During my visits to Shanghai I stay in a hotel about 30 minutes from downtown. This area was all rice paddies 10 years ago. Now is it a massive "free-trade" and shipping center. The view from my hotel gives you some idea of how the average metropolitan Chinese family lives. There are hundreds and hundreds of these apartment buildings in every direction. Many are 15-20 stories high. The facades differ but inside they are very similar. Most are well under 1000 sq. ft. per apartment. Each one the same.
In case you were wondering why so many apartments...China has the same land area as the USA but about 4 times as many people.
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