I have a mongolian friend, he said it was a choice between a dystopian city or the vast empty nature. I guess if you like nature it could be good but the density is sooooo low there are places where you wont see civilization for hundreds of kilometers.
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rustyfish@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
I have lived in all five of these countries and I can confirm, it’s all true. Especially china. It just sucks cock.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
There are places like that in the usa. It’s about everywhere actually.
BigBananaDealer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
driving through iowa for hours is honestly probably more dangerous than driving drunk. you get so bored you just fall asleep at the wheel because there is NOTHING but road
Telodzrum@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Imagine thinking the US is just Bakersfield.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I meant the lack of civilization ^^
iocase@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I watched a heartwarming short of a guy getting stopped by the police in Mongolia for using a wind sail powered horizontal bike thingy.
2 locals also showed up on a moped
Top comment:
“It’s nice to see all 5 people Mongolia to meet up and see how OP’s bike works”
borokov@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oulan-Bator looks like your first SimCity game when you had 10yo and just put random coal plant there and there.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Kinda like Shadowrun.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
The winters are super hardcore though. I forget numbers, but it gets really really cold, worse than the upper midwest of the US and central canada in temperature, although I think they get less snow than many of us.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Yeah i live in sweden and every time i complain about the weather he just shows me ulaanbaatar and its either like -35c during winter or +35c during summer
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
How extreme is it for you? Because it gets -30°C in the winter here, and 30°C in the summer here, in my part of Canada.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Damn I better get a ticket to china then
iocase@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
sucks cock
🥵🥵 how much does it? 🥵🥵
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Everyone sucks, no one gets sucked
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m ethnically Chinese but never been there, well only the airport … but why’s it suck so much?
I know people that wanna go back due to cost of living but I heard housing isn’t cheap neither (depending on where you live perhaps?)
almost_genocide@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It doesn’t.
Housing is extremely affordable compared to here in the U.S. So is food, transportation and healthcare.
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m definitely going to visit next year … just putting away money for now. I’ll see if I can add Kunming to the list, thanks!
I can’t wait to eat more food. My Cantonese is “okay” but my Mandarin is garbage … I’m gonna spend the next year or so watching dramas and stuff to catch up!
almost_genocide@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Remember, if you order the mushroom hot pot you have to wait a bit before eating it. Maybe you already know this but we didn’t and gave our server a heart attack. 😆 Fortunately we had only taken a couple bites so neither of us experienced ill effects.
plutopos@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
How did you end up seeing the airport and only the airport?
lobut@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
lol I was on my way to Vietnam … only had a 3 hour layover and didn’t plan on leaving the airport.
BeUnique@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I have read this comment therefore I also can confirm that everything stated is 100% facts.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wait, Mongolia will think I’m cool because I’m 300 lbs? Dope.
I’m going to head there rn and fuckong lift the front end of some trucks.
Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Cool story
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That’s interesting, what was Mongolia like and were you there for specific work reasons or just because you liked moving around?
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
A person lying on the internet…who could have foreseen this?
I’ve been to most of these countries, they are all very nice. But like with anywhere it kinda depends on when and where you are, and you typically won’t get a real sense of the place unless you have a lot of time to travel.
The country side of Mongolia is beautiful in the warm season, I hear it’s pretty barren and freezing when it’s cold. About 50% of the population lives in Ulaanbaatar and it has a pretty bad issue with air pollution. It was very smoggy when I visited, and I hear it gets a lot worse in the winter season when it regularly has some of the worst air pollution in the world.
rustyfish@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
The only liar I see is you. Go away.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
The only way you lived in North Korea and South Korea is if you defected, in which case you wouldn’t have also gone to China and Mongolia. My guess is that you’re just a racist European.
teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They heat with coal stoves, their cities are like 18th century london.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Yeah, a lot of wood and coal fires for heating and cooling. Probably wouldn’t be as much of an issue, but the city is nestled in a big valley that blocks the city from the wind so the smog doesn’t really have anywhere to dissipate.
its_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Either they started with North Korea and escaped or they ended their tour with NK and they’re still there.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
/> Checks instance /> It’s piefed, not hexbear or Lemmy.ML
It’s the first one
mech@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Pretty sure they don’t let tourists into North Korea when they already have a South Korean stamp in their passport.
rustyfish@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
🤫
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why would someone do that? go on the internet and tell lies?
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not sure if you’re serious or not but the reason for it is that it can be pretty fun at times
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I fucked up the quote
knowyourmeme.com/…/just-go-on-the-internet-and-te…
Angryhumanoid@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago
Y’all are stupid, the answer is so obvious: he’s Kim Jong Un!
bus_factor@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You can visit North Korea. They assign a guy to you to make sure you only see the approved stuff.