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Chengdu: A City of Many Faces (More pics in body)
(hexbear.net)
More images under spoiler tag. Sorry I don't have any higher resolution and I had to crop them because they were screenshots from WeChat.
If anyone wants to find the channel it was user: 我眼里的景 Post: 成都：不止一面
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The discourse on Chongqing is fucking disgusting on Reddit
I saw a clip of it the other day where some guy goes around on an overcast day and everyone in the comments was talking about how it looked like a boring cyberpunk dystopia. The narrator was absolutely encouraging it by saying people on the lower floors never saw the sun and describing the regular looking metro entrance as dystopian, but fucking Redditors see a walkable city built tall and because it's China they lose their fucking minds
Its also on the side of a mountain lol, of course its going to be built that way. I spent about a month there last year and my calves were ridiculously jacked, easily 8000 steps a day if you don't take taxis/Didi since traffic on winding mountains is more roundabout than just taking the stairs. American minds cannot comprehend a city where you can literally walk/metro everywhere you need to go faster than driving.
Edit: Food in Chengdu was better though, Chongqing has hotpot cornered but the variety and quality of more traditional Sichuan food was superior in Chengdu.
yeah built on the mountain of dead hardworking landlords chairman mao personally killed with his own two hands (the most physical labor his soft mittens have ever endured)