What if You Lived in the Most Crowded Place on Earth?

Kowloon Walled City was the most densely populated place ever in all of world history. Unfortunately, the city was demolished in 1994 but what would your life have been like if you lived inside? This is my attempt to explain.

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[MatterGD]

The Mailman is probably crying tears of happiness watching them demolishing the buildings

[sgtpetergreen]

This is basically like the real life equivalent to the lower levels of a hive world out of some sci-fi universe

[WkShu]

The Kowloon walled city was not as bad as it is described. I lived there for a couple of years when I was very young. It's a very interesting place. Lots of memories in there.

[Mazxlol]

Living in crowded spaces can be interesting because there's lots of people and you likely to have friends close by. No need to drive far away to hang out, just go down a few floors or buildings etc. At least as kids. As adults maybe it's not as fun.

[door-to-doorhentaisalesman]

The dentists in Kowloon used skillshare.

[trevordavis]

I don’t know how the fuck that place didn’t ever burn to the ground. Seems like the biggest fire hazard ever made

[RichSmithson]

Where i live the population is 52, 000. Just down the road is a Football field. I cant image the entire population of my town fitting on 4 football fields. No wonder they were living on top of each other.

[TheNuclearGeek]

Kowloon was so beloved by the people that lived there, even military threat didn't drive them out. Apparently they had the best noodles in Hong Kong. Dentists, Doctors, Barbers, Air Conditioning, Postal Service, even schools all located in there and grown organically.
With a chaperone that actually lived there, I would have loved to spend a couple of days living there and get to experience what the truest freedom in the modern world was like.

[DaesoTheOne]

“You can call 911 and get no response”

Yea because it’s not the Hong Kong emergency number

[collinm]

If this place still existed annoying youtube vloggers would go and make "spending 24 hours on kowloon walled city 😮"

[rodneyfaulkner]

Wow great information, I remember and flying into HK and basically through this area in 1980, i would need to go through my old 35mm slides, but was so amazed to be this close to buildings and seeing people in their homes as we landed

[criticaltheories]

What amazes me is how humans can adapt to just about anything

[justincheng]

Fun fact: My dad grew up in the kowloon walled city. Unlike most former residents of the walled city, he came from a family of businessmen/entrepreneurs and as a result, him and his family were able to lift themselves out of poverty. He was the first in his family to earn a degree (from a Canadian University) and now is involved in the high-tech clean energy business. He was a successful man, but most important of all, he was a good man with the kindest and most loving heart. Incredibly proud to call him my father. Watching videos about the Kowloon Walled City makes me respect him so much more, knowing how much he had to endure in order to give me the life I have right now.

[charliemccoy]

They brought that one chunk challenge from minecraft into real life

[lolsaLlama]

Just like the walled city, the arcade 'Anata no Warehouse' in Kawasaki no longer exists. It closed down for "various reasons" but a main one was over disputes with the landlord in Nov 2019.

[FakePale]

Fifty thousand people used to live here... now it's a park

[kumoharu]

“Kowloon” in Chinese means “nine dragons, ” and this place was one of the biggest inspirations of cyberpunk, the landscape had influenced so many cyberpunk movies and anime

[zoidsfan]

Woah woah woah woah. I already knew about Kowloon and the people that lived there. But the fact that the whole thing was built by the squatters too. Holy shit dude. That's outright impressive. Like that actually makes me proud of what we can do as a community.

[Mikuux]

well in hong kong we now have uhm human cages for people to pay 6k per month and 20 people use the same bathroom and everyone uses the same kitchen

[peterthepanda]

But how many Toyota Corollas would fit in there?