Found: The City Where Walking is Set to 'Nightmare Difficulty'.
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You're dodging e-bikes and trying to avoid stepping in spit, all while breathing in secondhand smoke.
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Hahahaha, how did you know? I almost stepped in spit from the person in front of me!
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It's hopeless. The management is just awful, a total 'let it rot' approach. Pedestrians have completely lost their right-of-way.
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How can you call it 'letting it rot'? They're clearly very proactive – busy ticketing cars that aren't driving on the sidewalk every day!
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We've been complaining about this for ages, but nobody takes charge, and nobody cares.
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It's truly outrageous. The sidewalks are already so narrow, and then they're crammed with all those shared bikes and e-bikes. The tiny path left has to accommodate more bikes and e-bikes coming from both directions. It's incredibly tough for pedestrians! Why not just build more pedestrian bridges and give people a proper way to walk? I even saw a comment elsewhere saying pedestrians are just 'idle people with nothing better to do.' I'm utterly speechless.
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You might as well just get an e-bike and join the chaos. Shenzhen isn't designed for walking, and they certainly don't encourage it.
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In my two years in Shenzhen, I've seen more than twice the number of e-bikes than I saw in my hometown over 20 years combined.
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If you want to be treated like a human being in Shenzhen, the standards are ridiculously high, you know.
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The actual hierarchy is: e-bikes/scooters > cars = pedestrians
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Near my subway station, they even removed the green space between two trees specifically for e-bikes and scooters to park, but they still park haphazardly everywhere.
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I really miss those leisurely strolls from my childhood... Now, walking almost gives me PTSD. Every time I turn a corner, I have to look back repeatedly to check for speeding e-bikes. That feeling when there's an e-bike zooming at you from the front, and another one behind you honking to rush you along... it's a uniquely awful thrill.
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You mean electric scooters/e-bikes, right? Shenzhen hardly has any actual motorcycles.