the other reason foreigners consistently get goggle-eyed over East Asia is because they go to the nicest and most modern bits, whereas at home they've probably been to, like, your average city. i was very blessed by getting to spend my first year in China in Shijiazhuang.
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I can't speak for other places, but there was a similar sense of stuff "working by default" in Hong Kong, despite a different culture. Care was put into maintaining a shared world, and no one wantonly destroyed it, which made the protest-related property damage later so shocking
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ironically I think in Japan this is in part a product of the future *failing*. Japanese construction in the 1980s and 1990s had tons of horror stories of a kind you'd expect in a bubble; since 1996 there's been a certain 'let's just get this thing we have working well' spirit
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(Kerr's DOGS AND DEMONS is very good on 1990s construction, which was full of roads to nowhere and natural devastation.)
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