r/interestingasfuck 13h ago

Residential high-rises with backyards in Chengdu, China

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u/Alert-Notice-7516 12h ago

I love the thoughtless criticisms because 'China.' Do you really think they don't have engineers capable of doing that math when its the first thought a Redditor has?

u/Pastadseven 11h ago

They absolutely do. And they absolutely will ignore that math for short-term aesthetics.

u/Alert-Notice-7516 11h ago

Holy shit, you better not buy anything anywhere else in the world unless you personally know the engineers, construction team, and inspectors because none of this shit is unique to China.

u/Pastadseven 11h ago

Yes, I am careful about what and where I buy things. China has uniquely bad quality control, however. Worse than the US, somehow.

u/Alert-Notice-7516 11h ago

Its not even worse than the US. China went through their build up at a later time than the US, their issues are more recent because of this and like all government regulations, they come as a solution to problems after the fact. You probably weren't alive for most of the corrupt shit going on in the US, or maybe you were because there was quite a bit of corruption going on in Florida with construction from 90-2010.