howdy macoolette! well those buildings should be torn down but I doubt if that happens, at least if things work there the way they do here. Those poor people probably have no choice or they'd move.
you go to your parent's home each weekend?
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Hong Kong had the same situation many many decades ago. With prosperity, the shanty town had to be torn down but the British Government built new low rent "relocation buildings" for them to move to.
Hong Kong set a model of housing the millions in such a small space.
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oh howdy there freedomshift! I've seen you around but I don't know where.
So your example of what Hong Kong did, is that good or bad?
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Imagine millions of people living in 400 sq. miles, including hills. Go there and see if you can find homeless people or shanty town there now - there isn't any.
So, all governments need to take a look there.
yes, good - much better than good!
One factor - no one owns the land - they are all leased from the government for decades.
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oh wow sir freedomshift..this looks like a truly successful model that governments all over the world should implement! very impressive.
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I do not know the history of Hong Kong but yes, I have seen their residential buildings few years ago and I was impressed. I was surprised to know that almost all buildings surrounding me that time were residential and not commercial buildings.
Here in the Philippines, most of those high-rise facilities in a central business district are commercial ones. Many residential buildings are sprouting here and there in the last few years and I see it still continues. However, those are projects of private real estate developers and prices are not friendly to those who will be coming from the community where I volunteered. Just a one-bedroom unit would cost a monthly amortization of around twice our minimum wage.
There are low cost housing projects of private developers but are far outside the business district. If you work in the city and live in a province with 2-3 hours one-way travel everyday, the low cost of the housing project is compensated with the killer traffic.
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Most or many buildings are mixed-use buildings. You can often find restaurants in "residential" buildings because that's common.
By doing so, having mix-used buildings as a common practice, traffic is much reduced because most people can walk to work, shop, and go have entertainment near-by.
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Many residential buildings here have mall at the ground floor but that is just for the convenience of the residents in the building. Still, it is a residential building. I don't know any facility here that combined residential and office spaces.
If real estate developers will indeed mix commercial offices and residences into just one building, I guess that will be a great idea. Imagine going to your office just few floors below in the same building where you live. Cool!
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If people are educated enough to explore possibilities and opportunities, they can move out of such kind of facility without waiting for it to be torn down.
No. I don't go home every weekend because there are those catch-up weekends, meeting with friends, or just me-time weekend.
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howdy there macoolette! yes Ma'am you are right of course, your first sentence, but there are a huge percentage of the population, at least in this country, who would never consider opportunities to improve their situation. I hope it's not as bad there, I don't know if that's just human nature or a cultural phenomenon.
But in regards to you...what does a "me-time" weekend look like? what do you do?
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I wonder why this is so because I see the same thing here. Any idea?
Me-time is either doing nothing or anything that comes to mind. :)
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hey there macoolette! wow your question is a huge one with no simple answers but generally speaking people become lazy and complacent when they get on government assistance which all of the poor people are on in this country and they develop an entitlement attitude expecting and demanding that they be taken care of and also a victim mentality where they think nothing is there responsibility.
We've worked with ex cons, people getting out of prison and they all have that same thinking.
as far as your last sentence..wow you could be a politician! lol. great non-answer!
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There was this video that circulated around Facebook about a month or so ago. The video was talking about a "study" of poverty. It was saying that poor people behave differently but they are not poor because they behave so that way. It is the other way around that they behave differently because they are poor. The "study" concluded that poor people will forego their different behavior if they are alleviated from being poor. Thus, the "study" suggested the idea of universal basic income.
I really wish it works that way but it does not seem so. We have a government program that gives minimal monthly allowance to poor families. After few years of implementing that, I am hearing feedbacks exactly the same as you mentioned about people becoming complacent. I no longer know how to help people like that.
On the other end, I cannot deny the fact that we have so many people struggling to make their lives better in spite of rampant corruption in the government.
No, thank you about being a politician. And I mean that me-time. It's just how it is. Get up when I want to, have a cone of ice cream for an hour or longer in a convenient store, anything that goes to kill time.
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