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  • China has a different flavor? 🤷‍♂️

    ?

    Think maybe as humans we just forgot how to build houses or something.

    There’s some legitimate issues (e.g. investors buying up housing and trying to squeeze out as much short-term profit as possible, increasing prices for raw materials), but the main issue seems to be that most governments refuse to take effective measures for whatever reason. IDK, maybe they’re just all strapped for cash after the recent pandemic.



  • From my experience in Germany, that’s not really true. Freight trains regularly run on the same tracks and through the same train stations as passenger trains (of course they don’t actually stop at passenger train stations). There’s some dedicated tracks of course, especially to and from freight stations, but I AFAIK that’s not the majority of tracks they’re running on.

    Could be separate tracks in countries that actually have well-run train networks, though.