Posted on 12/05/2013 11:59:59 AM PST by whitedog57
China’s legendary ghost cities are coming to the USA! Here is an excellent video on China’s ghost cities.
China is known for building replicas of London and Paris in China to attract people. But like many of China’s efforts at planned cities, housing is quite expensive and has not caught on.
And there is even a fake Epcot in China! Unfortunately, quite empty.
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Senator Elizabeth Warren (MA-D) campaigned on centrally planned construction as a solution for the economy. Perhaps the Chinese are taking her advice.
With the growing presence of Chinese in the U.S housing market, particularly on the west coast, could a China Town in the Catskills be a winner?
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Where is the money coming from? Mastermind Li wouldn’t reveal the number of investors she has lined up, but she said most were Chinese nationals.
Is it an EB-5 visa deal? The EB-5 visa provides a method of obtaining a green card for foreign nationals who invest money in the United States. To obtain the visa, individuals must invest $1,000,000 (or at least $500,000 in a “Targeted Employment Area” – high unemployment or rural area), creating or preserving at least 10 jobs for U.S. workers excluding the investor and their immediate family.
The Catskills is definitely a rural area. But $500,000 for a visa that creates or preserves 10 jobs?
Will this be another Chinese ghost town on American soil? Sort of like EB-1 visas for the Greentech electric car plant in Virginia, then Mississippi , then Mongolia.
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Bring back the borsch, Grossingers, Concord.
Weren’t they considering a location somewhere between Detroit and Toledo as well?
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What? Where? What is that stuff?
Why big trouble? Foreign Muslims have set up settlements, and they are more dangerous than a few Chinese investors.
Will there be a ballroom for holding bar mitzvahs?
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