I was talking to a Romanian friend about commie apartments and new residential apartments, long story short, the new residential apartments have fewer square metres, the walls are thinner (you can hear indirect neighbours, so not just your direct neighbour that has a passion for carpentry at 3 in the night) and they're more expensive, but hey, at least you don't live in a communist building amirite
"Ah so glad to not live in those stalinkas anymore, now if only I could afford to rent the whole two rooms instead of having to share with three randos"
Am Romanian and can confirm lmfao
A lot of the "commieblocs" in my area were built after the collapse, before that people here just tended to have their own house and shit
What could be more depressing than capitalist city planning?
This camera angle totally obscures the open space that exists. Look at those buildings, they're narrow and spaced out quite a bit.
Also important to note that this is one of the most expensive parts of Seoul. You could grab a shot of Stuy Town in lower Manhattan and make the same kind of post.
It also looks like it was taken in winter bc you can see a couple trees with no leaves
2,000,000 Korean won is around $2,000 USD (slightly less I think) so it's hard to imagine it not being in USD.
Good rule of thumb for quick approximate mental conversions:
1 USD
== 100 Japanese yen
== 1000 Korean won
I think point is that nothing that ugly and depressing should cost so much
Really nice.
As always public housing and housing in general is only viable and "pretty" if the gov makes maintenance/services/etc. Unlike projects were the gov makes some apartement blocks and then refuses to do anything to make the area livable.
That housing block doesn't look especially "communist" to me. It wouldn't look out of place in western Europe.
In communist North Korea people live in depressing grey concrete blocks
