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[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] rarWars@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 days ago

Snopes has an article on it, and even they couldn't come up with a solid number.

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

[-] Blackmist@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago

30 thousand people used to live here.

Now it's a ghost town.

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 10 points 3 days ago
[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I counted 37 floors. If there are 37 apartments per floor since the building looks square-ish (those would be some small apartments) and there are 2 rows (one on each side of the building), that is less than 3k apartments. If each had a family of four, that is less then 12k.

[-] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 days ago

Why are you assuming 37 apartments per floor? That answer is definitely no sufficient.

Why are you assuming 4 per apartment?

Lots of assumptions here. Even being off by a bit changes your estimate by thousands.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee -4 points 3 days ago
  • P1: 37 floors
  • P2: square building
  • C1: 37 apartments per floor

duh

[-] ThePantser@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

This is China, their apartments are casket size. They also do time sharing where one person sleeps while the other is at work and then they swap.

[-] bountygiver@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 days ago

someone posted the listing here, the units are 80m^2, which is 861sq ft, that is nowhere close casket size

[-] Pregnenolone@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

This isn’t true for anything built outside the absolute inner cities, which this clearly isn’t,

They aren’t massive, but they’re plenty reasonably sized and aren’t “casket-sized”

[-] DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

It doesn't look to me like the kind of a building that would have this, but sure, maybe you could barely reach 20k is you squeeze people in like sardines.

[-] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

I think the capacity is 30k, but 20k people currently live there

[-] altasshet@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I wouldn't be surprised if the numbers were off by an order of magnitude. 1500 units with on average 2 people works out to 3000. Looking at the pictures, that feels like a more realistic number.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

That’s about 50 units per floor. Which does seem a bit low from looking at the pic. But 1000 per floor (to give you the 30k) seems way too high, unless the units are the size of broom closets.

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