Abandoned villas: Turkey’s luxury ghost town
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Amid a real estate crisis in Turkey, nearly 1,000 construction companies have gone bankrupt in less than a year. Before the start of the economic downturn, millions of dollars had been pumped into luxury housing projects across the country. In the western Anatolia region lies a stark symbol of this crisis: a ghost town with hundreds of abandoned Renaissance-style villas. Our colleagues from France 2 report, with FRANCE 24's Maud Jullien.
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I like the idea of having a town where the houses look like castles, but did they really need to make them all the same? The lack of variety just makes the landscape look more disturbing.
@Faragar, you’re right it’s absolutely insane.
Then the stupid company who built these on high leverage are wondering why no one wanted to buy there and why they went bankrupt lol
Yes, almost nightmarish.
Imagine being drunk and trying to find your house
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@Lynn Ly I don’t. Never been in Middle-East, in Turkey only one time.
Not all middle Eastern are Muslims and my middle – Eastern friends don’t want to be labelled as muslims and that’s my whole point. They are middle Eastern and Turkish not muslims and good for them for not identify with any religious cult. Stop making it look like religion is same as nativeness or race, its not.
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Lesson no.1 in city planning: If the houses are made the same in a row, either you paint them in different colors or you make them in different sizes to kill the monotony.
Which is what Singapore did with its public housing (housing ~85% of the population); they have pretty standardised designs (to reduce cost) but in addition each apartment building (or ‘block’ as we call it) is given an identifying number (roughly indicating which neighbourhood the block is within each town) that’s displayed on the building’s exterior as well as in it’s lift lobby.
Like towns do in Germany!
@Simon Phoenix so, there is no other way but destroy the land with all its habitat to make profit while selling ugly and unfunctional so called luxury houses? (In this case they couldn’t even sell them) If necessary, i would prefer living in the forrest rather than living among the fools like you.
@Hatice you could always just go live in the forest. No one is stopping you
Try not bother to explain guys, they imitate and most of the time it sells, and while they do it they destroy the most valuable parts of the land. I hope forest and wilderness take back the land.
I can sort of imagine an archaeologist digging this up in a 1000 years and going WTF?
Somebody said one day archaeologists will dig up Disney land and think it was some mouse worshipping civilization 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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“A man’s home is his castle.”
“Yes, but … which one?”
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What’s the difference from new suburbs!
The one with the blue roof 😭
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The reason why you would want a Castle is because it’s unique. When you are surrounded by 400 similar properties it just doesn’t have any appeal no matter the grass and the lakes.
Exactly, how are you supposed to be a one upper if your neighbors all own the same things.
It’s like a really expensive trailer park lol
Yeah…like what were they thinking creating this mess???
@The Great Fomo 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂
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delivery guy: “can you tell me how your house looks like?”
Me: “oh its a white little looking castle, hard to miss”
Delivery guy gets to the place: “wtf”
That sounds like it would be a scene on The Simpsons.
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Poor Uber eats guy ; he needs to finish his college assignment to turn it in the next day
Those are some strict HOA rules. Everything must be the same.
Ya’ll saying this is like American suburbs are overexaggarating your point… Yes there is uniformity in American suburbs, no they do not stack house 10 meters from each other that look exactly the same, with no yard, no nothing. So NO, this does NOT look like American suburbs.
@TheCourtlyAlchemist Clearly, you’ve never heard of Levittowns. It’s a big part of post-WWII history, and you don’t even know it about your own country.
@notquality lmao plz do tell where in America is a place like this
@Boo Strachan Where? Not where I live.
@Johnathan T Levittowns were suburban starter homes not identical luxury castles squished into the smallest space possible in the middle of nowhere.
“Our village is inspired by the Windows copy paste feature.”
Your comment deserves infinite like😂
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I live in the Turkey and I didn’t know that these such a things exist.
@Darwin iyi saçmalamışsın. Türkiyede haber oldu.
Media censorship
lmao öyle iki tane sitenin yanında oturuyorum
@Berke Gnş Agree 🙂
That’s your lack of knowledge. It’s too famous. Not very common thing in today’s world building so many chetaus and leave them empty.
Some people don’t have home to live and some home doesn’t have people to live. What a world we are living in !
america has more empty apartments than homeless people iirc
What a world we live in
lol
Man this is just sad. All that forest cut down just for everything to be abandoned.
Hi from Turkey. That is very sad and houses are awful.
Reminds me of the Forest City mixed-use property development along Malaysia’ southern coastline, which also involved reclaiming ~12-16km^2 of land, & originally offered Malaysian PR to buyers, but former PM Mahathir Mohammad cancelled that offer when he took power in 2018 after the development was already underway, causing sales there to drop sharply. Mahathir is less China-friendly than his predecessor, & many of the buyers came from China, with the Forest City being developed by a Chinese developer called Country Garden in a JV with a company owned by the king of Johor, the Malaysian state where the development is in (that might also further increase the animosity that Mahathir already had against Malaysia’s monarchs I think). There’s a B1M video about it saying how the land reclamation saves on the need to cut down trees in Malaysia’s forests, but on the other hand it can pollute the Strait of Johor (some fishermen have expressed concern I think about their catch being reduced, while neighbouring Singapore is also concerned that the reclamation will push the sea border along that strait, between both countries, closer to Singapore).
The plan is for Forest City to eventually home ~700,000 residents (just >10% of Johor’s current population I think, & also equal to a higher percentage of Singapore’s population too) & help push Johor (more specifically it’s Iskandar development region, the closest parts of the state to neighbouring Singapore) to become to Singapore more like what Shenzhen is like to HK, but I forsee there might be a challenge posed due to the smaller co-ordination of policies between Singapore & Johor as compared to HK & Shenzhen (because the former are 2 separate sovereign entities that are also economically competing against each other, while the latter are both co-ordinated under the central government in Beijing I believe). I recall a selling point of Forest City was how it’s only 10-15min from downtown Singapore (by car, according to Google Maps, but wait, that excludes the time spent queuing at the border crossing – 1h+ during peak hour I think, & that’s now mostly closed due to CoViD-19), while the cost of living in Malaysia (where Forest City is in) is lower than Singapore (but it’s rising also). Think the Singapore government would logically have little incentive then to ease the congestion & queues at its border crossings with Malaysia, as it’d then become more convenient for people to travel from Singapore to Malaysia to spend on goods & services, & remit their salaries from their careers in Singapore (where wages are higher) to their families living in Malaysian properties, causing more outflows from Singapore’s economy.
Australia is doing the same and killing the wildlife off while they’re at it.
I really appreciate Turks ppl..they are good kind of ppl…i love them 🥰💕
It’s crazy they made everything look exactly the same . No imagination at all!
hey man it costs to pay a lot of designers. Here you just pay one and the copy-paste
Not to mention they are ugly as f
It’s greed!
I’m nearly homeless now from not being able to pay rent. Watching this hurt a different feel
I hope things change.. it’s going to get better, hang on there
The houses aren’t even targeted towards locals, just rich foreigners. Idk if homelessness is a major issue in that town, but if it is, man that’s just sad.
I am so sorry to hear that. I hope and pray things turn around for you soon. No one should be homeless. No one. Do you have any family?
“At first glance, it could be mistaken for an amusement park”
Yikes.. no. Not at all..
Maybe if you hate amusement parks
YIKES 😭😭😭😭😭😧😧😧😦😦😦😱😱😱😱
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Maybe it’s ‘Lockdownworld”?
With the direction of disney, their parks COULD look like this soon.
If nobody’s willing to live there, please give one of those buildings to me😁
That’ll change according to where you’Re from..
So I have very vivid dreams and I dreamt of a similar city as a kid. I dreamt I was lost and it was night time and all the houses looked like this. I found this video trying to find out if it existed and voila. It’s creepy when you dream places you’ve never seen and they actually exist.
I dreamt real mexican food didn’t give me diarrhea and then I woke up. What a mess!
When you have only one house model in your strategy game and you want to build a residential area:
Yes, extremely unappealing. A major waste of resources too.
@Sòlas Luna yes, I was talking about these houses haha, built with bad quality materials
@Rocio Hernandez True! This reminded me so much of the Infonavit homes too. 👍😁👍
Lol, they look better than the ones in Mexico but they build same houses like this
This looks like a five years old’s “only castles city” in The Sims.