Comments on: Migrant Workers In Beijing Kicked Out Of Their Wells, Which They Called Home http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/ A Dollop of China Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:42:34 +0000 hourly 1 By: Monty Python http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/#comment-412903 Tue, 25 Apr 2017 01:44:46 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=20659#comment-412903 When WE were young, we used to live in a hole in t’middle o’t’ground …. and we ate nowt but gravel …. COLD gravel!!

]]> By: Eurotrash http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/#comment-241432 Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:18:02 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=20659#comment-241432 Yep. Saving face while the poor can eat cake.

]]> By: ExX http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/#comment-241245 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 20:41:34 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=20659#comment-241245 I am kinda broke right now, thinking of living in a well might be cheaper. Dammit, poor old lady. I really feel pity for her.

]]> By: benji http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/#comment-241212 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 17:10:59 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=20659#comment-241212 Its all about the glorious notion of saving face. The despot CPC blew trillions on corruption, built splendid monuments to aggrandize the failed marxist model of governance, etc etc etc, and yet have citizens living in wells, amongst the $$$$$$$$$$$$$ condos. Weep – China – weep.

]]> By: Eurotrash http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/#comment-241200 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:59:43 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=20659#comment-241200 So they cemented them up, making sure neither they nor anyone else has access to them???

]]> By: Sinikur http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/#comment-241110 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 10:04:21 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=20659#comment-241110 Umm, did it occur to them that there is a reason the government needs to be able to access those wells? In other words they were built…for a purpose?

Once again, shocked at the stupidity.

]]> By: terroir http://beijingcream.com/2013/12/migrant-workers-kicked-out-of-their-well-homes/#comment-241086 Mon, 09 Dec 2013 07:46:24 +0000 http://beijingcream.com/?p=20659#comment-241086 If there is a hilarious side to this story, then let it be that the story I read was all about the beginning part of the story – that a reporter went out and verified what people on the internet have been talking about. The story mentioned that this was a very common thing that goes back years.

At no point did the story mentions that these poor people got kicked out — despite one of the well residents coming back home and shocked to find so many people waiting for her.

(As there’s only one or a few reporters, and think we know what the other people were waiting to do.)

Worst part of the story is the over sixty grandmother who said she’s been living like this for 20 years after leaving her abusive family.

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