New York girl's life experience : Shanghai VS. New York City

[beijingwalker]

the paradigm has shifted your prestigious Shanghai tower is largely unoccupied preCOVID, good luck recouping your investments post COVID. Like I said, I see the demise of large cities as a positive. No more nightmare commutes, no more living in polluted congested cities. Many large firms are in the process of giving up their offices in high rise buildings - this is happening now and I like it.

So you are ok with your rats infested New York subways?

 

[Whizzack]

I heard that ground water in Beijing is undrinkable so people need to buy water for drinking, is it true ?

Why would anyone wants to drink groundwater directly anyway..? I don't think there exist any city or town on earth where the groundwater is safe enough to drink directly without some sort of treatment... And anyway, groundwater extraction from under any city is bad news... as the land will begin to subside and the city will then start to sink just like what's happening in Jakarta right now...

 

[dbc]

So you are ok with your rats infested New York subways?

Sure, if its ordained by natural evolution so shall it be. We don't throw money at infrastructure to fulfil a social contract.

 

[beijingwalker]

Sure, if its ordained by natural evolution so shall it be. We don't throw money at infrastructure to fulfil a social contract.

Lol, as long as you don't care, everything is fine, enjoy your rats company in New York.

 

[Indos]

Why would anyone wants to drink groundwater directly anyway..? I don't think there's any city or town on earth where the groundwater is safe enough to drink directly without some sort treatment... And anyway, groundwater extraction from under any city is bad news... as the land will begin to subside and the city will then start to sink just like what's happening in Jakarta right now...

LOL of course we need to boil it first. Jakarta need to have better regulation and force any builder to have green open space to any building they are building so that water from rain will get absorbed and not goes directly to river that also can cause flood. Many houses now dont have garden. I am agree on you that we should get water from pipe (PAM), but businesses should do it first. I heard they also still use underground water. I live in Jakarta.

 

[mmr]

New york is New York. It should not be compared with other cities. Some thing about New york every time i go there i want to stay longer then last time lol. and i am from Vancouver one of the most livable place on earth. it doest matter how pretty vancouver is...cant be compared to NYC.

Cant wait to visit once covid is over.

 

[KAL-EL]

New york is New York. It should not be compared with other cities. Some thing about New york every time i go there i want to stay longer then last time lol. and i am from Vancouver one of the most livable place on earth. it doest matter how pretty vancouver is...cant be compared to NYC.

Cant wait to visit once covid is over.

My brother moved to NYC A few years back, and I love going to visit the city each and every time.

 

[mmr]

My brother moved to NYC A few years back, and I love going to visit the city each and every time.

its so cool...OMG I am obseesed with NYC lol. You have no idea ha ha.

and the pizza soooo good.

 

[beijingwalker]

I lived in New York for 2 years, never loved it, people do have different tastes for cities.

 

[Pan-Islamic-Pakistan]

I drink tap water in China but bottled water in US, cause in New York, tap water has so much particles floating in water and makes it almost not transparent, it freaked me out.

Yes I remember that. You have to wait for sediment to settle. It is from those old pipes.

Don't get me started on the black tar-like water with garbage floating in it which surrounds NYC. I even saw people swimming in it daily.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

Why would anyone wants to drink groundwater directly anyway..? I don't think there exist any city or town on earth where the groundwater is safe enough to drink directly without some sort of treatment... And anyway, groundwater extraction from under any city is bad news... as the land will begin to subside and the city will then start to sink just like what's happening in Jakarta right now...

Actually untreated well water is used in many suburban parts of the US...but the groundwater in most urban areas is undrinkable due to past industrialization irreparably contaminating it ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatile_organic_compound#Specific_component ) .

Many towns won't even allow gasoline stations. Another reason why electric cars have a future.

 

[beijingwalker]

I don't know about Shanghai, Beijing's water comes from South China, being transported to Beijing through the biggest engineering project in the human history, the south-north water diversion project.

 

[sms]

New York girl's life experience : Shanghai VS. New York City

After living in Shanghai and NYC. I'd pick Shanghai.
Both cities have their own positives and negatives. Shanghai wins hands down... it has better infra structure, safer than NYC and you can get every thing what's available in NYC.

Where Shanghai pales in comparison... it' air pollution. I never had any sinus related issues to NYC but Shanghai it was never ending issue.

Last, it's much easier to get GF in Shanghai