For anyone who wants a better picture of what living in Chongqing is like, this man shows his commute to work, which involves almost nonstop downhill travel. He goes into the subway station for a while to take several kilometers of downhill escalators, but never actually takes a train: https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1hhpubb/...
There are some disorienting videos online from this city where the person is walking around on what looks like the ground floor only to come to an edge that reveals it is 20 floors off the actual ground.
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Quite hot in summer, but it is also where I have had what was quite possibly the tastiest noodles in my life.
I wouldn't want to live in the appartment where the metro pass just nearby, exotic OK, but very noisy!