chem1st Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 The Chinese built a lot of housing in a short space of time. Perhaps we should invite them to invest over here! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-18680217 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happ Hazzard Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 The Chinese know how to get things done. It would take our government (Tories or Labour) 3 years just do have meetings to discuss it. Then the building would take a decade, at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyboy Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Would you like to live in a place like that? Hasn't Sheffield got a giant block of flats that no one wants to live in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinz Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Would you like to live in a place like that? Hasn't Sheffield got a giant block of flats that no one wants to live in? Not surprising. I wouldn't either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chem1st Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 Would you like to live in a place like that? Hasn't Sheffield got a giant block of flats that no one wants to live in? That's only because to be able to afford to live there you have to be in the top 10% of the cities earners. And said accommodation is in the bottom 10%. £90k for a bedsit at parkhill come on!. I'd rather buy a 'one of each' underneath the archway and inject heroin into my scrotum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj.scuba Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Got to hand it to the Chinese they know how to get things done quick. Spain has also got some ghost towns, all built during a property boom that nobody wants to buy now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddybare Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 Yup. Cheap, cheerful and shoddy. That's what we need here to solve the housing shortage. Forget those pesky building regs, let's model our houses on Chinese built African ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordonb Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I think it is great that the Chinese are spending so much money in Africa almost turning it into a colony. Perhaps they will all end up with Chinese Passports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ooisit Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 I know someone who worked as a QS on this project and hated it, they had to live in a safe house surrounded by guards and have an armed escort to and from work every day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taxman Posted July 3, 2012 Share Posted July 3, 2012 If you think the Chinese are so great..go and live over there! To my mind they are a Communist degenerative state hell bent on spreading their influence across the globe whilst crushing any opposition, be that political, geographical or economical. Wiping out ecosystems, invading soveriegn countries and trying to influence things from the highest Government, to local festivals that might possibly want to show an anti Chinese government film one afternoon. Personally I consider the spread of Chinese influence across the globe to equally, if not worse, than the spread of radical Islam. A pox, or bird flu, on both their houses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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