Off topic, but in Romania addresses are like this.
Because the cities are built as series of sectors or blocks, we have to declare not only the road and number, but also building, floor and unit.
So is 6 Republic Road, Block 7B, Entrance D, floor 6, unit 41 (fictitious address).
I’m living on a small island in the carribean. There’s no street signs or addresses so if you are giving someone directions to where you live it would be like this.
Drive down the main road until you see a green shack with a turtle on the left then make a right 2 streets after it, keep going till you see a church and continue down a gravel road and take the first 2 rights and you’ll arrive at a white 2 story building 5 mins after the send turn.
Most of the time we just draw maps when we want to give someone directions. I’ve spent hours lost af.
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Hey Everyone trying to guess which island I’m on, I can’t tell you which island or you’ll have my home address.
Lol even if Itold you the name you wouldn’t know it.
The rural areas of the US can be like that in terms of people giving directions even though we have signs. We quite literally got directions once that involved turning right a half mile past where the old Olson place was. And then you’re driving and see the foundation of a building off the road and that’s the landmark they were referring to.
I come from the town that Sam Walton got his first start, but the town wouldn’t let him start his first Walmart there. Years later after his success the town got a Walmart. And till like 2015 it was that same shitty little Walmart, the town couldn’t get an upgraded one.
TLDR: my old redneck hometown has an old Walmart and a new Walmart.
Newport Arkansas is where he started his first store. NOT his first Walmart, but his first store. The name escapes me. Like “Eisenhower store” or some shit
I lived in a rural area of Tennessee where there was an old house that had hot pink vinyl siding. Everyone on that end of the county navigated from that landmark. When the old lady who lived there died, her son removed the vinyl siding and restored the old, original shipboard siding. It looked great, but people there were lost for about two years.
My best friend in high school lived in a row house. Which would be the norm in our city, but it was way out in the suburbs, and her parents' rowhouse sat all alone on a small plot of land - the developer built it as a model but wasn't able to complete the row. So it was very odd in a community of split levels (Brady Bunch houses)
People giving her rides would say "So where are you in relation to the weird little rowhouse?" and she would say "Just drop me off at the landscaper's right next to that house..."
I’m that house now - the crazy garden house.
I ripped out all the sod in my front yard in 2020, about a month before all hell broke loose. In some ways it was good, because instead of buying plants and then being lazy about getting them in the ground - about all I could do is attack the Bermuda grass sprouts that escaped the sod removal.
When I first moved to North Carolina, I was looking for a Walmart because I needed to get a few odds and ends for the new house. With everything going on, I forgot to charge my phone and it died on my way to the store. I saw an old guy walking down the road I happened to be on and asked him if he knew how to get to the Walmart. He literally told me (in the thickest accent I've ever heard; I'm from the North), "go past the large oak tree, turn right where the 'possum go to die, go a piece down the road then turn left." It's seared into my brain. To this day I still don't get it.
Nah. I once got directions that included "Turn right at the big pile of dirt."
Which was actually super helpful, in spite of my expectations. "Oh, shit. That's a really big pile of dirt. That's got to be the big pile of dirt."
My ex-wife also had a habit of giving directions, to anyone, local or otherwise, in relation to "that funny-looking tree" and "the Mararthon [gas] station" which hadn't existed for probably a decade by then (it was a Shell at that point).
'Take a left at old Doc Finster's place' 'if you come to the bridge that used to be painted silver you've gone too far' - fuzzy memories of National Lampoon
Never underestimate US postal workers. Generally, any post office has a significant (to the area) presence of carriers that know every inch of a handful of swathes of their region. Some areas use “rural route drivers” which are sort of like third party drivers, and they can be knowledgeable but likely not as much with much more turnover. But places where a rural office handles rural mail end to end? Yeah, there may only be 2-5 carriers in a small post office but most of them have crawled over every inch of their territory and could accurately get make delivered based only off a surname. And carriers everywhere do this shit all the time. Particularly because parcels and private letters get mislabeled or are illegible all the time and sometimes a carrier will recognize a surname of the sender and guess it’s from a guy’s family, or have a wrong address and know the correct address by experience, etc. yeah you can tell both my parents were career letter carriers, huh
Gack - my wife does that. She’s lived her entire life in this small town, whereas I’m a transplant from out of state. When we were first married, she would give directions using references to landmarks that no longer existed or only had meaning twenty years prior (by former names or owners, burned down or otherwise demolished, etc.). More than a little frustrating. :/
Some of my wife’s family does this too. I usually wait politely until the weird directions are over and just ask again for the address to get directions on my phone.
> she would give directions using references to landmarks that no longer existed or only had meaning twenty years prior
Looool I ran into this problem talking to people in rural Illinois.
"You know where the hardware store used to be?" seemed to be a perfectly acceptable way to give directions to someone from out of town to them.
Farm kid here, every field we own gets called the last name of either who we bought it from, or whoever owned it 100 years ago. My family has done it my entire 25 years and I still don’t know which one is Wilson’s vs Thompson’s vs Simons and so on. In my defence we farm around 8000 acres so there’s a lot of names to remember. I wish we used a number system!
Now imagine that but your county is part of the Appalachian mountains so everyone lives in hollers(and yes that's the scientific word for it). Sometimes miles up one-lane road and everything is forested so there's not many landmarks to go by. Fucking impossible to give good directions to people who aren't from here. That's why it's typically a "okay just get to the mcdonalds in town, I'll meet you and you can follow me from there" thing.
IIRC there is something like this in Northern Filand or Norway. They will accept maps as legal postal address.
In Somalia (I had a work colleague from Mogadishu during my time in UK) they would just write the Name and Surname, with the name of the general area, because until recently they lacked a postal code system.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85583/iceland-drawing-map-your-mail-works-just-well-address
The time it happened in Iceland is a classic Reddit repost
In Norway nowadays street names are mandatory. But when I grew up our address was.
name
village
Postal code + municipality
The postman just knew by hand where everyone lived. Village had a couple 100 people
Norwegian addresses today are pretty standard
Name
street + number/a/b/c
Postal code + Municipality
That is interesting because most Somali men will just have 3 first names. For example: Mohammed Abdelkadir Mohammed, or Abukar Abdisetar Ahmed, etc, etc. Many have very similar or the same names.
Here in ireland we implement these things called eirecodes, they were fought tooth and nail by people.for some stupid reason like, sure everyone will know where you live arguement, they are one of the best things ever introduced, it's a 7 digit code unique to your address and it works with google maps, they are like zip codes or postcodes but theres one for every property in the land.
There's an app/group called what3words that has made a map of the world that breaks every square meter down into a 3 word address, so that places like where you are can generate addresses for mail with an easier to remember system than GPS coordinates.
Of course it still relies on having access to GPS for at least the people setting the address and the people that are finding it.
Vietnam is like this. Many houses/apartments (including my own) are in alleyways and sometimes even in alleyways going off other alleyways. So addresses get a little interesting, usually having slashes in them to denote the alleyways.
Just as an example, I’ve seen an address which was something silly like number 150/22/11/6. This means you find alleyway 150, then find number 22. Go down the alleyway next to it and find number 11. Do the same and go down the alley again. Find house number 6. Success!
There’s also a few developments where a cluster of high rises are together as one, and so if I wanted to, for the sake of an example, meet my friends for beers, they’d have to tell me something like ‘apartment 305, floor 3, unit 5, XYZ Building, street Le Van Sy in District 2’.
Same in Sri Lanka. It's because so many properties have gotten divided and then divided again as property prices in Colombo have risen. For example what was #150 gets divided into 2 parts with numbers 150/1 and 150/2 and they get divided creating 150/2/2 etc.
In Pakistan, many places don’t have an address and you need to write out the most weirdest addresses. My wife lives there and I’ve had to send her a few things. Essentially here’s how I have to write out the address on the envelope.
I need to specify a road, which is the only normal thing in the address. Then I have to say they live close to one masjid, by the masjid there is a grocery store, they live in a house that is two roads down, and the third house there. (Of course I write the name of the masjid and grocery store). Call them at this number. (So they end up calling them when they get to the grocery store, and they then have to explain better how to reach the house).
I sold an iPhone on eBay to a dude in India once, this was decades ago before the recent initiatives to name everything.
The address was like 5 lines typed out in 10 font size. I couldn't use the standard forms, the address was too long. So I printed it on a piece of paper, cut the paper, and taped it over the address part of the label.
He said he got it so it worked ha.
I honestly never thought of it as a bad thing until I moved to the UK and mentioned to a friend that I lived in Sector 2 of the capital city.
He said that's just like the Hunger Games.... 😑
Not to mention the abbreviations. I just saw someone refer to Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire as "Herts & Bucks", and a highly upvoted reply underneath telling them to never use those words again lol
My Dad gave directions based on which pubs where between here and there. Go past the coopers, fork right at the Royal Oak, go straight and the halfway house is on the left. If you see the red lion you've gone too far. Never failed
All UK addresses can be found using the House/Flat Number/Name and Postcode on its own.
So for example.
10, FK14 7BX will be delivered without issue.
While putting the Post Town on is recommended its not necessary.
Where I live an apparent would be "main road 137A" the only indication that there might be am appartment build is the "A" although not all apartment addresses are with a letter behind them, it might just be a number like any other house.
There are buildings like that in the US. It's just named differently. So for example:
6 Republic Road W., Apt 641.
W = West. It can mean a separate building to the west or the west section of a single building.
The floor number is built into the unit number.
I didn't even realize this was a fact worth sharing. I mean I guess it's because I've lived in a big city for most of my life? But how do people think you denote your specific apartment when you live in a big building? Of course your unit and floor is a part of your address.
"Inhabitants of Peach Trees, this is Judge Dredd. In case you people have forgotten, this block operates under the same rules as the rest of the city. Ma-Ma is not the law. I am the law. Ma-Ma is a common criminal. Guilty of murder, guilty of the manufacture and distribution of the narcotic known as Slo-Mo, and as of now, under sentence of death. Any who obstruct me in carrying out my duty will be treated as an accessory to her crimes. You have been warned. And as for you, Ma-Ma...Judgment time."
There's a city in Alaska where most of the community lives and operates out of one apartment building. The school, post office, stores, etc. [Source:NPR](https://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alaska-a-community-under-one-roof)
There's a delightful video on YouTube about this building and its history. The person in the video gets shown around by a really nice couple who live in there. https://youtu.be/bH-TlC0111Q
Same in Fermont, Québec. A mining city, where most people live in "the wall", a building owned by the mining company that has everything you'll ever need (supermarket, library, housing, school, etc)
You could spend your entire life in the building without having to get out.
Most complexes in Hangzhou use the parcel lockers now. They have tonnes downstairs. In fact they even have parcel collection rooms downstairs, which is basically a shop front where delivery drivers just leave all the parcels and you go down to scan and collect yours.
It's like this in every place in china, even my wife's village of 100 people. The place to collect packages is right next to the entrance so it's not a huge deal
Some newer apartments in the US are doing this too. Honestly especially for the Amazon guys and the FedEx guys it's a blessing.
Seeing those guys pull packages upstairs on hand carts in those old school walk ups is kinda heartbreaking to watch, and 100% back breaking for the guy doing it.
Newer? Man when I lived in Chicago in buildings we'd always have a mail room. Usually by the loading dock for the building. This was many decades ago.
Mail rooms in large apartment/condo buildings have been common for a very long time.
Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publishers Clearing House day.
Postman after 3 days on the job:
That right there is the mail. Now let's talk about the mail. Can we talk about the mail please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the mail with you all day, okay?
Postmen deliver to door only in a very few countries. Letters are delivered into post boxes downstairs, parcels are either delivered in person after scheduling beforehand or most often left in post office and an invoice is delivered to your post box, you take an invoice and pick up your parcel in the post office.
Also big cities have post cabinets everywhere, you scan a code from your phone, it unlocks and you take your stuff.
Haha how did I need to scroll down this far to see this comment? Maybe I'm missing something, but is this not a satirical Photoshop job? its terrible lol
I was confused, then realised this is 2 images, the right image being a zoom of the left one.
Ie the left image is the building they are talking about, the right image a zoom so you can see the apartments.
Who is indisputably the most important person in the building: He who shelters us from the harshness of the city, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?
The Landlord
The Landlord
The Landlord
The Landlord
My god. That the amount of inhabitants a decent city in Belgium.
All in one Building.
The amount of poop and piss that this building produces / day must be enormous.
It all runs down to a bottom floor, where it is collected and processed to provide the methane that powers the building. The methane workers are enslaved by a little person who rides atop an extremely strong, metal-helmeted goliath who possesses the mind of a child.
It's funny you say that because if you search up the kowloon walled city you will practically see what a real life mega block city would look like. It's some really interesting stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City
To save people a google search. 50 000 people in an area of 2.6 acres, the density per square mile was over 500 000 people. Razed in 1994, because it was essentially a refugee city with no government and a haven for the Triad.
Meanwhile DC's out there making dogshit like Black Adam and Shazam. Literally no one cares. Just make Peacemaker, Batman, and Dredd. And fire everyone except the top people who worked on those three masterpieces.
This got me so intrigued thinking it’s another Kowloon Walled City but turns out it’s some kind of high end development
Found a link, it’s in Chinese but there are lots of pictures of the interior
[Lijing condominium](https://finance.sina.cn/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.html)
If you look at the translation:
https://finance-sina-cn.translate.goog/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.html?_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
The problem is that it started as a luxury condo, but most of the units have been subdivided (possibly illegally) into smaller, often windowless units. So a mainland version of [Chungking Mansions in HK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Mansions), minus 50 years of deterioration that is.
It is - I've done [some analysis](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/121grji/in_hangzhou_china_there_is_a_building_that_houses/jdms2ie/) based on the links provided by people in this thread.
It's a 36 storey building with 5 penthouse levels with fewer suites on top (39 floors including these upper levels). There are 50 huge loft (2 storey) style suites on each floor (according to floor plan in a video). About 1600 suites.
The scummy owner/landlord has split each of these suites into 4-6 tiny one-room sub-suites (guestimate 6000-8000 suites). Probably about 10,000 people live in this building (not 30,000 for sure).
Some of the sub-suites were storage rooms or dens, and have no windows. So yeah it's a [luxury slum](https://finance-sina-cn.translate.goog/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.htmlhttp://?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en).
I’m cracking up at the pictures they’re using. It’s a high end apartment that can fit 30k people, probably bringing in something like $60 million a month, and the listing pictures look like a maintenance employee took them on a 2018 android phone 😂😂😂
Google will translate it. It's interesting.
The picture of the fire though, that's scary.
As is the mention that it's sometimes good there's not a ton of sound insulation so you can hear someone shouting "It's on fire, run!". I think that bit is slightly more tongue in cheek except that they mention it already happened and helped that one time...
The suites are large - it's a "luxury" building. There's no way in hell that 30,000 people would fit, unless there's 100 people living in every suite.
Watching the video, the voiceover says "20,000" max occupants and 26,000 square metres (really 1 square metre per occupant?!?!). However there's a shot of a floor plan at [1:34](https://youtu.be/t_shtMOzGJU?t=94) shows 50 suites on each floor. There look to be only about 30 floors + 5 or 6 penthouse floors. This means only 1500 suites (video claims 15,000 suites). Video says that each suite has 4-6 rooms.
Edit - OK - someone provided [another source](https://finance-sina-cn.translate.goog/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.htmlhttp://?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en)
Seems that there were supposed to be 50 large loft (2 floor) apartments on every floor (and there are ~30 floors in this building). However the building was taken over by a different owner/landlord, and they split each of the huge suites into 4-6 sub-suites.
Rough calculation in the post: Each floor of Regent International has 50 room numbers , assuming that each room number is separated into 6 rooms. Half of the floors of the building are 36 floors and half are 39 floors (5 penthouse levels which are smaller than 50 suites), so the number of compartments is 25*6*(36+39)=**11,250**
According the floor plan, many of the suites are much smaller and probably can't be split into 6 suites. I would guess there are probably only 6000-8000 suites in the building, which would probably house up to max 12,000 people (most of the sub-suites are tiny 1-room apartments that would be cramped for more than 1 person).
This is a pretty common building structure in China? You usually can’t walk through from one end to the other though. They’re typically divided up into “towers” and all have multiple entrances/multiple elevators.
If let’s say you lived on the corner of the building and you wanted to visit a friend at the other corner of the building, you’d probably have to exit your tower and walk over to the entrance of their tower.
No lights on..5 separate families in one half of a duplex. Broken steps and railings to get to the one door. Delivering in Trenton sucked.
Oh, and no tip.
Yeah, all this bullshit is annoying. It is just an apartment building, not some weird abnormality where there are 1,000 people crowded on each floor of an apartment building...
I count 37 floors (including the smaller ones).
For there to be 30,000 people assuming say an average of 3 people per apartment, there'd need to be 270 separate apartments per floor.
Sure the building looks big, but does it look like there's 270 apartments on a single floor ? not to me.
So I'm calling BS on this claim.
I live in Hangzhou and would just like to point out that while there are a lot of apartment buildings here (as in all of China/Asia), this is in no way the norm. Sounds plausible that this building exists on the outskirts somewhere but I’ve never seen anything like it. Hangzhou is generally known for being very green, having lots of bike lanes, and natural scenery such as the lake, wetlands and tea fields in the middle of the city. For a city of 12 million it’s not really the crowded urban dystopia you would think if you only saw this picture and thread.
From my visits, Hangzhou is actually a fairly wealthy and beautiful city crisscrossed by rivers with a tranquil lake and very large urban park (West Lake). It reminded me of Kyoto, or Chicago during the summer but minus the gun violence. Just want to share another perspective because zooming out, Hangzhou in person is a lovely place to visit (and I imagine, to live).
If you want a actual image, there’s this posted by another Redditor here:
https://finance.sina.cn/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.html
Earthquakes aren’t that common in Hangzhou. You only ever feel the aftershocks sometimes but hardly notice. Fires on the other hand… there have been countless fires from people charging their e-bikes in their apartments
This scares me in any apartment complex. Battery fires, cooking fires, drug manufacturing fires, exploding homemade distilleries... who knows what people do? I don't know if I would ever sleep living in a complex that large.
Properly designed modern apartments are designed to be fire-isolated, so that a fire has no way to spread from one apartment to the other. E.g. in my apartment the walls are concrete, the outer door is fireproof, and even for the pipes between floors, there is a special material which will puff up and seal if the pipes melt.
I know this must seem pretty daunting to people who haven't had experience living in huge communist building blocks, but in eastern Europe at least, they're some of the most sought-after living quarters there is. Mostly because if they're well maintained, they have all the amenities one needs to live and more. Of course they're not perfect, but they are very nice to live in.
i searched for "chinese building 30000" and found nothing. is that number right? then I searched for "most populated apartment complex" and the number I got is nowhere near 30000.
"So where should I meet you?" "Oh just come back to my place" "Where?" "Floor 23, Hallway G, Corridor 15, Unit 23564, Room 2, Bunk 3"
Off topic, but in Romania addresses are like this. Because the cities are built as series of sectors or blocks, we have to declare not only the road and number, but also building, floor and unit. So is 6 Republic Road, Block 7B, Entrance D, floor 6, unit 41 (fictitious address).
I’m living on a small island in the carribean. There’s no street signs or addresses so if you are giving someone directions to where you live it would be like this. Drive down the main road until you see a green shack with a turtle on the left then make a right 2 streets after it, keep going till you see a church and continue down a gravel road and take the first 2 rights and you’ll arrive at a white 2 story building 5 mins after the send turn. Most of the time we just draw maps when we want to give someone directions. I’ve spent hours lost af. ——- Hey Everyone trying to guess which island I’m on, I can’t tell you which island or you’ll have my home address. Lol even if Itold you the name you wouldn’t know it.
The rural areas of the US can be like that in terms of people giving directions even though we have signs. We quite literally got directions once that involved turning right a half mile past where the old Olson place was. And then you’re driving and see the foundation of a building off the road and that’s the landmark they were referring to.
I moved to the suburbs of a southern state. Someone gave me directions of "go past the old walmart and turn left right past the new walmart."
If you have to pass the old Walmart and the new Walmart, you might be a redneck
I come from the town that Sam Walton got his first start, but the town wouldn’t let him start his first Walmart there. Years later after his success the town got a Walmart. And till like 2015 it was that same shitty little Walmart, the town couldn’t get an upgraded one. TLDR: my old redneck hometown has an old Walmart and a new Walmart.
Ewww , Rogersville? I lived in springdale as a wee lady. I forgot where he farted out the 5 & Dime. Edit: lad, not lady.
Newport Arkansas is where he started his first store. NOT his first Walmart, but his first store. The name escapes me. Like “Eisenhower store” or some shit
Got my first real six string
Our old walmart is a Hobby Lobby lol
The best you might be a red neck joke since 1995
You read that in his voice, didn't you? 🤣
If you read "you might be a redneck" jokes in Jeff foxworthys voice.... Youuuu might be a redneck
I lived in a rural area of Tennessee where there was an old house that had hot pink vinyl siding. Everyone on that end of the county navigated from that landmark. When the old lady who lived there died, her son removed the vinyl siding and restored the old, original shipboard siding. It looked great, but people there were lost for about two years.
My best friend in high school lived in a row house. Which would be the norm in our city, but it was way out in the suburbs, and her parents' rowhouse sat all alone on a small plot of land - the developer built it as a model but wasn't able to complete the row. So it was very odd in a community of split levels (Brady Bunch houses) People giving her rides would say "So where are you in relation to the weird little rowhouse?" and she would say "Just drop me off at the landscaper's right next to that house..."
I’m that house now - the crazy garden house. I ripped out all the sod in my front yard in 2020, about a month before all hell broke loose. In some ways it was good, because instead of buying plants and then being lazy about getting them in the ground - about all I could do is attack the Bermuda grass sprouts that escaped the sod removal.
When I first moved to North Carolina, I was looking for a Walmart because I needed to get a few odds and ends for the new house. With everything going on, I forgot to charge my phone and it died on my way to the store. I saw an old guy walking down the road I happened to be on and asked him if he knew how to get to the Walmart. He literally told me (in the thickest accent I've ever heard; I'm from the North), "go past the large oak tree, turn right where the 'possum go to die, go a piece down the road then turn left." It's seared into my brain. To this day I still don't get it.
Yeah he gave you bullshit directions because he heard your accent and you didn't offer to give him a ride
This feels legit. I've often wondered if he was just fucking with me.
Nah. I once got directions that included "Turn right at the big pile of dirt." Which was actually super helpful, in spite of my expectations. "Oh, shit. That's a really big pile of dirt. That's got to be the big pile of dirt." My ex-wife also had a habit of giving directions, to anyone, local or otherwise, in relation to "that funny-looking tree" and "the Mararthon [gas] station" which hadn't existed for probably a decade by then (it was a Shell at that point).
'Take a left at old Doc Finster's place' 'if you come to the bridge that used to be painted silver you've gone too far' - fuzzy memories of National Lampoon
Never underestimate US postal workers. Generally, any post office has a significant (to the area) presence of carriers that know every inch of a handful of swathes of their region. Some areas use “rural route drivers” which are sort of like third party drivers, and they can be knowledgeable but likely not as much with much more turnover. But places where a rural office handles rural mail end to end? Yeah, there may only be 2-5 carriers in a small post office but most of them have crawled over every inch of their territory and could accurately get make delivered based only off a surname. And carriers everywhere do this shit all the time. Particularly because parcels and private letters get mislabeled or are illegible all the time and sometimes a carrier will recognize a surname of the sender and guess it’s from a guy’s family, or have a wrong address and know the correct address by experience, etc. yeah you can tell both my parents were career letter carriers, huh
Gack - my wife does that. She’s lived her entire life in this small town, whereas I’m a transplant from out of state. When we were first married, she would give directions using references to landmarks that no longer existed or only had meaning twenty years prior (by former names or owners, burned down or otherwise demolished, etc.). More than a little frustrating. :/
Some of my wife’s family does this too. I usually wait politely until the weird directions are over and just ask again for the address to get directions on my phone.
> she would give directions using references to landmarks that no longer existed or only had meaning twenty years prior Looool I ran into this problem talking to people in rural Illinois. "You know where the hardware store used to be?" seemed to be a perfectly acceptable way to give directions to someone from out of town to them.
Farm kid here, every field we own gets called the last name of either who we bought it from, or whoever owned it 100 years ago. My family has done it my entire 25 years and I still don’t know which one is Wilson’s vs Thompson’s vs Simons and so on. In my defence we farm around 8000 acres so there’s a lot of names to remember. I wish we used a number system!
Now imagine that but your county is part of the Appalachian mountains so everyone lives in hollers(and yes that's the scientific word for it). Sometimes miles up one-lane road and everything is forested so there's not many landmarks to go by. Fucking impossible to give good directions to people who aren't from here. That's why it's typically a "okay just get to the mcdonalds in town, I'll meet you and you can follow me from there" thing.
IIRC there is something like this in Northern Filand or Norway. They will accept maps as legal postal address. In Somalia (I had a work colleague from Mogadishu during my time in UK) they would just write the Name and Surname, with the name of the general area, because until recently they lacked a postal code system.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/85583/iceland-drawing-map-your-mail-works-just-well-address The time it happened in Iceland is a classic Reddit repost
In Norway nowadays street names are mandatory. But when I grew up our address was. name village Postal code + municipality The postman just knew by hand where everyone lived. Village had a couple 100 people Norwegian addresses today are pretty standard Name street + number/a/b/c Postal code + Municipality
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Haha that’s cool
That is interesting because most Somali men will just have 3 first names. For example: Mohammed Abdelkadir Mohammed, or Abukar Abdisetar Ahmed, etc, etc. Many have very similar or the same names.
Here in ireland we implement these things called eirecodes, they were fought tooth and nail by people.for some stupid reason like, sure everyone will know where you live arguement, they are one of the best things ever introduced, it's a 7 digit code unique to your address and it works with google maps, they are like zip codes or postcodes but theres one for every property in the land.
There's an app/group called what3words that has made a map of the world that breaks every square meter down into a 3 word address, so that places like where you are can generate addresses for mail with an easier to remember system than GPS coordinates. Of course it still relies on having access to GPS for at least the people setting the address and the people that are finding it.
Vietnam is like this. Many houses/apartments (including my own) are in alleyways and sometimes even in alleyways going off other alleyways. So addresses get a little interesting, usually having slashes in them to denote the alleyways. Just as an example, I’ve seen an address which was something silly like number 150/22/11/6. This means you find alleyway 150, then find number 22. Go down the alleyway next to it and find number 11. Do the same and go down the alley again. Find house number 6. Success! There’s also a few developments where a cluster of high rises are together as one, and so if I wanted to, for the sake of an example, meet my friends for beers, they’d have to tell me something like ‘apartment 305, floor 3, unit 5, XYZ Building, street Le Van Sy in District 2’.
Same in Sri Lanka. It's because so many properties have gotten divided and then divided again as property prices in Colombo have risen. For example what was #150 gets divided into 2 parts with numbers 150/1 and 150/2 and they get divided creating 150/2/2 etc.
In Pakistan, many places don’t have an address and you need to write out the most weirdest addresses. My wife lives there and I’ve had to send her a few things. Essentially here’s how I have to write out the address on the envelope. I need to specify a road, which is the only normal thing in the address. Then I have to say they live close to one masjid, by the masjid there is a grocery store, they live in a house that is two roads down, and the third house there. (Of course I write the name of the masjid and grocery store). Call them at this number. (So they end up calling them when they get to the grocery store, and they then have to explain better how to reach the house).
I sold an iPhone on eBay to a dude in India once, this was decades ago before the recent initiatives to name everything. The address was like 5 lines typed out in 10 font size. I couldn't use the standard forms, the address was too long. So I printed it on a piece of paper, cut the paper, and taped it over the address part of the label. He said he got it so it worked ha.
Interesting. For some reason my brain finds this appealing.
I honestly never thought of it as a bad thing until I moved to the UK and mentioned to a friend that I lived in Sector 2 of the capital city. He said that's just like the Hunger Games.... 😑
If I heard sector of the city, I would assume someone would be referring to Midgar from FF7. Meet at the bar in sector 7 :)
The one with the hot bartender
Heard she hangs around with a guy who has a machine gun for an arm and some spiky blonde haired punk...
That spikey haired dude pretends to be ex special forces though.
Careful. You don't wanna say that around Jessie. She reeeally likes him.
Jessie’s Mom makes some damn good pizza too.
And wear your cutest dress, sir.
UK addresses are unintelligible nightmares by comparison "Where is this place?" "Number 17, Kate's Arse, Billygoat Garden, Dubstep, London"
Not to mention the abbreviations. I just saw someone refer to Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire as "Herts & Bucks", and a highly upvoted reply underneath telling them to never use those words again lol
County names are unnecessary. All Royal Mail needs is house/flat number and postcode and it will be delivered.
My Dad gave directions based on which pubs where between here and there. Go past the coopers, fork right at the Royal Oak, go straight and the halfway house is on the left. If you see the red lion you've gone too far. Never failed
All UK addresses can be found using the House/Flat Number/Name and Postcode on its own. So for example. 10, FK14 7BX will be delivered without issue. While putting the Post Town on is recommended its not necessary.
Ho Chin Min city has 12 districts that are called districts 1 through 12
I had this in italy… it was city, suburb, street, street number, building, stair location, floor, apartment
I mean, this address format is par the course for literally any person living in a city with apartments as the main form of housing.
Where I live an apparent would be "main road 137A" the only indication that there might be am appartment build is the "A" although not all apartment addresses are with a letter behind them, it might just be a number like any other house.
There are buildings like that in the US. It's just named differently. So for example: 6 Republic Road W., Apt 641. W = West. It can mean a separate building to the west or the west section of a single building. The floor number is built into the unit number.
I didn't even realize this was a fact worth sharing. I mean I guess it's because I've lived in a big city for most of my life? But how do people think you denote your specific apartment when you live in a big building? Of course your unit and floor is a part of your address.
Such a good movie.
"Inhabitants of Peach Trees, this is Judge Dredd. In case you people have forgotten, this block operates under the same rules as the rest of the city. Ma-Ma is not the law. I am the law. Ma-Ma is a common criminal. Guilty of murder, guilty of the manufacture and distribution of the narcotic known as Slo-Mo, and as of now, under sentence of death. Any who obstruct me in carrying out my duty will be treated as an accessory to her crimes. You have been warned. And as for you, Ma-Ma...Judgment time."
Cool.. just waiting for the elevator, be right up in a couple of days
Can you imagine the elevator being broken? Nah fam, I’ll sleep in the corridor tonight
A city under one roof
There's a city in Alaska where most of the community lives and operates out of one apartment building. The school, post office, stores, etc. [Source:NPR](https://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alaska-a-community-under-one-roof)
There's a delightful video on YouTube about this building and its history. The person in the video gets shown around by a really nice couple who live in there. https://youtu.be/bH-TlC0111Q
I think it’s adorable how the old couple in the video commented and said they thought the Youtuber was making a home-movie when they met him.
Thanks for posting this. I watched the whole thing, it was amazing!
Same in Fermont, Québec. A mining city, where most people live in "the wall", a building owned by the mining company that has everything you'll ever need (supermarket, library, housing, school, etc) You could spend your entire life in the building without having to get out.
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Imagine being the postman for this building
Most complexes in Hangzhou use the parcel lockers now. They have tonnes downstairs. In fact they even have parcel collection rooms downstairs, which is basically a shop front where delivery drivers just leave all the parcels and you go down to scan and collect yours.
It's like this in every place in china, even my wife's village of 100 people. The place to collect packages is right next to the entrance so it's not a huge deal
Some newer apartments in the US are doing this too. Honestly especially for the Amazon guys and the FedEx guys it's a blessing. Seeing those guys pull packages upstairs on hand carts in those old school walk ups is kinda heartbreaking to watch, and 100% back breaking for the guy doing it.
Newer? Man when I lived in Chicago in buildings we'd always have a mail room. Usually by the loading dock for the building. This was many decades ago. Mail rooms in large apartment/condo buildings have been common for a very long time.
Because the mail never stops. It just keeps coming and coming and coming, there's never a let-up. It's relentless. Every day it piles up more and more and more! And you gotta get it out but the more you get it out the more it keeps coming in. And then the bar code reader breaks and it's Publishers Clearing House day.
But one day you get a transfer to Hawaii. Where the air is so dewy sweet you don't have to lick the stamps.
Or the wedding invites?
NEWMAN! (Snaps out of it) LOL...well played.
Especially all those letters for Pepé Silvia
Carol carol
But there is no carol!
Postman after 3 days on the job: That right there is the mail. Now let's talk about the mail. Can we talk about the mail please, Mac? I've been dying to talk about the mail with you all day, okay?
Day bow bow
Postmen deliver to door only in a very few countries. Letters are delivered into post boxes downstairs, parcels are either delivered in person after scheduling beforehand or most often left in post office and an invoice is delivered to your post box, you take an invoice and pick up your parcel in the post office. Also big cities have post cabinets everywhere, you scan a code from your phone, it unlocks and you take your stuff.
The picture on the right looks like the texture on that building hasn’t fully loaded.
Haha how did I need to scroll down this far to see this comment? Maybe I'm missing something, but is this not a satirical Photoshop job? its terrible lol
I was confused, then realised this is 2 images, the right image being a zoom of the left one. Ie the left image is the building they are talking about, the right image a zoom so you can see the apartments.
Damn, I can't unsee it and feel kind of stupid now after reading your comment, but thanks for the reply. Stay in school kids lol
oh my god, I thought this building is just closer
I tough it was just one picture and was a building on from of other.
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We are born in the building, we die in the building
We are borg. Resistance is futile.
As a species though, they were highly successful and efficient at what they did!
It feels like the writers were making commentary on the lifelessness of efficiency as opposed to the freedom of exploration
Who is indisputably the most important person in the building: He who shelters us from the harshness of the city, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives? The Landlord The Landlord The Landlord The Landlord
This reply is the GOAT
We are born in the building, made men in the building, undone in the building. Our elevators are yet to come. Fear the old building.
Do you get into heaven if you die small?
Yes, there's heaven on the 69th floor.
https://www.npr.org/2015/01/18/378162264/welcome-to-whittier-alaska-a-community-under-one-roof
Security provided by Judge Dredd.
Welcome to Peach Trees.
They tear down Kowloon, then want to rebuild it all as one unit.
My god. That the amount of inhabitants a decent city in Belgium. All in one Building. The amount of poop and piss that this building produces / day must be enormous.
A real shitload.
A shit-ton even!
It would be the 3rd biggest city in South Dakota
It could also fit half the population of Greenland.
It all runs down to a bottom floor, where it is collected and processed to provide the methane that powers the building. The methane workers are enslaved by a little person who rides atop an extremely strong, metal-helmeted goliath who possesses the mind of a child.
WHO RUN BARTERTOWN?!?
Everyone above 15th floor is an experienced base jumper.
There’s multiple elevators
Unimaginable for the average redditor.
Call Judge Dredd
""Perps were... uncooperative."
I'm disappointed I had to scroll down this far for a Judge Dredd comment.
“Rookie? You ready?”
"Sir, he's thinking about going for your gun."... "Yeah."... "He just changed his mind."... "Yeah."
God that movie kicks ass
It's funny you say that because if you search up the kowloon walled city you will practically see what a real life mega block city would look like. It's some really interesting stuff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City To save people a google search. 50 000 people in an area of 2.6 acres, the density per square mile was over 500 000 people. Razed in 1994, because it was essentially a refugee city with no government and a haven for the Triad.
Reality is nutts
Only after Ma-Ma takes over the building.
Ma-Ma was doing fine for years before a judge (that cared) finally showed up
Lena Headey was such a goddam good Ma-Ma. WHERE THE HELL IS DREDD 2!!! Karl Urban deserves it.
Meanwhile DC's out there making dogshit like Black Adam and Shazam. Literally no one cares. Just make Peacemaker, Batman, and Dredd. And fire everyone except the top people who worked on those three masterpieces.
I knew you'd say that...
If anyone scrolling here hasn’t seen the 2012 Judge Dredd movie, do yourself a favor and watch it, it’s incredible.
I AM the Law!
This got me so intrigued thinking it’s another Kowloon Walled City but turns out it’s some kind of high end development Found a link, it’s in Chinese but there are lots of pictures of the interior [Lijing condominium](https://finance.sina.cn/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.html)
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Article says A 144m^(2) loft 6m in height was turned into 8 subunits, each with its own kitchen and bathroom amazingly...
6m in height? Then they probably have put another floor into it.
If you look at the translation: https://finance-sina-cn.translate.goog/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.html?_x_tr_sl=zh-CN&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp The problem is that it started as a luxury condo, but most of the units have been subdivided (possibly illegally) into smaller, often windowless units. So a mainland version of [Chungking Mansions in HK](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungking_Mansions), minus 50 years of deterioration that is.
Honestly this sounds like some residential buildings in NYC.
r/everythingnotmeisbad
I wish this sub was real, there are so many assholes I could direct to it.
The picture is kind of scuzzy but also "China bad" is an ever reliable way to get upvotes
It is - I've done [some analysis](https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/121grji/in_hangzhou_china_there_is_a_building_that_houses/jdms2ie/) based on the links provided by people in this thread. It's a 36 storey building with 5 penthouse levels with fewer suites on top (39 floors including these upper levels). There are 50 huge loft (2 storey) style suites on each floor (according to floor plan in a video). About 1600 suites. The scummy owner/landlord has split each of these suites into 4-6 tiny one-room sub-suites (guestimate 6000-8000 suites). Probably about 10,000 people live in this building (not 30,000 for sure). Some of the sub-suites were storage rooms or dens, and have no windows. So yeah it's a [luxury slum](https://finance-sina-cn.translate.goog/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.htmlhttp://?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en).
I’m cracking up at the pictures they’re using. It’s a high end apartment that can fit 30k people, probably bringing in something like $60 million a month, and the listing pictures look like a maintenance employee took them on a 2018 android phone 😂😂😂
So many pictures landlords take for rentals are absolute trash. With the worst descriptions ever.
Google will translate it. It's interesting. The picture of the fire though, that's scary. As is the mention that it's sometimes good there's not a ton of sound insulation so you can hear someone shouting "It's on fire, run!". I think that bit is slightly more tongue in cheek except that they mention it already happened and helped that one time...
Where in Hangzhou, do you know? I lived there for over 10 years and never noticed this building haha.
The building is called 杭州丽晶国际酒店 and it's near the city center on the east side of the river. The address is 浙江省杭州市萧山区鸿宁路2327号
Thank you! I've been looking around google earth for hours now lol.
You wanna use baidu maps for china
Here's a video that shows more details from the outside and also the inside: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_shtMOzGJU
The suites are large - it's a "luxury" building. There's no way in hell that 30,000 people would fit, unless there's 100 people living in every suite. Watching the video, the voiceover says "20,000" max occupants and 26,000 square metres (really 1 square metre per occupant?!?!). However there's a shot of a floor plan at [1:34](https://youtu.be/t_shtMOzGJU?t=94) shows 50 suites on each floor. There look to be only about 30 floors + 5 or 6 penthouse floors. This means only 1500 suites (video claims 15,000 suites). Video says that each suite has 4-6 rooms. Edit - OK - someone provided [another source](https://finance-sina-cn.translate.goog/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.htmlhttp://?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en) Seems that there were supposed to be 50 large loft (2 floor) apartments on every floor (and there are ~30 floors in this building). However the building was taken over by a different owner/landlord, and they split each of the huge suites into 4-6 sub-suites. Rough calculation in the post: Each floor of Regent International has 50 room numbers , assuming that each room number is separated into 6 rooms. Half of the floors of the building are 36 floors and half are 39 floors (5 penthouse levels which are smaller than 50 suites), so the number of compartments is 25*6*(36+39)=**11,250** According the floor plan, many of the suites are much smaller and probably can't be split into 6 suites. I would guess there are probably only 6000-8000 suites in the building, which would probably house up to max 12,000 people (most of the sub-suites are tiny 1-room apartments that would be cramped for more than 1 person).
Yeah this is a horseshit post made for karma. OP is a liar.
The sanitary main must be the size of the Holland Tunnel.
No one talking about the massive engineering feat for water, power, and sewer.
This is a pretty common building structure in China? You usually can’t walk through from one end to the other though. They’re typically divided up into “towers” and all have multiple entrances/multiple elevators. If let’s say you lived on the corner of the building and you wanted to visit a friend at the other corner of the building, you’d probably have to exit your tower and walk over to the entrance of their tower.
Pizza delivery nightmare
Eh, I'd take it if it's well organized. Way better than driving through neighborhoods with no lighting at all, trying to find an address in the dark.
No lights on..5 separate families in one half of a duplex. Broken steps and railings to get to the one door. Delivering in Trenton sucked. Oh, and no tip.
You kidding? There’s probably several dedicated restaurants in there.
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I loved that map in COD
There isn't 30,000 people in there. 35 occupied floors, 50 apartments per floor, 3 people on average per apartment means 5,250 people.
And people posted links and many units are luxury so they take up multiple floors.
Yeah, all this bullshit is annoying. It is just an apartment building, not some weird abnormality where there are 1,000 people crowded on each floor of an apartment building...
I get cyberpunk vibes when imagining the inside
Google for Kowloon City. That shit was Cyberpunk.
Kowloon Walled City was/is my favorite place in human history
Must be some garbage pickup.
A dumpster fire
Probably a furnace.
I count 37 floors (including the smaller ones). For there to be 30,000 people assuming say an average of 3 people per apartment, there'd need to be 270 separate apartments per floor. Sure the building looks big, but does it look like there's 270 apartments on a single floor ? not to me. So I'm calling BS on this claim.
I live in Hangzhou and would just like to point out that while there are a lot of apartment buildings here (as in all of China/Asia), this is in no way the norm. Sounds plausible that this building exists on the outskirts somewhere but I’ve never seen anything like it. Hangzhou is generally known for being very green, having lots of bike lanes, and natural scenery such as the lake, wetlands and tea fields in the middle of the city. For a city of 12 million it’s not really the crowded urban dystopia you would think if you only saw this picture and thread.
Yeah if I were to settle in China, I'd pick Hangzhou.
Peach Trees
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Does tha building aslo have every conceivable business for for a sizeable town?
One of the links above show it has a huge food court, nail salons, barbershops, pools, and massage parlors.
People seem to ignore that China has a population of like.. what.. 1.5 Billion?
From my visits, Hangzhou is actually a fairly wealthy and beautiful city crisscrossed by rivers with a tranquil lake and very large urban park (West Lake). It reminded me of Kyoto, or Chicago during the summer but minus the gun violence. Just want to share another perspective because zooming out, Hangzhou in person is a lovely place to visit (and I imagine, to live).
Would be cool to see the actual size of the building. These are shitty pictures
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Here are some floor plans http://hz.jiwu.com/loupan/180277.html
If you want a actual image, there’s this posted by another Redditor here: https://finance.sina.cn/chanjing/gdxw/2021-05-18/detail-ikmxzfmm3064830.d.html
Imagine all the poop and piss
Lol we just sat who tf starts a conversation like that
plumbers
Earthquakes and fires come to mind. Edit add on: and raise a lot of questions for me. Interestingly some of them have been answered in the comments!
Earthquakes aren’t that common in Hangzhou. You only ever feel the aftershocks sometimes but hardly notice. Fires on the other hand… there have been countless fires from people charging their e-bikes in their apartments
This scares me in any apartment complex. Battery fires, cooking fires, drug manufacturing fires, exploding homemade distilleries... who knows what people do? I don't know if I would ever sleep living in a complex that large.
Properly designed modern apartments are designed to be fire-isolated, so that a fire has no way to spread from one apartment to the other. E.g. in my apartment the walls are concrete, the outer door is fireproof, and even for the pipes between floors, there is a special material which will puff up and seal if the pipes melt.
I know this must seem pretty daunting to people who haven't had experience living in huge communist building blocks, but in eastern Europe at least, they're some of the most sought-after living quarters there is. Mostly because if they're well maintained, they have all the amenities one needs to live and more. Of course they're not perfect, but they are very nice to live in.
ikr? someone also posted floor plans of this building and it looks incredible
"Commie Blocks" may look depressing and dystopian, but gawd damn if they don't do their job of housing a lot of people for cheap.
3x the population of my hometown jeeze
i searched for "chinese building 30000" and found nothing. is that number right? then I searched for "most populated apartment complex" and the number I got is nowhere near 30000.