What if You Lived in the Most Crowded Place on Earth?
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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.
#1 in most densely populated cities ever category.
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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.
Justin Cheng thanks for sharing! :)
Damn, did he ever tell you things bout the city? (If you don't mind me asking)
@Xavier Mratinez Unwanted triad entanglements... His brother got roughed up while he was home alone by some hired muscle, and as a result his brother turned to the triads, and ended up joining them... Witnessing gang fights with knives and machetes after school.... Unsanitary rats and roach-infested shared/public rest rooms... Honestly, despite all the horrors I'm sure he witnessed, he always had a very optimistic outlook towards life. He would share a lot of funny stories as well... Like he would laugh about how his roof flew off of his home during a typhoon, or when he brought home a bird's nest because he wanted to raise it when he was a little boy, but all the birds eventually died. He's one of the most joyful people I know, maybe because he's so grateful for the life he's been given. Considering that most people who also grew up in the walled city are essentially still living in the same conditions.
@@justincheng9241 has he ever thought about releasing a book or some docu/video or something along them lines? Cuz he sounds like someone who made it: lived at a really unsanitary place, fell into a pretty dangerous group of people, but eventually became a successful buisness man and during it all he alaays had his head held high. (Sorry don't mean to pry, but it's interesting to find places like this and know people who experienced it are alive)
Wow, your dad is so admirable. Huge respect to him.
The Mailman is probably crying tears of happiness watching them demolishing the buildings
I doubt they had mail or any other government regulated services for that matter.
For your information this place was demolish a long time ago...
Your name......its so beautifully written
@@pavithrak5632 lol I use UnicodePad to make this
@@MatterGD thanks to let know
This is basically like the real life equivalent to the lower levels of a hive world out of some sci-fi universe
*Star Wars' Coruscant Level 1 wants to know your location*
@@strikeone7803 Excuse me but Coruscant level 1 is uninhabitable.
@@Nugcon Then what about Level 1313?
Nugcon yeah it’s like a radioactive dump
@Weeding that's only inside the hives, a lot of planets are relatively normal
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.
yeah, this video is weirdly negative and has strong "youtuber clickbait" energy. Not too pleased with this one.
He talking out his ass with no proof. Would love to see live video not just talk!
Like, i dont think RLL has ever lived there.
They brought that one chunk challenge from minecraft into real life
lol, makes me want to play a modded version of chunk survival
@Micah Jamaica Bell thanks holmes, glad you figured out my master to plan to fool all of the youtubers. Btw It was a joke i didnt mean it literally
Micah Jamaica Bell yeah, u know, that was a j o k
@Micah Jamaica Bell It's a really simple joke, I don't understand why people still don't understand things like this.
Micah Jamaica Bell
r/whoooosh
The dentists in Kowloon used skillshare.
Yes
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Door-to-Door Hentai Salesman are ya? You know what to do
pls gib amine tidy
PentaLad you should buy a better channel banner pal
PentaLad spelling 100
@@ren96706 He ClEaRLY SaId IT LiKE ThaT oN pErPoSE.
“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
@DANK No, Kowloon literally means "nine dragons".
Ghost in the shell
DANK so you dumb ass think you know my language more than I do?
DANK ask any person from Hong Kong whether they speak Cantonese or “hongkongese”, and I live in a Cantonese immigrant family with ABCs who speak Cantonese as their first language. Also I have friends who’s parents are from Hong Kong, there ain’t no hongkongnese, my keyboard’s auto correct don’t even have that word. Just give up and admit ur wrong bro, that’s alright.
BootsMcNab correct, the whole ghost in the shell setting and Kowloon have a lot in common
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.
It’s a literal slum city dude. Garbage, drug needles and poo and urine. It’s equivalent living situation of animals being hoarded. This is people hoarding and not fun for a child lol
@@hunterinfected6 hmm I see. Ok maybe it depends on what kind of people live there. If it's the way you described it you are right then
When you grow up you build concepts and get yourself entangled into it.. I always say, either be a king who rule world and get to do whatveet he likes
Or be a kid who doesn't cares and lives his own little life
. Anything in between is cursed.. Hell or heaven is in mind
@@hunterinfected6 do some research bud
But how many Toyota Corollas would fit in there?
Beat me to it
Not a single one
@@Vengir 😧😧
Peter the Panda u have fat
Finally someone question about it
If this place still existed annoying youtube vloggers would go and make "spending 24 hours on kowloon walled city 😮"
if they could survive it....
theyll be dead in the process lmao
Nerdy_Jr.2737 Shut up
logan paul new vid idea
MrBeast be like: last person to leave kowloon walled city gets $100,000😂
I don’t know how the fuck that place didn’t ever burn to the ground. Seems like the biggest fire hazard ever made
Who knows,maybe they got lucky.
@@The_Mad_Regent is there such a thing as luck in a condensed slum?
It was always damp I guess
@@trevordavis8210 Well they are alive.... So I guess yes?
@@Artist_of_Imagination how much is "they"? For all we know there were human corpses everywhere on the floor
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.
Ah yes, nothing says "true freedom" like poverty, addiction, disease and sex slavery!
Pull your head out of your ass, these people were suffering some of the worst living conditions of the modern era. If you want to experience this "true freedom" right now, you can. Walk away from everything you own and just start living as a homeless person in your nearest slum.
Shhiiiiidddd
people in this region save face.
so I wouldnt expect those stories to be true.
same goes with china, they talk big, but peel back the surface and it's falling apart at the seams.
@@--Traveler-- Well I certainly wouldn't call it paradise, but it was certainly a freedom they only had there. Now, admittedly, I can only go off the documentaries I saw about the place and the protests that were documented when condemning it, but those things were all shown.
Based. Id rather live in a cramped city but be free than be a slave to the state.
I bet claustrophobia itself had claustrophobia after seeing this city
This 😂😂😂
My 1st MRI attempt I freaked out fast! When I lived in Toronto we had a huge park North of the building I lived in! Not a fan of suburbs now but no way would I live there!
Nice try, claustrophobia! But there is no santa claus here!
Jum-B I would die in this place just by looking or breathing the air
ikr
Hong Kong: demolishes the walled city, builds Disneyland for tourism
Japan: makes a replica of the walled city as a tourist attraction
You are wrong
The government built a park to replace the walled city
@@foodlover_pastaspecialist it's a pun. No need to take it seriously.
Some people can't handle jokes
archiei40x You’re getting HKer mad
Fifty thousand people used to live here... now it's a park
Baseplate, this is Bravo Six. Going dark.
I wonder if the park is haunted
Insane when you think about it.
the picture has the wrong park. the one shown is kowloon park not kowloon walled city park.
"Our so called leaders prostituted us to West!"
What amazes me is how humans can adapt to just about anything
Did you guys know that the architects and dentists of Kowloon Walled City used Skillshare?!
Lol
this deserves more likes lol
Oof
haha
You wanna believe that liquid dropping on you is 'water'. I get that.
Probably sewage🤥
ihuvNObrain Welp liquid poop
Some of it was. At least 30% of it was water. The other 70%? All bets are off.
@@michealjackson8716 Yea they have like poor sewage treatment they just have to dump it outside their window...Too weird
Its liquid acid
"UNFORTUNATELY we can no longer visit because it was demolished in 1994"
unfortunately 😂😂
lol
I rather live in that "lame" park than this disaster of an infrastructure.
*It was a master dirty ass peace*
Meanwhile nearby Kai Tak Airport where planes landed after flying over the Kowloon Walled City was also demolished - four years later in the year 1998. It was, at that time, one of the most dangerous airports in the world since it exceeded capacity and caused a lot of noise pollution in nearby neighborhoods. A new airport was built on the island of Chek Lap Kok off Lantau Island and has been there ever since; the last departure from Kai Tak was a Cathay Pacific CX3340 ferry flight to the new Hong Kong International Airport at 1:05AM of July 6, 1998. What's left of Kai Tak Airport is currently a redevelopment site where new buildings would stand including a multi-purpose sports complex, a metro park, the Kai Tak Cruise Terminal, a hotel, a housing estate, and commercial and entertainment construction projects over an area of more than 328 hectares (or 810 acres).
Just wanted to post it too
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.
and those buildings were built without supervision nor guidance from hong kong authorities. when they needed more space, a floor was added. not more than 14 stories, though, or a plane could swipe your pad.
They should have made a movie inside of it before tearing it fdown.
The closest they came was filming "Bloodsport" inside, which featured martial artist Jean-Claude van Damme.
Slum Dog Millionnaire got you covered. Go watch it!
fight club
Yea a new SAW movie
Look for Hongkong gangster movies back in 80,90 you will see most of them filming from there. You will see Jackie Chang running around and jumping on those rooftop with his own stunts back there lol.
how astonishing that this city just did not burn down to the ground. who did the electrical wiring?
According to the video, unlicensed architects or metal workers. The rooms probably didn't have metal wiring. Probably just a square of concrete for you to live.
Nobody did the wiring nobody.
Stevie Wonder
Probably lots of trial and error
They used skillshare.
“You can call 911 and get no response”
Yea because it’s not the Hong Kong emergency number
Random Twig underrated comment
oh....
Actually, Hong Kong's emergency number is different from China's. Hong Kong: 999. China: 110. Calling the Chinese emergency number won't help either in Hong Kong.
Lol 999 =666. No wonder they worship the dragon as satan is the great dragon. Not that you folks know about the elite and the occult codes
@@isaacng123456789 Got to love those vestigial Britisims.
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
Hello sir, would you mind sharing them??
Caracas in Venezuela is like that as you drive from airport to the central part of the city.
I'm sure some of these commenters would have you believe the constant deafening noise from landing jet planes should be considered part ot it's "charm". They wouldn't have lasted a week there.
Imagine what this city looked like if there wasn't an airport nearby and everyone built flats with 50 floors
it probably would have become a massive sky scraper made up of smaller buildings stacked on each other
Just watch MatPat's Ready Player One theory.
This video contains wrong information. I think nyc data pertains to residents not the people working in Manhattan.
It would have been like Jenga towers.
they probably would have continued stacking more floors up until the building collapses, then shrugged their shoulders going "okay, now lets try it again with more strouts"
*Claustrophobia has joined the chat*
More like *left the chat, since it's too crowded
@@MustraOrdo yea so claustrophobia would join u prolly thinking about isolation
Fr tho. I’m not even claustrophobic but this video is making me feel claustrophobic
Imagine how smelly that city is😖
*Social Anxiety has joined the chat*
My parents were refugees and stayed in this city when they escaped the war to Kowloon Walled City. Indeed, it was very dense. It is not like what the majority said that negative. People lived in there and helped each other. Also not everyone in the world could or can have the western lifestyle. We work hard yet we can't get fair opportunities for study, for work, or for life.
Ok
Thanks for sharing .
It's your typical hit piece written by a judgmental Westerner. Look at how many times he has to mention people eating dog meat, even though anyone who's born in HK knows it has to be extremely rare, and I've never seen it at all. I've never been in the Walled City myself - grew up in Taikoo in the 1980s. Of course I know slums and shantytowns and house boats were a fact of life until well past the 1990s. People just lived completely normal lives. I'm even willing to bet crime in Kowloon Walled City would have been lower than any US inner city. Certainly, I don't remember ever tripping over homeless drug addicts on the streets in HK. Judgmental Westerners watch these videos to say: "Look at all these dirty Chinese (or insert another group) and how superior we are compared to them."
@Shaun Smith The entire world will be in permanent war if the US had its way. 👎
@@pineapplesareyummy6352 Right, I am Asian so you must assume me eat dogs. You are racist af.
The rats and roaches must’ve been insane.
They would've all gotten stepped on
Oh man
I don't think so, they will eat it for dinner..
@@angeloj3139 yup just nasty
Do you mean the rats themselves were insane, or the number of them were insane? Probably both.
An introverts guide to places that MUST BE AVOIDED at all costs.
Oh shit...
As an introvert, I can agree. This is a nightmare, believe me.
One could get their own room for $5 USD / month , what are you talking about? Hell I'd have like a whole section of rooms cheap AF
@Christina Reynolds How do you do? Not really self righteous. You do know that not everyone loves to be among masses of people, do you? I never said how special introverts are so i wonder which one of us here really is the the self righteous ass? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@Christina Reynolds chill karen🙄 and get that stick outta your ass. You're being way too cranky like a menopausal granny lol
heroin? dog meat? plane spotting? 5 dollar rent? sign me up!
Plus a room available that’s barely larger than me? Sound like a great deal.
Hotel? Trivago?
@@mikecarmona4099 Meme? Dead
Insanity is a lifestyle
same
I feel like this video is more sensationalist then actually informative
It's feels like a movie reality you are discribing and not a place gouverned by actual social dynamics
I have subscribed to skillshare 6 times, so can i have my family back now?
Why not create a family using skillshare!
No. You have to also buy 6 years worth of brilliant subscriptions!
No it will cost a hundred dollars to get your family back.
No your family is a part of Skillshare now
I’m ded
No one:
The US: since acres and miles are too confusing, let's use football fields and Rhode Islands as measurements!
And washing machines
And cheeseburgers per obese people squared
bruh stop discriminating dudes
I rather live in measurement by football fields than 40 square feet of measurement
Stephen Anthony no Football fields (soccer ones) are really different from American football fields and also most people have a sense of sq km or sq meters than how large is the Rhode islands
Honestly that's incredible. The level of coordination required to ensure that it didn't collapse or burn down, it's truly awe inspiring.
I'm pretty sure lots of construction and maintenance are improvised. It's always amazing how well people can improvise if given the drive to do so.
Your the devil
I used to work with a lady whose dad was one of the developers of the city. They also live inside. They had a master map to off of since even they could get lost without the map.
@@shannonyau6997 So interesting, like navigating a maze!
WOAH, this is incredibly fascinating!
Imagine having something like this for a cod map
It already is
it’s called nuk3town
Looks like Aftermath
It is a map in single player of bo1 the mission is numbers where you find dr Clarke
There is a CoD map called Kowloon. It takes place on the rooftops of Kowloon. When the round starts a giant plane passes over both spawns.
It was in BO1 as DLC. It was pretty great for SND. The singleplayer for BO1 has a level in Kowloon where you can run through windows and rooftops and through crowded apartments, tonssss of badass guns in that level.
Imagine how gangs work in this city , your opps are literally 50 feet away
Lmao
5 feet
Gang 1moves one inch
Gang 2: GET THE FUCK OUT OF MY TERRITORY
hhhhh
@@sloppyoyster5779 Imagine being a gang only for your rival to be 30 to 70 metres away from you
Can’t imagine the weight bearing on those buildings.
My dad was in the army and lived there for a short while and he always says it’s no where near as bad as anyone says in fact it was quite nice
@@99awr43 that was 50 years ago.
@Maxwell Mcellis stop making me feel old
@Maxwell Mcellis They might be american, they don't know that, stop scaring them.
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.
Got to love Americans with their Acres, square feet and Football fields.
I'm American and I was totally confused. I thought he started with sq km .... then I'm getting farm measurements, feet, and sports fields.
It's like asking someone if they want to by a 1 sq Km of land of a 150 acre piece of land ... they pick the 150 acres, I laugh.
Exactly. It’s stupid, and I had zero clue what the channel was comparing things too.
Don’t forget that this channel only references American cities also
@@TheUKNutter This'll confuse the hell out of ya:
Kansas City, Kansas
or
Kansas City, Missouri
Washington - - - State or D.C.?
@@ammosophobia If you refer DC...you either say Washington DC or DC...
@@IntelTV I was born in WA and when I say "I was born in Washington" people ask me "The city or the state"
I agree. I use "DC" or Washington DC ... news articles still use "WASHINGTON - Today the President ..." which is kinda BS
USA and only USA: Let's measure by football fields.
Rest of the world:
Thomas Long it’s the same for the rest of the world assuming you don’t call it soccer
Galileo: hold my beer
(only germans will understand 😅😂)
Brazil:am i a joke to you
Brazil: What do you mean?
I'm not sure how an American football field compare to a football/soccer field...is it bigger?is it smaller? how much?
This city genuinely sounds like it came out of a sci-fi/dystopian novel. Like this would be the city the protagonists would have to travel to to find some mysterious dude called the "Cypher Man" to help them with their mission or something 😂
This is spacier and more well-maintained than the average hab-block in a hive city of Warhammer 40k 😂
@@raznaak what faction? Im tau niga
@@babla69420 I'm more of a lore nerd master than a tabletop player.
But if I had to choose, it'd be either the Salamanders, Space Wolves or Militarum - Tanith Gaunt's Ghosts.
Reminds me of Ready Player One 😂
Imagine a zombie apocalypse film set inside the walled city.
You’ve missed out a lot of important things. The city even had a set up a old folks home and pensions for the elderly and sick. There was a lot of amazing things set up by the people who lived there. It was also well known for its amazing food. People would travel to the city from outside to eat amazing food. Also they had cops and other folk who worked hard to keep order. So it wasn’t horribly violent. The rooftops were filled with kids playing and older folk sunbathing. The ‘they cooked dog’ feels pretty damn racist too. You could have done much better research on this.
Imagine saying "good morning neighbor" to 50000 people😂
*gamers
Or you could just use a megaphone.
that's gotta be very boring...
The morning end way faster to reach that number
hence the reason why we don't do this here lmao
imagine hosting a minecraft LAN world...
Explore Lucid Dreaming that would be kinda lit
Fu man, you’re just trying to gain subscribers off advertising your Minecraft stream.
monkeysHK sorry, now I realize now I have to delete my UA-cam account for being such a selfish idiot. Goodbye
I don’t know why I said goodbye
*STONKS*
“If you called 911 you probably wouldn’t get an answer”
Well duh it’s in Hong Kong not America
lol
It was
The past
@@keishakwok4333 During British ruling, the emergency line was 999. BUT IT STILL IS NOW after China took over.
Omg lol this comment is so underrated
🤣🤣🤣
I love the Rode Island example
Living in Australia where space is abundant, this looks like literal hell.
Agreed
As a Finn I gotta agree
Living anywhere thats not a major city, this looks like literal hell.
you need to thank god for bringing you to australia, not hong kong
@@xh3992 I'll probably just thank my parents but I understand the sentiment. Haha
This would be the scariest place ever to live
France during the Black Plague was pretty bad, same with Poland in WWII and a lot of other places. There are some awful places and times across human history
Not really that bad just mate to sound much worse than it was
@@99awr43 be gone troll
@@99awr43 be gone UA-cam troll
No, afghanistan would be worse
I have an old friend I met online in 2003 that grew up in that city. She said it wasn't AS horrible as videos make it out to be. Definitely lawless and dangerous, but she says people also really helped each other and living there got a lot of people out of poverty. We need to understand how adaptive humans can be in awful situations. How we're capable of surviving and finding happiness in the worst of situations. I fully understand my privilege, but I can't let that privilege allow me to judge other people's situation.
Sica: that's true and very well said. I've seen people living in Chawl and Slums in Mumbai. There many good people, rich, educated people living there. Not just all the negativity that's shown in the media.
@@TruthPrevail777 rich?
@@jackaube4327 yep some of em are rich like they earn somewhere around 30-40k USD pa and still chose to stay there because of the community spirit
2003 internet🙀 mam u r too early
Yes, what he told in this documentary was like decades old, and the city is so big u cannot just tell by looking at some parts of it.
American units are amazing. Not only units but scale; the idea of ONE PERSON living in an 111m3 apartment is just absolutely insane in Stockholm. Here that’s an apartment for a family of 5-6 people.
And to be fair it seems pretty good that they got rid of it it seems like it was actually pretty awful no matter how fascinating
what about the tent cities in every US city, those people living on the streets would be glad of the walled city.
He had me when he said the entire human race could fit inside rhode island if we packed ourselves like canned sardines like the Walled City.
Titans: *Its free real estate*
@@shygun3656 Everybody gangsta until you hear "Tatakae" and fangirl screaming
Aot opening starts playing
@Speed Junkie The biggest problem is that there's not enough arable land to sustain all of us. If all the land on Earth was arable, I think the Earth could sustain 100 billion people.
@@DacLMK the problem is that the majority of food we produce is wasted
The garbage at 6:33 is actually from Russia (feels weird to recognise the bottles in a random pile of trash on the internet).
lol
George K. Ох,родная Балтика
It's cause the whole country filled with trash and Soviet built, even the capital city.
P4th F!nder mate, baltica is a modern beer brand. I can bet that this photo was taken in some kind of forest or park in Russia
P4th F!nder We actually have a lot of Soviet buildings in Moscow,but all trash goes to countryside,where you can’t really live because of it(in some places,not in the hole countryside)
*For real tho. How tf do they even build buildings that close together?*
The buildings actually leaned into each other. It was quite insane. I had the opportunity to study in Hong Kong recently and even though the walled city doesn’t exist anymore you can still see some of the remnants.
Haphazardly.
They joined Skillshare
Should see some Italian periferies
A lack of building regulations or need for basic amenities led to some "creative" structures forming. I like to imagine that the whole city was constantly moving and flexing like a living organism.
As a swede, where your private freedom and individuality are your most valued possessions, living here would make me wither. I do commend the courage and true grit of the people that live here because for most of them it's their only choice and they don't know anything else. You are truly lucky on where you are born.
Funny that this was recommended during “social distancing” from Coronavirus
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I bet estate agents could still find a way to make this place sound nice.
rent costs a cent per month
The courtyard in the middle looks lovely.
overdebted I did research and it would be $5 usd per month
"Never be lonely or bored in this unique and picturesque Far Eastern conclave with abundant amenities just steps from your person...Just don't bump into your neighbors when your enjoying your new home in paradise." 😊
SoKo: South Kowloon
Hong kong is 63 times smaller than Ireland with a million more people
Well Bangladesh is 150 times smaller than russia and it has more people lol
Low educated countries usually have a greater population density.
Fsi4n that was a problem in 90s not now
They dont know what condom is
Yeah, even today Hong Kong is very crowded when compared to Dublin, Henry street or Grafton street on a Saturday afternoon? That's pretty much HK all the time 🤣
Seeing those numbers is just mind boggling in Australia it's 3 people for every kilometre
True. Our country is so empty. Even my suburb is like 500 people per kilometre.
someone needs to make a game that is set in this city
At least you would be able to get across the map quickly
Mr. Pumpkin 2
It was a DLC map in black ops 1
@@Azitem Was it really? I'm kicking myself for not playing that DLC.
CD Projekt Red got your back homie
I remember my arts teacher told me about this. It really fascinates me! I am a huge sucker for places where you can actually get lost in, example castles, catacombs etc. (As long as it isn’t natural caves tho)
So she, my art teacher told me there were even lots of people who had NEVER touched the ground. They were born there, and they had no needs to leave Kowloon, so they never got around it. And I think that’s scary, but fascinating to me. I like to compare it to Star Wars (ik lol) and the planet of Coruscant, where people born on the under levels have never seen the Sun or believe that the sky exists. That’s so weird of a comparison, but I like it. It is so scary to me.
fascinating right? the same reason foreigners comes to pacified favelas in rio de janeiro, all the alleys and zig-zag stairs makes a breath taking concrete jungle, a mesmerizing maze. specially at the top, where you can actually see the extremelly rich downtown beaches while you standing on a needy community.
You can still visit somewhat similar places ..
Imagine if coronavirus were to break out here
Yee fun 😂😂😁
No joke, virus’s would thrive in high dense populated areas with no sanitation. I wouldn’t be surprised if a place like that was ground zero for one of these viruses.
Well corona virus would be the first one will call 911 for suffocating
@Yürüyen Ansiklopedi 2 hours
@@martincamilleri7444 less than seconds
I would love to see a high budget movie take place here
I love how dog eaters are included on the list of hardcore criminals
dog eating is not any worse than cow eating, if cooked well :D
@@msmit3669 and what is different from eating cows to eating dogs?
@@msmit3669 morally, what's the real difference between eating dogs compared to beef or pork?
Pig are more intelligent than dog
@@hitnailhalfway2485 correct!
Suprised nobody has mentioned the fact you play through this city in Call Of Duty Black Ops 1
@Zouch yes
@@blaise1016 good man of work
Thank you it’s a dlc tho so it’s not as well known
@@Gogo-bu6rd yes and don't forget the mission with Wever and your trying to get the Nova 6 Doctor
@@Gogo-bu6rd also a campaign mission
Looks like a perfect setting for a post apocalyptic horror movie.
That’s what Agenda 21 is about
@@urbanistgod Otherwise known as a Socialist Utopia.
@@Crazyuncle1 Yep and we need to fight this. Not just complain
Like a zombie movie 😁
@@Crazyuncle1 In fact, this area is located in one of the most capitalist cities in the world. So it's more like a Capitalist Utopia.
For someone like me, with ASD, this is a nightmare. The less densely packed humans the better. The only exception is at a gig. But even then I can only handle so much
A GOOOOOOOOOOOOG!
"You're probably watching this alone."
That aged better than intended.
most people watch youtube in their spare time alone so that’s just dumb to say
No, I'm having a party over to watch this together..
AstroTime quarantine?
Because god for bid you’d say something funnier than the same old quarantine jokes.
I Heart Toast you say that as if being funny is that easy lmao
Sleepy Dean
GTA: Walled City of Koowloon
Oooh that'd be tight
Cyber Punk
David Large 🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
There’s a mission in Call of Duty Black Ops 1 in which you go through the city.
I personally find the Kowloon Walled City fascinating. According to the residents, there was a really strong community there that made it quite nice to live in. I feel Chungking Mansions are a miniature, less intense version (if you're in HK, I'd strongly recommend you went)
You can have strong communities without the violence, health hazards and general squalor. We should aim for that.
@@alexpotts6520
Duh! Just because a positive word is spoken, I highly doubt the speaker is endorsing the proliferation of "walled cities".
Yes! Chung king mansion vibes! Lol. I remember the time i randomly booked a trip to Hk not knowing it was HK new year ( i knw, how dumb of me 😂) hence ALL hotels were fully booked. Ended up staying at chunking mansion at the smallest dirtiest room ive ever encountered 😂😂😂😂 i still cringe to this day.
fascinating topic told in such a disgusting manner, it says a lot about the West psyche..
I stayed in a tiny guest house in Chungking Mansions and remember there being a travel agency called Lucky Travel. Such a fascinating place full of all types of people mostly whacky. Think I remember each tower being called a block and think I was in Block B.
4:34 brought back memories of "...and some, I assume, are good people."
*Manager: Can you deliver pizza to this address*
*Me: I quit*
Underrated comment 😂
*Stands in front of the city
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIImma just leave this right here you get it for free…
*puts the pizza down
*slowly steps back
*turns away
*runs
@@Ballin4Vengeance trips over shoe lace. Falls down and loses one of his teeth. One of the walled city dentists comes over and offers service hahahaha
@@saxenas Ni Hao good sir will you need the others too?
😂
My mum lived in there, she said everyone are really close and nice, she kinda missed and hate it at the same time
Really?
Was their any unique diseases
What did she think about dog meat
How did the evacuation plan work
I want answers
@@martincamilleri7444 Not that i know, i don't know any chinese that eat dogs and i won't eat as well, not sure she just stay there for not long time but she was working in the factory when she was 12, and after meeting my father she never worked again
@@JKMT oh ok
@@martincamilleri7444 actually i just asked my mum, she actually had a flat inside which was beautiful before everyone came in and ruin it. But after that because it was too hot inside, her grandpa and herself moved out of the flat and rent it out and they went and rent another place. she said it there were few factories inside which was illegal causing heat and noise, but the flat she had was normal to apartment and very clean. She was living in the outer skirt of the city.
Ooo lucky
If I farted there it wouldn't be so crowded anymore
If *anyone* farted there, it wouldn't be crowded.
@@andymadden8183 nah dude, my farts are like atomic bombs
They wouldn't even notice. With rotting garbage on the roof and no sewer pipes I guruantee it it always smelled like fart there.
@@akonnema No, worse... 😨
No Mexican all-you-can-eat for you.
Every pizza delivery guy's worst nightmare!
Let's make Kowloon Walled City in THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT
Where’s fitmc when you need him?
1s in fitmc be like
b r u h
2b2t shouldve been named KWC at that time…
Let's make THE OLDEST ANARCHY SERVER IN MINECRAFT in Kowloon Walled Cit, oh wait
Imagine being a delivery guy delivering something in there
i would ask the customer for a tip in advance if they want me to in trash hole 😂
Now we know what has been the role model for dystopian city in movies since the 1980s.
im getting some ready player one vibes
Yeah... this is literally just the setting for Dredd.
C E Three thank you! Thought of Dredd 30 secs into the video!
Psychopass inspiration jaja
Blade Runner
Yeah that looks like a nightmare, endless corridors of dark claustrophobic rooms, no sense of security ever, no way to quiet down as everything is permanently noisy, pollution everywhere.
It's like a nightmare you can't wake up from.
Me: I want Cyberpunk 2077
Mom: We have Cyberpunk 2077 at home
*Cyberpunk 2077 at home:*
Night city is way better than this city tbh
Kowloon is better than night city it has better graphics too
Kowloon is better because it functions better because it has less bugs in the source code.
@@EatMyShortsAU but lots of bugs crawling around in the city
Even better
It's unimaginable how fast gossips spreads in that neighborhood.
Ooh
Get yo ass whooped and a population of millions know
@@jameeboo A pretty girl farts, thousands laughs...
LOL!
wHat GiRls FaRTS?!¡! oH heLl nO.
Imagine a earthquake suddenly happen in that walled city
It would have been catastrophic
Bruh
I wonder what happened during strong typhoons. Hong Kong is q series of islands.
It was so dense that it protected from winds pretty well, one earthquake woulda killed everyone tho :D
Not such a bad thing. Nasty bastards should be ashamed.
The arcade in Japan closed about 3 months after this video was made. The entire building that housed it has also been demolished.
Sounds like a cyberpunk setting
I heard from someone that cyberpunk was based on Hong Kong
Yes it's the origin of it.
Also, you can see lots of low flying plane scene in Ghost in the shell because of this
it did actually inspire a lot of cyberpunk movies
@@lowriedwards8236 hey sexy can i buy you a drink?
Sounds like a bit of Coruscant was drop on Earth.
Daytdrr 24 yeah from the crime to no light
Was about to comment that. Glad someone did already.
"Another happy landing"
How did this happen? We're smarter than this.
So basically, a dystopian future city in some sci-fi movie
Literally Ghost in the Shell (see the anime version if you can, but even the ScarJo version has elements of this).
It would sound kinda fun to live there until u get beat up by one of the gangs 😂
@@lamp2419 nah, i wouldn't wanna live there
@@naranciabestboi2544 now that i think about all the down sides i wouldnt either 😂
@@lamp2419 lol
Me going there and calling my mom right after telling her that her dream for me to become a doctor came true
😂💀💀💀💀
This actually sounds like the lower levels of Coruscant
yes!
finally a sw fan! 😂
"I was about to say that"
Lowest level? Best level!
i was looking for a comment like that
I actually hate watching this video again after doing more of my own research. Many people who lived there loved it and look back fondly on it. Most residents were refugees from mainland China fleeing communist oppression, including the doctors and dentists on the outskirts who were only unlicensed because they were not citizens. They couldn't practise legally but they did have qualifications from China. There were two elevators in the city but not every place could be accessed using the lifts. The community was actually very tight knit by necessity. People kept doors and windows open for airflow and anyone was welcome to pass through others' homes as a shortcut. The buildings were hastily built on top of each other by unlicensed builders, but in some alleyways light did filter through. The original military buildings of the courtyard can still be visited. One of the main issues was water access: very few people had plumbing to their apartment and most residents, even the elderly, carried water up to their homes from pumps on the ground level where everyone also did their laundry and poured out sewage. Many alleyways had open sewers running through them and the smell was constant. The most expensive apartments were ones with window views on the outside. People built cages on the outside to maximise space. Heroin was an issue, but there was a Salvation Army preschool in the city and a drug rehab centre run by Pentecostal Christians. The people who lived there were not crazy. They were desperate to make their own way in a country as undocumented citizens or ordinary people trying to survive in one of the most expensive real estate markets in the world. You can find documentaries on UA-cam made at the time, and even a video showing how long it took to walk from one side of the city to the other (about 3 minutes). There's also a video of a guide telling amazing facts about the city in Kowloon walled park with a map made by Japanese surveyors. This video was overloaded with spectacle and sensationalism and barely contained any of the available photos and videos of the true city.
Thank you for this info - an extra-ordinary place deserves to be understood for how it was seen by those from it and appreciate why this video would be hated for both its misrepresentation and (perhaps) purposeful sensationalism for the benefit of the people who made it. This video's statistics regarding the overcrowding was good in that it showed some perspective comparison to other places. Praying that the people that lived there be happier and better wherever they are now - God bless.
This is really great to read. Thank you for the effort of your comment. I figured it wasn't as scary as they were making it out to be. I live in a third world country and although it can be dangerous, I see a lot more community here than the first world country I am from.
Sorry, but you’re objectively wrong if you actually think this place was nice to live in
Any specific videos/sources you can recommend that give more detail from this view point? Would love to see/read more.
@@Matevoz72 did you not read anything they wrote? They never said it was nice but the way this video narrates this city is completely wrong.
I love the BALTEKA beer can a bit after 6:26
Some of the things you chose to focus on in this video were a bit trivial. Unlicensed medical practitioners, unsanitary food shops, brothels and drug use are all pretty common in most poverty stricken communities around the globe. I wish you had focused more on the personal experiences of those who lived there.
Also, it’s pretty ignorant to think that the reason more and more people moved there was because they enjoyed that kind of environment. These are the places that you turn to when you’re so extremely poor that you have no other option. I guarantee you that most of those who lived in the walled city were good, hard-working people who were born with nothing. Not everybody who lives in the slums is a pimp, gang member, shady doctor or “dog eater”
Not to mention dog eater is a Asian slur and incredibly racist. This video is entirely reactionary and based on outside opinions. Very few facts, and very VERY minor insight and knowledge on the city. Just another white kid on UA-cam pretending to know shit, and speaking Ill of other countries
@@DoomJoy666 I couldn't said it better myself you hit that right on the nail
@@DoomJoy666 dog eater is a slur? but it is not something that is frowned upon, right?
@@TheRed4123 it becomes frowned upon when many Asians are harassed, attacked, and seen as just dog eaters in the west or other places
The bad things he did focus on are exactly the personal experiences of the people that lived there. Reality demands truth, not a candy coated turd.
"If you called 911, chances are you wouldn't get an answer"
Yeah no shit, Hong Kong wasn't American...
Dialing 911 will connect you with whatever country's emergency response you're in, after a short delay.
We use 999 for emergencies in Hong Kong
Dr Oktoberfest yea but calling 911 in HK will auto direct to 999 therefore the video was fair enough
Jack Barnes lol
@Dylan sky Yes you can, it's common knowledge that 911 redirects to the local emergency services when outside of the US.
SkillShare: how many sponsorships would you life from us?
RealLifeLore: *Yes*
It has quite became a habit now lmao
original
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Howd you get a picture of my breakfast for your profile pic??
So many families, where did they all go when the city was demolished? These are the poorest of people. Very sad.
But if Kowloon Walled City used Skillshare they could’ve fixed the city.
And using UA-cam's ad attack
I think the whole place was built by sharing dodgy skills acquired on their methane riddled streets🐩🥢💨😳
You shouldve went more into the history of the Walled City, its a fascinating topic.
Daedhart I know it actually looks cool, like something out of a video game
@@sethflower2067 There is a kowloon map on the original black ops :D
KurtSlayz also it reminds me of Die Rise on Bo2 😃
I don't know why
but some deep part of me wishes I could have seen it
You're not alone. It's fascinating.
Ikr
You mean curiosity?
Same here.
I very much like to spend a day inside. Never live there, but just enough to explore it.
This would make a killer video game concept
Stray
Bro u can't even fart without the neighbor knowing about it .
🏃🏾♂️💨
lol haha.
😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
@@peetak5597 fart from nose
Imagine being a postman and your first day on the job is ' The walled City'🤣
There is an actual mail man that mails to knowloon. Apparently he said it nice but everyone was high.
*Dark Souls area theme plays
How to torment someone
I think you found a new way to torchor people
@@GcubePlayer8 I’ll build a new city for that