Could China, US Solve One Another's Housing Conundrums?(stupid)

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[DIRTYSECRET]

How about inviting retired Americans and those who can work remotely to live in the surplus Chinese housing.

Properly arranged, such a program could benefit both countries as well as the Americans who decided to live in China for the time being.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Absurd. Totally. To think something can be 'worked out'. These people are paranoid of outsiders. Think opium wars, warlords.

They attack Taiwan and potential hostages. This 'professor' cannot be contacted with any amount of ease.

[Lockbox]

I prefer…. I’m turning Japanese
I think I’m turning Japanese
I really think so
Turning Japanese

[posterchild]

How much of a housing surplus do they have? How many illegal aliens in USA are Chinese?

[Leaning Right]

As you noted, this would be a ready-made hostage situation. And beyond that, what about medical care for these American retirees?

You might be able to get a band aid from the local hospital. But advanced medical care? Forget about it - unless you become good friends with some high ChiCom boss.

I wonder what this guy will propose next. Maybe American retirees should go to South Africa because the scenery is so nice.

[dinodino]

This is an absolutely insane suggestion...and, as you correctly point out, they most definitely would not want us there. Just total lunacy, this idea.

[rlmorel]

"...How about inviting retired Americans and those who can work remotely to live in the surplus Chinese housing..."

Wow. They don't understand the basic reason this "surplus Chinese housing" is "surplus".

It is surplus, because hundreds of millions of the citizens of Communist China were given only one option to invest their money, and that was in real estate.

The builders got money to build, but there was no money to make the buildings habitable. No water. No sewer. No electricity. So they have giant cities that people invested money in to build, but the construction was so shoddy they couldn't be lived in even by the people who invested in them.

They paid money to buy them. Their "savings" such as they were. But they can't rent them. They cannot even live in them.

Crazy.

[escapefromboston]

And how nice are these Chinese housing ? We can send the people living in the projects there instead . They don’t work anyways

[DIRTYSECRET]

If the Chicoms are dumb enough to build unwanted housing they’re not capitalists. The buildings will ultimately deteriorate like the Obama library. The GOP should buy that building let it sit as an embarrassment to the Kenyan’s legacy.

[rlmorel]

FYI, here is the biography of the "author" of this pap:

"Paul F. deLespinasse is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Computer Science at Adrian College. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1966, and has been a National Merit Scholar, an NDEA Fellow, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a Fellow in Law and Political Science at the Harvard Law School. His college textbook, "Thinking About Politics: American Government in Associational Perspective," was published in 1981 and his most recent book is "Beyond Capitalism: A Classless Society With (Mostly) Free Markets." His columns have appeared in newspapers in Michigan, Oregon, and a number of other states."

A lover of the Communists and their way of doing things.

[dljordan]

Their housing has a tendency to fall apart immediately.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Gee, I’m retired. Let me think it over. Hmmmm. Nope.

[PeterPrinciple]

FYI, here is the biography of the “author” of this pap:
“Paul F. deLespinasse is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Computer Science at Adrian College. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1966, and has been a National Merit Scholar, an NDEA Fellow, a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and a Fellow in Law and Political Science at the Harvard Law School. His college textbook, “Thinking About Politics: American Government in Associational Perspective,” was published in 1981 and his most recent book is “Beyond Capitalism: A Classless Society With (Mostly) Free Markets.” His columns have appeared in newspapers in Michigan, Oregon, and a number of other states.”

A lover of the Communists and their way of doing things.

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good observation.......................

[PIF]

1st of all there is no “surplus” housing in China. The Chinese real estate market is nothing like the US market. Any comparison is stupid.

The Chinese vacancy rate is predicted on unfinished & uninhabitable apartment buildings. Finished buildings fall apart after the 1st year due to the poor construction.

The US “homeless” population is largely homeless by choice, are drug users and mental cases. They will continue to be homeless, only real homeless like some vets and the recently jobless, etc would benefit.

In China you do not just connect to the same US internet, you connect to the Chinese internet. Where there are no outside connection allowed - they are all blocked - so how would US citizens now laowhy [ foreigners ] work from home? How would they not be considered spies? How many times would they be hauled in for “questioning” before they just disappeared?

Who would pick up their medicine & medical bills? Can they afford to pay all the bribes needed to get a good doctor and nurses in a good hospital? A procedure in the US is not the same as the procedure done in China, where procedures are detailed and done according to CCP approval.

And who will teach them Mandarin and Cantonese?

[Brian Griffin]

Many Chinese men would like co-habit with a Chinese woman.

The main impediment is the price of the housing. It needs to get reduced.

The Chinese cities might have to throw in the land lease money they collected from the developer, or the equivalent, as most of the land lease money has been spent.

There was lots of vacant housing in the US circa 2009. It got vended off.

[rlmorel]

It was the brain-dead hypothesis of his article that made me look!

[Tai_Chung]

There’s lots of places Americans can retire to overseas. China isn’t one of them.

[goodnesswins]

Empty our prisons and send the illegals there too...

[DIRTYSECRET]

What’s sad is the mind think of getting rid of people who are ‘in the way’. Leads to genocide. Some people secretly wish their spouse would die in a plane crash.

[Olog-hai]

Paul F. deLespinasse is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Computer Science at Adrian College …

. . . a liberal arts college in Adrian, Michigan. Now why would Newsmax want to solicit the opinion of a former political science professor from such an institution?

[darth]

Two years ago we were renting a cabin in the Rockies where I am building a home. Rent was breaking the budget, so we prayed for guidance.

Opened Craigs List and did a search.

The Almighty blessed us and I found a cabin for $12,000 cash. Had water, electric, and an incredible view of the mountains from the front deck.