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Thread: Real Estate Crash thread
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07-20-2021, 11:48 AM #16476
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07-20-2021, 11:49 AM #16477
That helped.
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07-20-2021, 11:49 AM #16478
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07-20-2021, 11:52 AM #16479
China, dude, if shiny new trains are important. But Europe is pretty cool, too, Downtown to downtown. Fuck, you can ride a high speed from London and Paris to the base of Les Arc, and then there's another train running up the side of the mountain to the villages.
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07-20-2021, 11:55 AM #16480
Yep - https://www.reuters.com/world/china/...ia-2021-07-20/
Rode one of those fancy high speed Commie Chinese trains a few years ago. Pretty impressive. Went from the Equivalent of LA to SFO in about 3 hours 30 minutes. Probably take almost 3x that time on Amtrak."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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07-20-2021, 11:55 AM #16481
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07-20-2021, 12:00 PM #16482
we dumped money into cars. The roads followed. The vast majority of between city trips in 1916 were by rail; by 1940 (preww2 for us) ~90% were by car. Highways followed. You’d need to go back 100 years to change because we built almost everything for cars.
the “it’s empty” argument seems to ignore the minimal needs of bumfuckistanis to do anything but suck tax dollars, shitpost, and rant about gay transsexual whale abortionists I.e they ain’t going anywhere
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07-20-2021, 12:01 PM #16483
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07-20-2021, 12:03 PM #16484
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07-20-2021, 12:03 PM #16485Registered User
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I've ridden some Chinese high speed rail - nice. They've built like 10k miles of high speed track since 2010ish. We can't even get LA - SF built after hosing money at it. And they have a goddamn maglev as their airport train in Shanghai. Ever taken the PATH train to get to Newark airport? No wonder we're losing.
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07-20-2021, 12:04 PM #16486
A model of Spartan-eity?
We can't do it here because there aren't enough people to pay for tickets in the empty areas and subsidizing the train lives would be either socialism (bad!) or crony capitalism due to lobbying (differently bad!).
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07-20-2021, 12:07 PM #16487
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07-20-2021, 12:08 PM #16488
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07-20-2021, 12:11 PM #16489
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07-20-2021, 12:11 PM #16490
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07-20-2021, 12:12 PM #16491
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07-20-2021, 12:12 PM #16492
Haha - Yes, way too many times on that damn PATH train.
Was not at all impressed with TGV from Lausanne to Paris. I think we hit 200 MPH for a few minutes about 30 minutes outside of Paris. But large stretches of 150 MPH or slower. Shanghai to Hangzhou we hit 300 MPH or long stretches of 250 MPH. Smooth as glass. So much concrete and steel in those tracks. Just crazy to think about the manhours and material to build those high speed rail lines out. Only in a country with 1.3 billion people and no OSHA is that possible at the speed they rolled it out."We don't beat the reaper by living longer, we beat the reaper by living well and living fully." - Randy Pausch
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07-20-2021, 12:16 PM #16493
Don't stop in the empty areas. I suspect you'd fill all the trains up traveling between Kansas City and Denver if the trip took 4 hours. Chicago to Denver in 8 hours? Yes, please.
Throw in once of those services where the rails take your personal car to your destination and it would become even MORE enticing.
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07-20-2021, 12:17 PM #16494
ive been to China, dumbfuck, and half of the grinding shiftiness is because aspects were a libertarian fantasy. The other half was commie evil. But I don’t see “property rights” in the terms of western us “muh stolen from the Indians and given to me by the gubmint land is my inviolable castle”
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07-20-2021, 12:21 PM #16495
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07-20-2021, 12:22 PM #16496
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07-20-2021, 12:24 PM #16497
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07-20-2021, 12:31 PM #16498
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07-20-2021, 12:39 PM #16499
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07-20-2021, 12:42 PM #16500
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