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One flew over the cuckoos nest
Originally Posted by OutToLunch
Monty Python -- of course!!
I remember back in 2003 I passed through a new subdivision in outer Sydney, every pillared McMansion perfectly presented complete with shiny 4WDs on polished stone driveways... every couple of hundred metres there was a huge glossy sign on the roadside with a picture of happy perfect people and a single word caption like "PLAY", "RELAX" or "ENJOY". It was truly eye-popping. We couldn't get out of there fast enough, back past the immaculate gates to the outside world where there was at least a little bit of dust and long grass and real people with slight imperfections. My friend had warned me in advance that I would be shocked and she was right!
Please.. if I ever get to retirement age and start to lust after something like this, someone do me a favour and belt me over the head with a spade... really hard...
Hmm. All joking aside; it really is a little disturbing - artificial societies and environs are not sustainable in the broader sense - have a look at what's going on in Dubai now that reality has struck.
I'm in the camp which regard towns and communities as having to exist for real reasons - economic and social. Tinsel and tea with the neighbours only happens because these places defy entropy - - a concept in physics which says that you cant do anything without making a mess - to keep places like this '1950s American Dream' tidy and tickety-boo, then how many slums have to be created to support such a fantasy?
Oh - and as for the spade whacking - could you do similar for me and take me to Dr Lee-Enfield (please aim true, make it clean and quick). On second thoughts - let me join such a community today - - it should only take six months before I'm blackballed and run out of town. It will be a hoot.
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Originally Posted by Casa del Energia
Hmm. All joking aside; it really is a little disturbing - artificial societies and environs are not sustainable in the broader sense - have a look at what's going on in Dubai now that reality has struck.
What is going on in Dubai now that reality has struck? I was last there in Sept/Oct. when 'reality' was just striking. Nothing seemed to be changing. As far as I know there's still a lot of projects underway, albeit at a slower pace.
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Originally Posted by funguspudding
What is going on in Dubai now that reality has struck? I was last there in Sept/Oct. when 'reality' was just striking. Nothing seemed to be changing. As far as I know there's still a lot of projects underway, albeit at a slower pace.
I've read a few articles about supposedly "thousands of cars" abandoned by expats at airport parking lots who appear to be returning home like it's the last flight out of Saigon in 75
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Originally Posted by lakedaemonian
On a brighter note, I know of a few people gaining valuable low speed motorcycle experience on their learners licenses driving the empty streets of White Elephant Pegasus Town
Ssh – Christchurch boy racers may get an idea!
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Originally Posted by funguspudding
You must have been looking at the wrong site from the air,
Perhaps it was the $20m hotel and villa complex being built as part of the Waipara Wine Village
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Originally Posted by funguspudding
What is going on in Dubai now that reality has struck? I was last there in Sept/Oct. when 'reality' was just striking. Nothing seemed to be changing. As far as I know there's still a lot of projects underway, albeit at a slower pace.
It's apparently all custard now - idle building sites, 50% drop in real estate value and people leaving in a hurry - apparently, if you owe money and can't pay - it means jail time - hence the abandoned cars at airports - leave or end up in the slammer.
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Originally Posted by Casa del Energia
It's apparently all custard now - idle building sites, 50% drop in real estate value and people leaving in a hurry - apparently, if you owe money and can't pay - it means jail time - hence the abandoned cars at airports - leave or end up in the slammer.
yep...this is surely to blow over with the sun shining again by next tuesday
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Just drove past and needless to say turned around and had a look
SCaRy!!!
Will end up being called Peg town (cos there are lots of them)
The only hope they have is the fact that the people down here (that I have met over the last two weeks ) are so racist they may well lock themselves away in this commune and live happily ever after
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