No worries, it’s mellow here. Pretty much the same shit. Walked around today and met some rad folks and in true tourist style, photographed buildings. Construction, construction, and more construction. It’s baffling. Went kinda near The Burj Dubai which is a fucking neckbreaker of a building - 159 floors completed as of now, but they have 2 cranes perched at the top just to make sure that if another building sneaks past them in height, they can keep building higher towards where God lives. Imagine the World Trade Center in NYC - okay, so those were 110 floors. Imagine another 49 more floors higher, with the option of going higher - one guy told me that they’ll end around 175 floors but will have a massive antenna structure to boost it’s height. But Burj Dubai has some healthy competition - a building in Kuwait is going for 200+ floors. And another building in Bahrain is pushing for over 200 as well. The Burj Dubai is a beastly structure which will hold nine hotels, a handful of the top restaurants, a lake, commercial offices, shopping, and 30,000 homes for the fanciest of the fancy. A big fuck you to even the wealthy. Speaking of wealthy, I talked to a bunch of underpaid construction workers - who some get $150 a week. For work, some put up signs, some dig holes, some load steel on/off of trucks - most of them on their lunch breaks. Most of these people were Indian and Bangladeshi, and Iranian but some wouldn’t tell me. Or they would just say that they “came from India” even though they said they weren’t Indian. Not sure why that was what they told me…
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