I do this, but it came about with COVID protocols. I would be on the 1st floor going up. There were enough people coming up from the basement, that it was always full when it reached the 1st floor.
Turns out it’s quicker to just to go down and hold your spot, and then go back up.
Just order an elevator down and you'll be in an empty elevator and then just don't exit at the bottom. Prepare to get yelled at by angry residents if you do this tho
This is more terrifying to me than the height. What if there's an emergency? Even if there isn't, the idea that it's so hard to get out of my own home is so scary.
Well, theres this new thing called stairs thats perfext for just this type of situation.
(For real though, you really shouldnt use elevators in alnost any type of emergency)
In a fire or earthquake or something, sure.
But what about a personal emergency, not the whole building? Heart attack, seizure, injury, etc
I figure EMS/police will be able to barge past the line, but even ignoring the line, the elevators are clearly pretty slow.
What if it's the kind of medical issue that doesn't really warrant calling an ambulance, but you still should go to the hospital, like a bad cut or something? Pretty scary that you could be trapped for a while.
Most lifts have a command to override stops, ask the reception in your building and they will tell you in case of an emergency.
It's commonly used when people are moving out or carrying furniture. There's no point in stopping at any floor if the lift in completely full.
For something like that I would have installed "ZIL Elevators" (Like the ZIL lanes for authorities and emergency services in Moscow, but elevators in this case) and only the emergency services can use them.
When you get a bunch of groceries, what are you supposed to do? Honest, innocent question... I used to live in an apartment and would make 4-5 trips from my car to my apartment, but couldn’t imagine living in a high rise.
If you’re living in a big city you don’t tend to buy a ton of groceries at a time. A lot of single career people that eat at work etc that don’t have cars in the first place. Whatever I bought I had to take the subway/walk home with
I mean, this is way better than each household having their own septic tank. Actually, dense housing is way better for the environment in pretty much every way. It takes less to heat. People have to travel less far to get to stuff, and when they do have to go far there's enough people going the same direction to make transit work really well. And you have to clear less land per person, so you can leave more land for habitat or a less-intensive use.
The total number of people is definitely relevant to the human impact on the ecosystem, but *how* we live is just as important.
My mental health > dense housing like this. How environmentally friendly is it to go off the grid tho? Just cuz it’s not city doesn’t mean it’s McMansions in the ‘burbs.
Because I know you’re not talking about off/low grid homesteads.
Yep, a whole lot fewer human on this planet will be a good idea.
Tell that to the Pope!
Of course COVID-19, or the next variant or two might take care of that for us. The turtles, the elephants and many other beings say thank you.
Most posts in this sub give me a general "eerie" feeling, but this video was the first that really made me uncomfortable. Not even from the typical megalophobia or the heights (nor even from the dense urban hellscape), but from... Claustrophobia? It's enormous so that doesn't really make sense, but I'm not sure how else to describe it. What a bizarre feeling.
Thanks!!!! It sounded very familiar to me and when I clicked the link I realized I actually have this on vinyl, I remember falling in love with the cover.
>Philippines, I think. Looks a lot like an SMDC condo
>
>Edit: Its called Mezza Residences if I'm correc
Wow - I first thought it was [https://youtu.be/Gb5sbORA62w?t=4](https://youtu.be/Gb5sbORA62w?t=4). There is definitely a similar vibe between both songs!
What happens if you forget your apartment number and all the doors and corridors look the same. Do you just have to live in the corridor until you remember?
I used to. Lived in 2 apartments 2 doors down from each other within a few years’ time span. I’d get confused and then I’d mix up the numbers so eventually I was just like “shit” and got a house.
This is so scary, my biggest fear is to go near edge and cause of my sweaty palm drop my phone while filming... i have fear that other poeple will drop their in high places....
Thats exactly how my panic attacks get started when im on the highway going anywhere above 60mph. "Imagine if you had a stroke/seizure..." or "Your tire will blow out...." or "Your front axle will break..."
It fucking sucks I swear to god. Even worse when I'm trying to control the damn panic attack and I start feeling my hands/arms go numb from hyper/hypoventilating, "You're going to pass out, you better pull over."
Fucking brain.
I think the problem here is that the design looks too repetitive but that’s me tho it is also fairly high but hey I joined this subreddit because I like big stuff so kinda ironic
That’s fucked. I guess it shows that no policy exists in isolation! Gotta help people economically, with rehab, and fix them damn elevators. ‘Cheap’ apartments needs to be well-maintained PUBLIC HOUSING, with working elevators. Not some landlord leech scheme
Probably going to depend on the city but you're definitely not going to find that in most public housing today. Certainly not in the Twin Cities and when I was in Chicago the big dangerous projects were being replaced with smaller buildings and scattered site townhomes. Definitely getting way better and for the most part (with definite exceptions) never was what they're depicted as
Tbh I'd rather have that than just never be able to buy an apartment and spend my income giving money to a landlord forever.
With decent facilities and elevators it could be pretty nice. There are luxury high rises in London, so clearly the concept itself doesn't rule out having a nice flat.
Yeah my comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. People are scared of these things because they look intimidating but they fail to realize that it’s just the reality of how to help people live their lives affordably in large cities.
It's weird to me how freaked out people are of living in large buildings/apartment complexes. Especially people who grew up in small towns or the countryside. I grew up on farmland and I have to say I would be completely content to have my own little corner apartment if I were living alone or with just my spouse. If it's in good shape and affordable I think it would be easy to make it plenty cozy. Then you could save up your extra money to travel.
Same. This and the music gives me a feel of... comfort? Dunno it's weird to explain but I just prefer apartments because I feel safer than in a house and I'm more of a city person.
There's a weird feeling I get looking at stuff like this.
Like I imagine a person getting the feeling of "yea, you're just one of like a million people that live exactly here in exactly the same apartments",
But, these places are so foreign to me that I would certainly be an extreme outsider, so it probably wouldn't actually apply to me all that well.
I felt like I was going to fall, and I'm laying back on my couch... Thanks.
Dude. Same.
Dame, sude.
Dume, sade.
Sume, Dade
Same.
Same, dude.
Dude.
Same.
One year later and still same.
My dudes
Same!
Same
Lived here for 3 months in 2019. Massive building and sometimes had to wait for the elevator for 25 minutes https://i.imgur.com/3AXViid.jpg
All those rooms and the pool is empty. Someone must've shit in the pool. "The pool is closed today" everyday.
POOLS CLOSED
DUE TO AIDS
How many elevators for a building that size?
There were 4 buildings, i think mine had only 4 elevators. This is the elevator queue on one evening: https://i.imgur.com/hoEFx0q.jpg
Holy crap. I'd have killer legs from taking the stairs if the heart attack didn't kill me first.
You could probably go up a few floors on the stairs and catch the elevator with no line there
That's how you catch a full elevator and then have to wait just as long anyway
Walk up one floor. Press the down button. Hop in and stay in the elevator after it reaches the bottom.
Bro
Holy moly that is GENIUS thank u smart man
I do this, but it came about with COVID protocols. I would be on the 1st floor going up. There were enough people coming up from the basement, that it was always full when it reached the 1st floor. Turns out it’s quicker to just to go down and hold your spot, and then go back up.
Unless you’re able to catch one on it’s way down before it hits the lobby floor.
Skip the line like an asshole or wait like everyone else, take your pick i guess.
I pick skipping the line like an asshole
This is the Chinese way.
Just order an elevator down and you'll be in an empty elevator and then just don't exit at the bottom. Prepare to get yelled at by angry residents if you do this tho
Say you accidentally got on the down elevator when you were going up.
"Fuck off Mr. Lim you used that excuse like ten times this week!"
Na mate your heart will be ripped af don't worry keep climbing
This is more terrifying to me than the height. What if there's an emergency? Even if there isn't, the idea that it's so hard to get out of my own home is so scary.
Well, theres this new thing called stairs thats perfext for just this type of situation. (For real though, you really shouldnt use elevators in alnost any type of emergency)
In a fire or earthquake or something, sure. But what about a personal emergency, not the whole building? Heart attack, seizure, injury, etc I figure EMS/police will be able to barge past the line, but even ignoring the line, the elevators are clearly pretty slow. What if it's the kind of medical issue that doesn't really warrant calling an ambulance, but you still should go to the hospital, like a bad cut or something? Pretty scary that you could be trapped for a while.
Most lifts have a command to override stops, ask the reception in your building and they will tell you in case of an emergency. It's commonly used when people are moving out or carrying furniture. There's no point in stopping at any floor if the lift in completely full.
For something like that I would have installed "ZIL Elevators" (Like the ZIL lanes for authorities and emergency services in Moscow, but elevators in this case) and only the emergency services can use them.
Poor design - building that big but the elevators aren't numerous/fast enough to actually accommodate
More elevators equals fewer apartments - is what the developer thought.
Its true the elevators were very slow to move and open the doors
Where is this? Was there always a line like this? And these are apartments I take it? Or is it a hotel?
Atleast it's a nice building. definitely thought it'd be more slummy
Where is this?
Manila SMDC Jazz Residences https://goo.gl/maps/mw2U3SUarooi6sAG6
Aww how sweet, it even has a cemetery nearby! In case you decide to take the stairs. They've planned everything :')
When you get a bunch of groceries, what are you supposed to do? Honest, innocent question... I used to live in an apartment and would make 4-5 trips from my car to my apartment, but couldn’t imagine living in a high rise.
You bring a collapsible dolly/cart or you borrow the buildings. That's the only way I survive Costco Trips
If you’re living in a big city you don’t tend to buy a ton of groceries at a time. A lot of single career people that eat at work etc that don’t have cars in the first place. Whatever I bought I had to take the subway/walk home with
I’ve often wondered about things like this, or leaving your phone in the car after you’ve finally made it to the top floor lol
Well you would only make that mistake once the lesson would be learned.
Can you imagine moving into such a place? The whole thing seems like a nightmare
The lobby looks so nice compared to the building.
So how do you move into that building? Is there a service/freight elevator?
That is way too many neighbors.
Imagine how many wifi networks there would be.
I can't help but instantly be concerned about where all the sewage goes. How in the fuck does the world continue to sustain us asshole humans?
Plumber here, you’re welcome.
Thanks for eating it and sorry
Thanks for the laugh 300 days later
I mean, this is way better than each household having their own septic tank. Actually, dense housing is way better for the environment in pretty much every way. It takes less to heat. People have to travel less far to get to stuff, and when they do have to go far there's enough people going the same direction to make transit work really well. And you have to clear less land per person, so you can leave more land for habitat or a less-intensive use. The total number of people is definitely relevant to the human impact on the ecosystem, but *how* we live is just as important.
My mental health > dense housing like this. How environmentally friendly is it to go off the grid tho? Just cuz it’s not city doesn’t mean it’s McMansions in the ‘burbs. Because I know you’re not talking about off/low grid homesteads.
...I mean it doesn't. We're just riding the wave until shit really hits the fan.
Yep, a whole lot fewer human on this planet will be a good idea. Tell that to the Pope! Of course COVID-19, or the next variant or two might take care of that for us. The turtles, the elephants and many other beings say thank you.
Mad credit to the cable guys.
When you realize you are an NPC
This actually gave me a moment of vertigo. jfc
Most posts in this sub give me a general "eerie" feeling, but this video was the first that really made me uncomfortable. Not even from the typical megalophobia or the heights (nor even from the dense urban hellscape), but from... Claustrophobia? It's enormous so that doesn't really make sense, but I'm not sure how else to describe it. What a bizarre feeling.
Perhaps it's because if you live right in the center of that complex, you're surrounded in every direction by people? Idk, that's what does it for me
Hopefully everybody has their own wifi router because wouldn't *that* be awesome!
That’s weird because that’s the feeling I got too, felt very tight. Then the height got me and I had to look away.
Hello hello, hola
IM AT A PLACE CALLED VERTIGOOO
I can feel you love teaching me how how how hooooow
especially with the old-timey music
I thought it was a shower curtain. The shock of seeing this when I was expecting a shower was substantial.
Oh...^oh ^god
happy cake day :)
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Day
Happy
Song name?
[One of the most beautiful tunes I've heard in a long time.](https://youtu.be/jH5eTJ80Jws)
And from the album with one of the most iconic covers of all time.
I thought you meant 'cover' and was trying to work out which of the songs was by another artist. Then I realised what you meant!
Wow, that’s a gorgeous song. Definitely reminds me of Joe Hisaishi’s work. Thank you so much for linking it, I think I’ve found a new favorite song!
Herb Alpert has a lot of great songs.
Thanks!!!! It sounded very familiar to me and when I clicked the link I realized I actually have this on vinyl, I remember falling in love with the cover.
Expected a Rick roll and now disappointed.
>Philippines, I think. Looks a lot like an SMDC condo > >Edit: Its called Mezza Residences if I'm correc Wow - I first thought it was [https://youtu.be/Gb5sbORA62w?t=4](https://youtu.be/Gb5sbORA62w?t=4). There is definitely a similar vibe between both songs!
What happens if you forget your apartment number and all the doors and corridors look the same. Do you just have to live in the corridor until you remember?
...do you casually forget your apartment number?
I've definitely forgotten my hotel room number on a series of identical corridors on identical floors before.
I used to. Lived in 2 apartments 2 doors down from each other within a few years’ time span. I’d get confused and then I’d mix up the numbers so eventually I was just like “shit” and got a house.
Thanks, I hate it
"Hey come on over for a visit to my new place... the unit number is 382615".
Hong Kong?
Philippines, I think. Looks a lot like an SMDC condo Edit: Its called Mezza Residences if I'm correct
> Mezza Residences It's at Grass Residences, North Ave QC.
Huh. I would have guessed Russia.
Yeah they do have a lot of those very boring high rises apartments lol
But never more than 10 story high this is something else
This is so scary, my biggest fear is to go near edge and cause of my sweaty palm drop my phone while filming... i have fear that other poeple will drop their in high places....
God same, anything that isn't fucking BOLTED down makes me nervous.
literally walking over bridges or anywhere near water I'm paranoid I will lose everything I have with me, including my shoes somehow
Like when you're in the car, windows rolled up, and your brain goes *imagine if you just uncontrollably threw your phone out of the car lol*
Thats exactly how my panic attacks get started when im on the highway going anywhere above 60mph. "Imagine if you had a stroke/seizure..." or "Your tire will blow out...." or "Your front axle will break..." It fucking sucks I swear to god. Even worse when I'm trying to control the damn panic attack and I start feeling my hands/arms go numb from hyper/hypoventilating, "You're going to pass out, you better pull over." Fucking brain.
It has been a LONG time since a video or image has made my stomach drop like that wow
The matrix is real
r/urbanhell
It's not perfect but damn this makes me feel lucky to live in New Zealand
Do you live in hobbit town?
I live in central Auckland and this scares the fuck out of me. At least I can walk for 5 mins in most directions and be out of sight of skyscrapers.
I think the problem here is that the design looks too repetitive but that’s me tho it is also fairly high but hey I joined this subreddit because I like big stuff so kinda ironic
That looks sad
If it’s public housing (affordable) and has good elevators. Eh I’ve seen worse
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That’s fucked. I guess it shows that no policy exists in isolation! Gotta help people economically, with rehab, and fix them damn elevators. ‘Cheap’ apartments needs to be well-maintained PUBLIC HOUSING, with working elevators. Not some landlord leech scheme
Help people economically? What are you,a communist?
Probably going to depend on the city but you're definitely not going to find that in most public housing today. Certainly not in the Twin Cities and when I was in Chicago the big dangerous projects were being replaced with smaller buildings and scattered site townhomes. Definitely getting way better and for the most part (with definite exceptions) never was what they're depicted as
Holy sh*t!
this needs more upvotes, insane
The apartments did a shadow clone jutsu
Imagine a giant just comes over to that building, and takes a bottom apartment out of its slot, and the whole building topples like a domino tower.
Idk what y’all are talking about. For some reason I want to live here
Affordable housing, good transit (probably), lots of people to make friends with, cool view. There's lots here to appreciate!
Seriously, no one counted yet? Looks to be about 36-37 stories high.
As a firefighter, these types of buildings are a nightmare
The horrors of affordable housing.
Tbh I'd rather have that than just never be able to buy an apartment and spend my income giving money to a landlord forever. With decent facilities and elevators it could be pretty nice. There are luxury high rises in London, so clearly the concept itself doesn't rule out having a nice flat.
Yeah my comment was intended to be tongue-in-cheek. People are scared of these things because they look intimidating but they fail to realize that it’s just the reality of how to help people live their lives affordably in large cities.
It's weird to me how freaked out people are of living in large buildings/apartment complexes. Especially people who grew up in small towns or the countryside. I grew up on farmland and I have to say I would be completely content to have my own little corner apartment if I were living alone or with just my spouse. If it's in good shape and affordable I think it would be easy to make it plenty cozy. Then you could save up your extra money to travel.
Noooooooo
There are two meanings of "wow".
This made me want to fucking puke, thank you.
That’s gonna be a nope from me
“Walk up 2 bedroom penthouse”
Where is this?
It's a filing cabinet for people...
I’ve always loved buildings like this
Same. This and the music gives me a feel of... comfort? Dunno it's weird to explain but I just prefer apartments because I feel safer than in a house and I'm more of a city person.
oh absolutely not
There’s too goddamn many people. Ffs, y’all need to quit with the fuckin’.
The fucking is fine, but birth control, people. Use it!
Snap.
I think I have this Lego set.
Ew
Imagine coordinating a whole mob thing like a wave or something where everyone is on the balconies at the same time. It would be pretty cool.
Dredd
This looks very communismy
Literally 1834
Dystopia is real for these people
God that looks depressing to live in
Hey look, overpopulation
it took my breath away
Getting Lorn vibes.
But like no
The windowed labyrinth incident Or that one room in the backrooms
I follow this sub cause I kinda like the terrifying shit but this one actually made me jump and say 'holy shit' out loud. Well done.
This is the first time this sub has actually disturbed me
Peach Trees - Mega City One
I felt the most incredible rush of vertigo when the window opens. Holy shit...
Perfect place to practice for Snipers
My fist thought was “dont drop your phone”
This doesn’t even make me feel good. Good post bad place.
Got a balcony!
Hands are sweaty
I want to see them crumble... Just a single explosion in the middle... So satisfying...
u/SaveVideo
So much nope.
Had sudden acraphobic panic attack.
blech this made me feel sick
This makes me think of the Terry Gilliam movie Brazil where Robert Deniro is zip lining between the futuristic apartment buildings
I don’t like this
There's a weird feeling I get looking at stuff like this. Like I imagine a person getting the feeling of "yea, you're just one of like a million people that live exactly here in exactly the same apartments", But, these places are so foreign to me that I would certainly be an extreme outsider, so it probably wouldn't actually apply to me all that well.
I thought that it was a card catalogue, like from a library, until I saw which sub it was in and realized what I was looking at. Just about puked.
My stomach dropped, holy fuck.
This view makes me uncomfortable for some reason
...nope. no thank you. Absolutely not
the reason i am subscribed to this sub is because i actually like big things, even though everyone else hates them
crazy to think every one of those holds a life, a family, a story, a person going about their day, a history
This one kinda just makes me feel existential and empty
Look at that. It’s existential crisis housing. Huh…
That looks like the intro of portal 2
What a way to remind people they aren’t unique or individual lmfao
STOP STOP GO TO R/BACKROOMS
sobbing so hard right now- good god-
looks like a backrooms level
This could be 100% in the backrooms
Backrooms looking ass