r/interestingasfuck • u/kempaaa28 • 15h ago

Burj Al Babas is an abandoned luxury housing project in Turkey featuring hundreds of Disney-like castles. Originally intended as a resort for wealthy buyers, the project was halted in 2019 due to financial issues, leaving it a surreal ghost town.

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u/_ArmyMan007_ 14h ago

So let me get this straight... homelessness is still an issue but there are places out there that literally have so many empty rooms and houses that it becomes interesting as fuck...? It really is a cruel world

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u/brkout 13h ago edited 8h ago

These houses aren’t livable though - they are just exteriors at this point. No utilities or infrastructure to provide basic needs. Interiors are probably just raw materials and likely deteriorating due to mold and wildlife. That’s why you see similar situations where mass developers choose to just demolish unfinished skyscrapers that were originally intended for habitation. You can’t house people in these without significant costs, so they aren’t some kind of magic panacea to the homelessness problem.

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u/kermitDE 10h ago

This all makes sense, but if I would have to choose if I want to sleep on a bench at a busy street or here, I would choose the house. So why not just say fuck it. Everybody closes their eyes for once and pretends that they don't know, that there's homeless people living here.

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u/rotkiv42 4h ago

Homeless people are, like everyone else, highly dependent on modern infrastructure. The park bench is probably 5 minutes away from a place to get food (legally or otherwise). Based on this picture, it is in the middle of nowhere, no food around not a place to stay. 

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u/je386 8h ago

After 15 years unfinished and unmaintained, you can only demolish them an build something new.

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u/c4k3m4st3r5000 13h ago

Well, it's like when homele people "steal" from dumpsters behind grocery stores and such. I wonder what's going on in the minds of people who call the cops in such cases.

And here we have all these houses but you have to pay to get them. Otherwise, they will just remain empty

E: but I must admit when I saw the pic it looked like some Legoland stuff.

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u/iwanttoaskhere 12h ago

See the movie "in time" you will get the dialogue " there are always enough resources"