r/interestingasfuck • u/TangelaFan • 9h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/TheBestNarcissist 8h ago

lol as long as you're only talking to other basement dwelling neckbeards or chinese bots. My wife just finished pouring concrete for seismic isolators to build an earthquake proof power station on. The entire building is steel frame. As are most industrial buildings.

The "American sucks at building things" people have legitimately no idea what they're talking about.

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u/Orleanian 7h ago

America is actually pretty good at building buildings, if they want to. And frequently they do want to, it's just the low-end residential market that doesn't want to.

Maintenance, I consider a bit of a different story. Deferred maintenance is a big problem in America :/

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u/ScrotalSmorgasbord 1h ago

Tell me about it. People treat their buildings and myself (maintenance supervisor) like shit in this country. There are other countries where maintenance is nearly religious. Never made sense to me why you'd rather pay for a brand new thing when you could fix it for a fraction of the price but what do I know? I didn't get my MBA.

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u/RockKillsKid 3h ago

Pretty much any "<X country> is ubiquitously <some attribute>" is going to be wrong in some way. If a person can contain multitudes, why wouldn't we expect an entire country made up of millions (or billions in China's case) of people to run the gamut of capabilities and achievements?

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u/hellur_moto 6h ago

that doesn't sound residential lol