yes especially if youre paying for the one of the most expensive rents in the world and your salary is in minimum or below minimum wage. that would be awesome! 😂
What I don't understand when seeing these old abandoned places, is why there is still stuff left there? I understand why places like Chernobyl would still have stuff everywhere, since those people had no time to get out, but these people moved out. Like, don't you take all your stuff with you when you move? There's even a photo of someone's ancestor left there!
I was thinking the exact same thing while watching the video. He even says people slowly started to leave but then there's stuff still left around the houses
yogurtpo3 I feel the same too, even the bed with pillow and blanket, chairs, desks, calendars, everything was left like a sudden haunting. However, it could be called a rush since people left this place for just a few years (1997-2003), I know a place need to take 10 years or 20 years to loosen its sense and up to 50 years to clear the city like this. Back to the time, there are tons of changes, pressure from eviction and smuggling, should be a force to fled them all.
It says land dispute in the video and we all know how worth land is in hong kong.. if they can do smth about it, they would have done it long ago to earn profit. Its probably some very serious problems
This is just a part of Ma Wan Island, there’s a private estate and a tourist attraction on the other side of the Island, with many residents enough support several shuttle bus routes and even ferries to Central.
your statement doesn't make any sense. There is a land dispute and people were forcefully evicted hence no one living there. Otherwise as much as I feel for the people living in caged homes don't you think the people who once lived here has priority in moving back?
Gov't should enact a law. All parties have to settle land disputes within 10 years, if not....confiscate for public housing. Why drag this long for what?
Great idea. Move those people away from their place of work, put them on an island far away from any job opportunities with limited public transport access. Amazing idea...
i like how the calendar on the wall shows Jan 1996, which means the village has been starting to vacant since 1996. But the video says the villagers are leaving since 1997 but not 1996, so subtley implies everything bad or evil starts since after the handover of HK to China in 1997
2:20 hit me hard seeing someone's altar portrait abandoned with an old dusty incense bowl. Can't imagine my grandparent's altar being abandoned and unlit for decades.
Just staring at the houses or the road of this forsaken village gives me a nostalgic feeling, since my hometown was almost identical to the village but will a few differences. Me and my ma moved to the north of my country after cutting off our businesses in my hometown, wish i could go back but sadly there's nothing to expect there except my now gone friends and run down house.
That's so sad residents evicted from the only home some of them had ever known. Displaced by the effects of greed, so luxury estates could be built. The only outcome is that of a modern day ghost town. So there was no winner in this game. Only a lesson to be learned. That greed never pays. It is better to have peace of mind than great wealth
longchicken For such a brave guy, don't you think "longchicken" is not quite appropriate? May I suggest "strongeagle", "nightowl", "bravehawk", "fearlessnightingale". Etc. Anyway, ghosts just want to be left alone.
Yes yes one day me and my mom decided to go hiking near the ghost town, and then we decided to explore the ghost town, it was cool experience and some people still lives there actually well not many
Blue Food They were forcefully evicted from their homes, I’m pretty sure, for the ones who left voluntarily, they thought they could earn more money in the city, where everything’s price is inflated thousands of times.
Might be because all started migrating to areas with more facilities and the ones who were left here had no option but to leave this town as well due to consequences.
I've watched a lot of videos of similar places in the old Soviet states recently, and I always feel like I would like to go and build these places up again, restart the villages so to say. Maybe make a business out of it.
They literally built a new village for these villagers a walkable distance away as long as high rises. But I guess that wouldn’t make a great story for SCMP?
I’m literally living in Ma wan’s buildings, (not the village tho, in the buildings) and I always goes to the village, it’s abandoned but I feel safe and happy there, it’s near a small beach and the wind breezes makes me very comfy, there are little forests there too, I really like there
Some of them were never even inhabited to begin with. Like the fake houses in London, just a facade, but behind the tall towers and massive shopping malls there’s no one there. No wonder regional development has fallen behind so dramatically without anyone noticing-with all that infrastructure on paper it looks perfect. They probably wouldn’t go into that much detail though XD
Even though I am still learning Cantonese, I try and not look at the subtitles just to see if I can understand what they're saying lol and most of the time I do 😂
Kokichi Ouma They probably got granted access from the government or authorities or they were allowed t o do so because they were filming a documentary.
when i saw the thumbnail i was going to make a hanako joke but i watched the video. it’s really saddening. they should rebuild this town so they don’t waste its potential to be a future residential area.
These places r still beautiful but it's a loss for people who leave this beautiful place n lived in small boxes in the city where u cant find a word n that is "space"😔
3 days ago I dreamt of this place!!!!!!!!! Like the exact same I was there with my 2 friends and there was a flood and every thing was floating away and we heard a weird noise and saw something and a weird figure stole my friends and then I woke up Coincidence that I found this video today
Their city planning needs to do more work. So many lands wasted on uninhabited islands yet the city is overcrowded. People hv to squeeze on tiny flats. However base on current situation, i doubt there will be improvement over the next decades.
There's no reason for people to leave such a beautiful place , but there's a chance for Hollywood to take movies here and people start to come back here as film city.
they should renovate this, create and start a new community and give it to the poor people in hongkong since some of them are living small houses.
maki pizon small houses are better than living in the streets.
yes especially if youre paying for the one of the most expensive rents in the world and your salary is in minimum or below minimum wage. that would be awesome! 😂
I mean they live in cages
Tara Stanojevic Yea if that were true it would be funny
@@induelist4745 its true
perfect location for a horror movie.
Yuppp
Hong Kong needs to hit me up. I got perfect horror movie idea’s!
Resident evil??
Stranger things asian version?
Should have made it the battleground area
"Life was happier back then" so true😔
@@asparagusgooey4791 uh
Suga Yoongles the channel has bts stuff ;-;
Suga Yoongles thats why I said army
@@parkjihoon_0314 hi army!!💜💜💜💜
@@asparagusgooey4791 there's only one army RED ARMY *USSR ANTHEM PLAYS*
What I don't understand when seeing these old abandoned places, is why there is still stuff left there? I understand why places like Chernobyl would still have stuff everywhere, since those people had no time to get out, but these people moved out. Like, don't you take all your stuff with you when you move? There's even a photo of someone's ancestor left there!
It was actually a forced eviction initiated by the land mafia!
I was thinking the exact same thing while watching the video. He even says people slowly started to leave but then there's stuff still left around the houses
Because bringing things along is costly. People dont need them anymore.
yogurtpo3 I feel the same too, even the bed with pillow and blanket, chairs, desks, calendars, everything was left like a sudden haunting. However, it could be called a rush since people left this place for just a few years (1997-2003), I know a place need to take 10 years or 20 years to loosen its sense and up to 50 years to clear the city like this. Back to the time, there are tons of changes, pressure from eviction and smuggling, should be a force to fled them all.
"We'll be back". So they said. So they thought. So they did. It's a ghost town now. Beautiful guitar work too.
When I was young my dad used to bring me and my sister to the beach of Ma Wan, after almost 30 years, everything have changed
only the avatar
Wow
I'll never go there, i don't even know if i'll go to the USA
That’s sad
That's lot of real estate. Can they destroy and rebuild this place?
I see you everywhere-
@@Wawiluvkuromii ikr! I see ray mak commenting under every one of these videos lol
i kinda like your youtube recommendation
WHAT?! u subscribe to them also?!
WHY R U EVERYWHERE
The HK government with their huge resources must rebuild/ develop the island, what a waste.
Protesters too busy stopping trains and beefing them.
this land isn't owned by the government though by the sound of things so they couldn't
It says land dispute in the video and we all know how worth land is in hong kong.. if they can do smth about it, they would have done it long ago to earn profit. Its probably some very serious problems
This is just a part of Ma Wan Island, there’s a private estate and a tourist attraction on the other side of the Island, with many residents enough support several shuttle bus routes and even ferries to Central.
Well instead of doing that, the govt decided to build a man made island which could spend all the reserves, genius plan isnt it?
You got a whole town empty yet you have people living in cages still in Hong Kong. 🤷♂️🤦♂️smh
EDIT: 😂
U saying that is the equivalent to saying homeless people should just buy a house
your statement doesn't make any sense. There is a land dispute and people were forcefully evicted hence no one living there. Otherwise as much as I feel for the people living in caged homes don't you think the people who once lived here has priority in moving back?
Because everything is private
Gov't should enact a law. All parties have to settle land disputes within 10 years, if not....confiscate for public housing. Why drag this long for what?
Great idea. Move those people away from their place of work, put them on an island far away from any job opportunities with limited public transport access. Amazing idea...
i like how the calendar on the wall shows Jan 1996, which means the village has been starting to vacant since 1996. But the video says the villagers are leaving since 1997 but not 1996, so subtley implies everything bad or evil starts since after the handover of HK to China in 1997
There’s actually land available for housing in Hong Kong but the government intentionally doesn’t develop which fuels the rental prices
Yep and people still living in cages
@The Oasis by restricting supply of land it forces developers to compete on price and jacks it up, meaning more revenue for the government.
And they use "keep green land for protecting the environment" as an excuse
What was not said here was the government housing project was obstracted by opposition parties. Otherwise, there should be 85000 units built yearly.
Yong Tang; Hongki idiots being used by their so called pro-democracy lawmakers!
2:20 hit me hard seeing someone's altar portrait abandoned with an old dusty incense bowl. Can't imagine my grandparent's altar being abandoned and unlit for decades.
Just staring at the houses or the road of this forsaken village gives me a nostalgic feeling, since my hometown was almost identical to the village but will a few differences.
Me and my ma moved to the north of my country after cutting off our businesses in my hometown, wish i could go back but sadly there's nothing to expect there except my now gone friends and run down house.
Life was happier back then
True
Mhm
That's so sad residents evicted from the only home some of them had ever known.
Displaced by the effects of greed, so luxury estates could be built. The only outcome is that of a modern day ghost town. So there was no winner in this game.
Only a lesson to be learned.
That greed never pays. It is better to have peace of mind than great wealth
Yeah, greed benefits no one at all. Even the greedy person......
Love your last statement 👍
True
Shout out to the camera man
Yea
*Housing Crisis* and *Ghost Town* exist on the same land. How ironic.
This is very expensive real estate
Hi ray mak
Hi ray mak
Ray Mak
We see you everywhere
5th time seeing
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I think you like to comment on every video you watch....
Imagine this place during the night...
Challenge accepted
longchicken
For such a brave guy, don't you think "longchicken" is not quite appropriate? May I suggest "strongeagle", "nightowl", "bravehawk", "fearlessnightingale". Etc.
Anyway, ghosts just want to be left alone.
serene x2
@@cb250nighthawk3 Bigcock
You will prolly hear moans
0:26 looks like a great opening to a horror game
Mhm
That's not even scary...
@@anushkaaaradhaydixit4459 it's kind of scary but I respect your opinion
@@NoobMolly. thanks....
@@NoobMolly. I respect your opinion too.... It depends on every individual...
Am I the only one loves old stuff or abandoned places? Things?
its britneybyotch Same, I’m actually going to study to become an archeologist!
@@arinyugrass wow cool
just you.
I feel sad when old stuff the memories that I did'nt know that happend
Of course there would be ghosts already since the town was left for years ago
Yes yes one day me and my mom decided to go hiking near the ghost town, and then we decided to explore the ghost town, it was cool experience and some people still lives there actually well not many
Perfect place for public housing since HK got that problem with housing people to REAL houses, not cages or small closets.
*The perfect location for a horror movie*
The question is: What made all these people get out of such a big area...?
Blue Food They were forcefully evicted from their homes, I’m pretty sure, for the ones who left voluntarily, they thought they could earn more money in the city, where everything’s price is inflated thousands of times.
@@terrylap6132 : A situation like that, can create so much bad feelings in society... and mistrust, and fear as well....
Might be because all started migrating to areas with more facilities and the ones who were left here had no option but to leave this town as well due to consequences.
I've watched a lot of videos of similar places in the old Soviet states recently, and I always feel like I would like to go and build these places up again, restart the villages so to say. Maybe make a business out of it.
You have a big ambition. Well, who knows..may you be succeeded. 😃
Actually i was thinking along the same lines as you...trust me there are opportunities ....just need to look..
@@Zsharma1 Let's work together! Wanna start in the old Soviet states or Asia? :D
Imagine staying for the night and hearing a party going on
They literally built a new village for these villagers a walkable distance away as long as high rises. But I guess that wouldn’t make a great story for SCMP?
I’m literally living in Ma wan’s buildings, (not the village tho, in the buildings) and I always goes to the village, it’s abandoned but I feel safe and happy there, it’s near a small beach and the wind breezes makes me very comfy, there are little forests there too, I really like there
Please this is so beautiful I love abandoned places so much
Who else got this in their recommendation box?
Its a beautiful place .
20 years from now, I'm going to open up my old DS, and log onto Animal Crossing, and my town is gonna be like this.
Is anyone here scrolling through the comments to see if there are actual ghosts or jump scares ? 😂
The background song make this place oddly beautiful
Everything creeped me out 😫
excellent film location for post apocalyptic movie!
Now let's take a closer look at many ghost cities in china
Ghost cities rotting away. Bad investment and wasted money. Ghost cities in China
Some of them were never even inhabited to begin with. Like the fake houses in London, just a facade, but behind the tall towers and massive shopping malls there’s no one there. No wonder regional development has fallen behind so dramatically without anyone noticing-with all that infrastructure on paper it looks perfect. They probably wouldn’t go into that much detail though XD
GHOST CITIES IN CHINA , CAN I SEE IT TOO , IM KINDA CURIOUS
"Ghost cities" in China are already filled up whereas this is an actual Ghost city.
am i the only one who would actually live here when all the buildings are worn down and lonely?
"Life was happier back then." that hit me
And here at first I thought the place is like this because of a Tsunami in past and that it is at risk for another one in the future 🤦🏻♀️
Finally! Someone who speaks Cantonese!
Even though I am still learning Cantonese, I try and not look at the subtitles just to see if I can understand what they're saying lol and most of the time I do 😂
I mean- he is hong kong-
Would be ironic if he couldn't speak Cantonese
I live in ma wan and since when were people allowed inside the buildings
Kokichi Ouma They probably got granted access from the government or authorities or they were allowed t o do so because they were filming a documentary.
Why would they not be allowed in, and talk about such bad horror stories ???
People should live here again because it’s taking up space in the wild
Why is there still stuff there I don't understand
I love ghost town, i wanna live alone in peace
That's really sad 😭
Just curious is this really a 200 years old building
1:44 I have a calendar like that!
作為香港人，我仍然認為這個地方很美，應該將其改建為一個新的城鎮，如果有人告訴我去，我會住在那裡！
Can we appreciate that the camera man went all the way to the village?
That's so sad that they were forced to leave. All of those memories...
when i saw the thumbnail i was going to make a hanako joke but i watched the video. it’s really saddening. they should rebuild this town so they don’t waste its potential to be a future residential area.
As a girl that is from Hong Kong, but is currently in boarding school. I have actually never heard of this place.
I'm kinda scared Cuz it's the 7th month and ... I'M SCARED AF! WHY AM I WATCHING THIS AT NIGHT? ALONE AT HOME? IDK WHY
its august tho
@@lourencovieira5424 in Chinese Luna time
@@lourencovieira5424 knew that someone would say that. I meant the Chinese calender😂😂😂
Damsie no, it’s Lunar calendar, not Chinese one. That’s just English name for it.
Damsie
what's wrong with the 7th month???
Pongan sub en español por favor saludos desde México
Why does this look so much and sound so much like in attack on titan when wall maria fell?
yeah life is sooo much more happier back then...😔
You know…l was very happy when l lived here.
What happened to the town? Why did it turn out like this?
Kuk Po is an abandoned village. It’s opposite Sha Tau Kok. I wonder if the ferry is still there.
I use to always go there cuz I use to live in Ma Wan
why did they leave the village ?
0:53 Ayee at least one person is here
No one:
Them: It’s free real estate
And people wonder y hong kong is running out of land with expensive properties
These places r still beautiful but it's a loss for people who leave this beautiful place n lived in small boxes in the city where u cant find a word n that is "space"😔
3 days ago I dreamt of this place!!!!!!!!! Like the exact same I was there with my 2 friends and there was a flood and every thing was floating away and we heard a weird noise and saw something and a weird figure stole my friends and then I woke up
Coincidence that I found this video today
I hate property developers as much as I hate politicians.
Their city planning needs to do more work. So many lands wasted on uninhabited islands yet the city is overcrowded. People hv to squeeze on tiny flats. However base on current situation, i doubt there will be improvement over the next decades.
That rocking horse just made it more creepier
Strange, I was looking at this part of HK on Google maps couple hours ago. Not specifically this town, but the area. Here it is on my YT que
I used to live at the estate "Park island", and I would ride my bike there to do some photography and fishing.
HK people like " No thank you. I'll better living in the dog cages then living at that 900 sq ft room...... that's too comfortable and spooky " XDXD
But those dog cages are 6 mill hkd
That's the ironic thing
Me: surprised bout how the calendar does not have much mould on it
Ppl:surprised why ppl left
It's so sad....
There's a great possiblity of encountering an actual ghost here. Creepy
1:46 calendar show year 1996 where rocko leave o-Town and back 23 years later
? Why they leave that town?
When it takes greed to destroy a whole village.. how very sad :(
Why did people leave?
Where are the ghosts? i came here for ghosts👻👻
I still want to live there tho. looks peaceful
But why did they leave ?
Oh, this is one of dream place! 👻
Is it just me or does anyone else want to go here?
Why they Left fishing?
so why they left???
The ghost must be the ancestor with the shrine
Why did they leave
Hong Kong should fund this city to make it livable again. More space for people to live in
I am from Ma wan. They keep it a big secret of what actually happened. i did not realize what Ma Wan once was until a couple of years ago.
If it’s been abandoned for 200yrs hows the man still alive
What music is playing?
Even at an abandoned place you can find "Lagerbier"🤣
Is it for sale?
Ma Wan island made me sad inside cause this place supposed to be relaxing not abandon
let's just move there... it's so peaceful
Wow 1996 i am still a kid now 35+
I wonder how they filmed this
There's no reason for people to leave such a beautiful place , but there's a chance for Hollywood to take movies here and people start to come back here as film city.