buddy, then it would be Mongolia Mongolia may be sweet if that's your thing--certainly a long history of portable real estate--but it is obviously not "valuable" in the sense we normally use for real estate (the most valuable parts are, surprise, the cities)
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Why is a city valuable Because it's got infrastructure and people If all of those things were mobile, its value would not be tied to it's location
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Replying to @frogstoyevsky @LueYee and
why did people go there and not somewhere else why did infrastructure get built there and not somewhere else you're not thinking about this question as seriously as you should be: why ARE cities valuable?
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Replying to @380kmh @frogstoyevsky and
access to water ways prior to the advent of stage coach and rail
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Replying to @GolfNorman @380kmh and
Even after, waterways have been invaluable.
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every major city is built on a harbor or navigable river
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Replying to @GolfNorman @LueYee and
are you even fucking trying right now https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing
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Replying to @380kmh @GolfNorman and
hmm interestingpic.twitter.com/gbg3CKPC2W
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Replying to @JesseLucasSaga @GolfNorman and
wow three rivers which only fell within "Beijing municipality" when the CCP redefined that area to encompass some 6,400 square miles of land, largely rural and well outside the historic confines of the city
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Replying to @380kmh @GolfNorman and
and the millennia-old canal, don't forget the canal that is older than Saxon England
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Beijing was 1000 years old before the first bits of that canal got built--they didn't exactly build it on spec, after all
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Replying to @380kmh @GolfNorman and
eh, I'm not too invested in that. I'll grant you dry Beijing
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