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Hong Kong is going to build 12,000 apartments on a golf course. Rich people mad.

Members pay an entrance fee of about HK$400,000 (S$68,000) and some have been vocal in their opposition to the redevelopment plan, citing ecological, commercial and social reasons to make their case.

Nobody working class is missing out on their golf because of this.

Beijing directly exhorted local officials to fix the problems in the aftermath of the mass protests that rocked the city in 2019, demanding that Hong Kong get rid of so-called cage homes or subdivided apartments by 2049.

Based Beijing.

The decision to build on the golf course also reflects how old business elites in Hong Kong are losing political sway as more staunchly pro-Beijing loyalists gain ground.

When Beijing’s top official for the city visited it in April, he did not meet the real estate developers association, which represents some of the richest families, raising questions over whether the interests of the wealthy clans are even a major concern to the top leadership.

Mr Zeman argued that shrinking the golf course hits at the heart of the way business is done in the city. “A lot of deals are done on the golf course all over the world for business people,” he said.

Fuck off back to your offices and make your deals there you fucking ghouls.

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  • This article had us fucking rolling, it reads like a joke news story in a video game. These people are malding so much over their precious golf that they're stumbling over each other to embarrass themselves about it.

  • Here's the course, by the way. It's about a mile long. It has three 18-hole courses.

    It should be noted that this isn't in the city of Hong Kong, it's in the relatively less developed north end of the Special Administrative Region, just south of Shenzhen. About a fifth of the course is going to be repossessed, I don't know whether that's of the whole thing or just one of the courses.

  • Fucking excuse me? Is that the "entrance fee" or a lifetime membership? They pay how much to whack a ball around with a stick?

    Think of how many people they could help with that money, how many poor and suffering people in the wardrobe sized apartments next to the golf course struggling to survive.

    The worst part about this is that these fuckers won't be on the golf course when it gets bulldozed.

    • It has to be a membership fee or something that amount of money is just unbelievable as an entrance fee.

      That entrance fee is more than my bloody house.

  • Golf and it's consequences have been disastrous for the human race.

    ...but jokes aside fuck golf!!!! I will never understand the appeal of that "sport". My grandparents used to watch it on TV religiously and It blows my mind.

  • Mr Li Ning, the son-in-law of Hong Kong’s fourth-richest person Lee Shau Kee, attended one such event in June to oppose the plan on the grounds that it would harm the development of golf in Hong Kong, according to local media.

    bourgeois spawn cares about the real oppressed minority (golf players).

  • Hong Kong's real estate situation is unique, to be sure, but I really hope I start seeing more of this kind of thing elsewhere.

    It's not that I actually want to see more buildings everywhere. But there are tons of areas with a constant housing crisis. The rich have made sure that policies are in place where they can continue to sit on properties and keep rents high indefinitely while the majority suffer. Maybe new development needing to encroach on their precious rich people spaces could make a difference.

    ....lol probably not.

  • Meanwhile Denmark is building a new island for the rich and the speculants. It's gonna fuck everything up and there's no reason to do it. They need to build a new road to support all the trucks delivering polluted dirth thats to be dumped into the ocean. This isdespite everybody being against it AND it being illegal. We just got cod back into the baltic

    I wanna move to Beijing.

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