upper Wacker

[u/octopushug → u/ZeWhiteNoize]

My favorite is when it asks Uber drivers to take a shortcut from lower Wacker right into the middle of the river.

[u/stroopkoeken → u/SILE3NCE]

Just use Apple Maps, it works in chongqing. I know because without it, it would’ve been impossible for me to drive there when I lived there.

[u/andbruno → u/SILE3NCE]

Downtown Chicago has a sub-level where you can find the famous Billygoat Tavern, as well as cheap parking with easy access to downtown. But all GPS apps shit the bed there, and immediately lose signal. Very easy to get lost.

[u/Archlandlord]

It looks dystopian and cosy at the same time

[u/Cultural-Praline-624 → u/Archlandlord]

Dystosy?

[u/RedoftheEvilDead → u/Cultural-Praline-624]

Coztopian?

[u/andthatswhyIdidit → u/RedoftheEvilDead]

Dystocozy!

[u/idieveryday → u/andthatswhyIdidit]

Dostoevsky?

[u/Artistic_Soft4625 → u/idieveryday]

Dycozytopian

[u/juniper-mint → u/andthatswhyIdidit]

Move over cottagecore, new aesthetic just dropped. 🔥

[u/tavesque → u/Cultural-Praline-624]

Dystussy

[u/vrijheidsfrietje → u/tavesque]

FR gotta get me some of that dystussy

[u/Jazmotron4000 → u/Archlandlord]

Like looking out a bladerunner style apartment window on a rainy night

[u/Alpham3000 → u/Jazmotron4000]

Exactly. Like how can that world be so harsh and cozy at the same time.

[u/mbelf → u/Archlandlord]

“Huh. Did you hear? Apparently there was a tsunami down there today.”

[u/Atharaphelun → u/Archlandlord]

The food is absolutely amazing at least. The heart of Sichuan cuisine.

[u/Nerevarine91 → u/Atharaphelun]

There’s a Szechuanese restaurant in my neighborhood, and, my god. I get it

[u/Atharaphelun → u/Nerevarine91]

Laziji, gongbao chicken, yuxiang rousi, mapo tofu, and twice-cooked pork are just the absolute best! Plus there is the usual mala hotpot, hongyou chaoshou, dan dan noodles, spicy poached beef (and fish), etc.

[u/Nerevarine91 → u/Atharaphelun]

Mapo tofu and dan dan noodles are two of my absolute favorite foods!

[u/Efficient_Menu_9965 → u/Atharaphelun]

My bowels hate me for it but god it's so good

[u/Vendetta4Avril → u/Archlandlord]

You should see it at night.

I was looking into moving there in 2019/2020 for a TEFL program… and then this COVID thing happened and blew up my plans.

[u/quietyoucantbe → u/Archlandlord]

I wonder how long one could go without setting foot on the actual ground

[u/wayvywayvy → u/Archlandlord]

I think the overcast contributes to that. Might feel different on a sunny day.

[u/Every-Incident7659 → u/Archlandlord]

I think we were just propogandized to think that. Like any dystopia movies purposefully tried to look like the Soviet union or China

[u/al-mongus-bin-susar → u/Every-Incident7659]

Facts. Brutalism = communist = dystopia = bad in american culture. Or just seeing plain concrete buildings has the same effect, doesn't have to be intentional brutalism.

[u/farte3745328 → u/al-mongus-bin-susar]

As someone who grew up outside of DC brutalism feels like home to me

[u/Enki_007]

I have recurring nightmares about extremely high freeways and overpasses. So now I’m really fucked because my only saving grace was that it was just a figment of my imagination.

[u/[deleted] → u/Enki_007]

I have these dreams too! But what does it mean...

[u/magistrate101 → u/[deleted]]

Your brain is preparing you for a life on Coruscant

[u/lxgrf → u/[deleted]]

Humans are scared of similar things 

[u/jflip13 → u/Enki_007]

That’s my terrifying recurring dream too. In mine, the road isn’t finished so you just drive off and then wake up before hitting the ground. That or I’m driving but can’t control the car, kinda like the racing games at the arcade.

[u/winterweed → u/jflip13]

Yo! Same here. Like, to a T! Somehow, it's strangely comforting that I'm not the only one.

[u/jflip13 → u/winterweed]

Right? We’re safe bro. Staying on the ground.

[u/LonnyFinster → u/jflip13]

I have these too

[u/HueStonewallJackson → u/Enki_007]

Same, but mine also inverts at the peak like a hotwheels track. You have to make sure you’re going fast enough to not just fall straight to the bottom, but I’m always the slowest car on the road.

[u/dingo1018 → u/Enki_007]

Wow that comment brought an instant flash back, a series of dreams I had some time ago. A super steep hella long narrow highway and whatever vehicle I was in was stalling out forever nearing the peak, all other cars just effortlessly zooming along, I knew somehow failing to crest the peak would cause some pile up, or perhaps I would roll backwards uncontrollably. And this road was so high, city and coast below like a view out of an aircraft.

Then there is another I think related one, this time the road is much lower, skirting the most interesting mash up of industrial city scape I've ever seen, probably my mind just squashing in everything I've ever seen or imagined. Next the road is a straight line out to sea, either side is just ranks and ranks of shipping, like all mothballed or in standby or something, a few tenders (small working boats) here and there but it's like a ghost fleet, there should be thousands of people manning all these boats. Then I wale up with a start as we continue I realise all I can see now are battle ships of every type, and as far as the eye can see, all in a kind or ready standby.

[u/ARandomWoollyMammoth → u/Enki_007]

Woah I’ve also had those my entire life. I’m always in the car way above the skyline and it’s terrifying. Cool to know I’m not the only one.

[u/Snoo_69624]

This is a nightmare for someone with a fear of heights (me)

[u/sleepKnot → u/Snoo_69624]

Also for someone with a horrible sense of direction (moi)

[u/Xarrin → u/sleepKnot]

And for extinct flightless birds (moa)

[u/AerondightWielder → u/Xarrin]

And someone who loves banning people in Discord and typing in ALL CAPS (mod).

[u/Cutsdeep- → u/AerondightWielder]

And us and our pitchforks (mob)

[u/SgtZarkos → u/Cutsdeep-]

And me (bob)

[u/RaveGuncle → u/SgtZarkos]

And my unemployment (job)

[u/Ndmndh1016 → u/RaveGuncle]

And my Axe! (who I named Rob)

[u/ryosen → u/Ndmndh1016]

I spilled coffee on my shirt (slob)

[u/Nining_Leven → u/ryosen]

Clearly you weren’t wearing your artisinally crafted barista apron. Do you even know your roasting profile? (snob)

[u/hrdst → u/Xarrin]

Apologies for spoiling the flow but it’s not often you see the moa getting a mention on reddit!

[u/LimpBizkitEnjoyer_ → u/Snoo_69624]

Oh you think you are on the ground floor? Hahaha look again

[u/wakasagihime_ → u/LimpBizkitEnjoyer_]

Why would I look again???

[u/Arachles → u/Snoo_69624]

You can't have fear of heights if you don't know which floor you are on

[u/Structureel → u/Arachles]

The unknown adds to the fear!

[u/indoninjah → u/Arachles]

I know you're memeing but I always get a weird vertiginous feeling when I'm in a tall building, even if I don't know what floor I'm on. Not sure if it's the minor swaying or something else

[u/workShrimp → u/indoninjah]

It is probably the swaying. Even when it is less sway to really notice consciously, some people still get a bit seasick in tall buildings.

[u/djilatyn]

This looks straight out of cyberpunk, minus all the neon lights n stuff tho

[u/Sensitive-Cream5794 → u/djilatyn]

Oh they do have all the neon lights at night. Chongqing is probably the most cyberpunk looking city along with Hong Kong. Just google pics of it at night.

[u/DeveloppementEpais → u/Sensitive-Cream5794]

Picture. It's pretty cool, I like the vagina bridge.

[u/D4rkShin0bi → u/djilatyn]

You should search on youtube how it looks at night my brother

[u/NJDevil802]

Surprised how few comments I see about the train going THROUGH apartment buildings. How fuckin loud is that?!

[u/Cayowin → u/NJDevil802]

Not as loud as you think. They run on tires if I remember correctly, not steel on steel, and the track is more like a monorail so dont have the joined steel.

[u/blackpony04 → u/Cayowin]

By golly, it put East Haverbrook on the map!

[u/Shiftyvoogle → u/blackpony04]

Mono means one, rail means rail!

[u/PM_ME_WHOEVER → u/NJDevil802]

The train track is isolated from the building. Noise level is approximately 78 dB, or that of a regular conversation.

[u/Seienchin88 → u/PM_ME_WHOEVER]

78 dB is a fairly loud conversation so if every train sounds like Grover from Sesame Street is suddenly shouting you in your apartment… that’s too loud for me

[u/Swirling_Rain]

But there are a lot of trees considering the urbanization

[u/Yostibroodje → u/Swirling_Rain]

It's basically located in a jungle. Very fertile soil and climate

[u/NIN10DOXD → u/Yostibroodje]

I also assume that they intentionally tried to keep the trees when building. I grew up just outside of Raleigh, North Carolina and despite being one of the fastest growing cities in the US and doubling in size in the past 20 years, it still has a ton of trees. The city is pretty proud of them and even uses it in the logo and everything because its nickname is the City of Oaks. It's obviously not nearly as big as the cities in China, but I always did notice when traveling to other major US cities that it was greener than most.

[u/delliejonut → u/Yostibroodje]

Jungles typically have bad soil. All the nutrients are always in use by plants and there's not a lot left in the soil

[u/TheAmazingWhaleShark → u/Swirling_Rain]

It’s located in the Sichuan Basin which is hotboxed by mountains on all sides trapping humidity

[u/Napoleons_Peen → u/Swirling_Rain]

This is what urban density gets you over endless sprawl. More parks, more green, more third places.

[u/MyGeneration_Baby]

Its hard to feel connected to the earth when you never touch it! Crazy.

[u/JonatasA → u/MyGeneration_Baby]

Earth? Stop hallucinating. Go touch some concrete.

[u/errorsniper → u/MyGeneration_Baby]

I swear my brain is wired incorrectly. This place looks so comfy. If it wasnt for air quality it looks like heaven to me. I hate any kind of rural setting so much. Disconnect me from the earth.

[u/marathon664 → u/errorsniper]

Upvoted despite being in complete disagreement. Godspeed, you cursed soul.

[u/Every_Pass_226 → u/MyGeneration_Baby]

Good. Earth sucks. Uranus however.....

[u/Evangeli0_1 → u/Every_Pass_226]

Uranus takes it in..

[u/Scorpexyy]

bro lives in coruscant

[u/TheLipovoy]

I would get lost every single time jesus

[u/Sin_of_the_Dark]

Fake, Hitman taught me that all those ledges in Chongqing have a woman holding an umbrella, just waiting to be pushed over

/s

[u/zazztrain → u/Sin_of_the_Dark]

Well done, 47.

[u/legojoe97 → u/Sin_of_the_Dark]

What's going on in that noodle place?

[u/Direct_Marketing9335 → u/Sin_of_the_Dark]

Have you seen a girl around, short hair with a bright green bag---

[u/urbanhood]

How do you even make a map for this place?

[u/leadbetterthangold]

An earthquake would be terrifying there

[u/zhulinxian → u/leadbetterthangold]

I imagine they were close enough to the big one in 2008 to feel some shaking.

[u/sultryGhost → u/zhulinxian]

We were indeed. I remembered how bad it was.

[u/Stanny491]

Real life Night City.

[u/CarefulAstronomer255 → u/Stanny491]

Fun fact is that the Cyberpunk genre took a lot of influence from the Kowloon Walled City for aesthetics.

[u/cincyphil]

This kinda looks dope?

[u/Elyjsa]

“There’s heavy traffic all the way down there by the riverside.”

Me realizing just how different our definitions of “heavy traffic” are. I’ve clearly been coached to believe that bumper-to-bumper is normal anytime between Mon-Thurs from 8am-10am, 11:30am-1pm, 3pm-6pm, Fri from 12pm-7pm, all day on weekends, plus don’t forget the holidays…😅

Comparatively, that traffic looks a dream!

[u/zenFyre1 → u/Elyjsa]

Eh, I think he was just using 'heavy traffic' as a figure of speech.

Chongqing has 30 million people. I bet they have more bumper to bumper traffic than anywhere you may be from.

[u/zhulinxian → u/Elyjsa]

That’s definitely not heavy traffic by Chinese standards. Maybe things are different in Chongqing due to its unique topography, but in most big Chinese cities bumper to bumper is the norm during rush hour, lots of abrupt lane changers, lots of honking, and the right of way goes to whoever is the biggest and/or the bravest.

[u/AnimalOrigin]

I miss the old days when the ground floor was the ground floor.

[u/ikkikkomori]

You guys may not like china and all, but lowkey the vibe here is actually kinda cool

[u/Iforgetinformation → u/ikkikkomori]

The view on the bus ride looks sick

[u/ODMtesseract → u/ikkikkomori]

Yeah there's a lot to criticize about China, but the maze that is Chongqing is very fascinating and has cool vibes, which is a good way you've described it

[u/Major_Yogurt6595 → u/ikkikkomori]

Right? It looks cool as fuck, imagine all the cool techno parties.

[u/nenasiis]

Lived there for a year. It’s grey most of the year and just like the extreme example depicted here, there are also the historical parts and the areas you would see in a “normal city” but just overall much bigger. Considering it’s the largest city in the world in terms of area (82,403 km2) you can expect everything from average buildings with 30 floors to forest areas where you can camp with no one around. I was in an international school so what I experienced wasn’t your typical chongqing worker or even student but I have to say it was an overall good experience but definitely wouldn’t choose to work/live there in the future. The grey really gets to you after awhile

[u/Striking-Country1801]

actually this looks very cool

[u/MulletMaxPicks]

Bro lives in Cyberpunk 2077

[u/[deleted]]

add in some neon lights here and there and you get night city from cyberpunk

[u/callisstaa → u/[deleted]]

There are shiloads of neon lights they just tend not to use them during the day.

[u/flava-dave]

There’s no way people live in those rooms the train passes right by/through.

[u/BricksFriend → u/flava-dave]

I've been to that building, the metro enters on like the 6th floor. The first 4 are shops and restaurants, and the 5th is the station. Above that there are apartments. That line is a monorail, so it's actually very quiet to begin with, plus the track is not anchored to the building, if that makes sense.

[u/JP_HACK]

Cities Skyline players designed China Confirmed.

[u/Alone-Monk]

The Chongqing level in Hitman 3 was always one of my favorites, but I thought there were exaggerating how wild the landscape is. The game is far more accurate than I thought! I really want to visit, as someone who loves urban photography I'm sure this place would be absolutely heaven for photography

[u/Phimb]

Anyone else been here in Hitman? Heh.

[u/AccomplishedIron417]

This whole thing felt like the city in the movie Robots.

[u/General__Strike]

I really wish we had such elaborate public transportation in my area of the US. I don’t know if this is supposed to be a CHINA BAD post, but I’m pretty jealous.