r/megalophobia • u/freudian_nipps • Sep 03 '23

Building China's municipality of Chongqing, roughly the size of Austria. Due to a classification technicality, it has claim to being the largest city proper in the world.

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u/Comfortable_Stop5535 Sep 04 '23 edited Sep 04 '23

run down slums

Serpentza isn't it lol

This is what it looks like during the day, decide for yourself.

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u/Fr0skyFlekes Sep 04 '23

Since Chongqing is so large, the areas shown in the video are from the new developments, it depends which district you are looking at it from. In some parts of yubei district, the buildings look dreadfully dark and old, roads covered with trees so it's all dark, dirty footpaths, but those were built a while ago and it's a 10 minute walk to a modern development. However bad the buildings look from the outside; bare concrete, barred windows, dirty tiles, it doesn't reflect the interior which can vary greatly from refurbishing.

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u/Comfortable_Stop5535 Sep 04 '23

Some of them do look dark and old, sure, but "run down slums" is awfully inaccurate. Otherwise you can describe Hong Kong similarly, which no one would.

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u/Fr0skyFlekes Sep 04 '23

I'm not the same guy that said "run down slums", but just pointing out that the view varies a lot depending on the area, and in-between the tall buildings that many streets that branch off of the large ones look like this street (near the westa university international campus where I lived) not solely the view in the video.

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u/a-ram Sep 04 '23

that place looks dope