Lmao jk rich people make the news with issues that we all face every day, feel bad for them plz
There's basically no good reason to ever build a structure larger than ten floors. For residential buildings, make that four - you don't save nearly as much as you think you will, and it turns out that putting people into massive apartment blocks prevents them from forming community with one another.
People want to live in the city and people want shorter commutes. Imagine how huge a city like Tokyo would be if every residential building was four stories high. It would be impossible to have efficient public transportation.
Paris proper is almost entirely 5~6 stories high and has a fantastic metro system. Not many countries can have even one Tokyo size city.
I don't know why anyone would want to live in such a ridiculously tall building. Besides the engineering problems, it's ugly as hell and stairs would be practically useless.
It is kinda funny that they managed to pay millions for their apartments only to end up with these issues, rich people are awfully inefficient with money, but I suspect the article tries to get you to sympathise with them rather than laugh at them
Hey who knows maybe they will accidentally stumble into talking about Chicago's deliberately manufactured public housing crisis.
Hmmm today I will contract the lowest bidder to build this luxury high-rise
I dunno it seems kind of nice to know that even the rich can’t by quality anymore because everyone cuts corners in the system they’ve kept propped up.
The well theres your problem podcast on the Grenfell Tower fire makes me very wary of high rises, not to mention the insane logistical problems you have with moving people via elevators.
I want Justin Rosniak to read this to me while I try and go to sleep
