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I have in-laws living in China, and honestly - it’s a lot easier to navigate those sorts of high rises than you might think.

Most residential buildings I’ve visited have lots of dedicated lifts, so only 2 apartments per floor share one lift. So you would only need to provide something like: Tower 37, Floor 19, Apartment 2.

The Chinese love their delivery apps, too - their drivers (technically scooter riders) are very used to this.

Now the city of Chongqing is a whole seperate matter, that place is an M. C. Escher drawing in real life!

There's a good chance that apartment building has easy to find organized unit numbers that pizza delivery guy can understand. Building may even have multiple front entrances each with distinct addresses.

That's way more than the population of the whole town I live in.

Why do such monolithic buildings give me such hell-on-earth vibes?

We've heard about car brain, this is its cousin, detached house brain.

Tall, wide, building, scary!! OoooOoOooOoOoh

Any apartment building that size should have a couple floors of retail, especially food - they would make a fortune. If I lived there I would illegally sell teriyaki or something out of my apartment. Better still, run it like a street drug business - pay cooks and delivery people, and have distributors in between - they alone know where the kitchens are. Eventually it's the chicken fingers episode of Community.

Probably not that man for the food deliverer. High density implies having more than 1 order and there are likely many entrances and building numbers.

Food is delivered by pneumatic tubes.

Enjoy your pizza all scrambled and your soda is gonna go through nuclear fission 💥

So this is what Cyberpunk 2077 based its apartment complexes on

If I search the name, half the articles say 20k, other half 30k. Honestly, I have serious doubts about both figures...

I found some apartments in that building advertised on some random website for immigrants and those don't look half bad.

Such buildings allow for great efficiency (it probably has its own stop on some kind of rail transit and still a reasonable cost of living) and that includes pizza delivery. Imagine delivering multiple orders a minute. The salary (and tips, even outside the US) would be great. They will probably even allow you to call the elevator with an app before you walk to it for extra speed.

This might be better than most apartments I've lived in tbh, so it might work if looking out of the window and having the inescapable trap of modern life hit you in the face isn't a deal breaker for you

I am the pizza delivery boy.

I imagine with that many people there are restaurants and services within.

Probably has its own Pizza Hut. Delivery guys don't need cars.

Am I the only one who worries first about trash collection day than pizza delivery (wildly unpopular in China btw)?

Actually occupancy is likely somewhere between 10-20k

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-apartment-building-residents/

That's bigger than my entire village 😳

Does it have schools and shops too?

Could be it's own city.

Kowloon city at home