THE LINE aka Saudi Arabia's 100-mile long linear city

[Tisch]

@COB get back here!

The Line™ has had a slight reduction - 170km to 2.4km

Neom | Plans for Saudi Arabia’s linear city cut from 170km to 2.4km | New Civil Engineer

The news was broken by the financial news publication Bloomberg, which said that Saudi Arabia’s government had “scaled back its medium-term ambitions” for

www.newcivilengineer.com

 

[Lucille]

Honey, that’s not a line it’s a DASH.

 

[big ron]

lol

 

[Kratz]

I know a few people working on this and indeed the tech bit of it (whatever that means) has tried to recruit me too - the whole experience is bonkers and I would be surprised if much of it ever sees the light of day.

 

[big ron]

I know a few people working on this and indeed the tech bit of it (whatever that means) has tried to recruit me too - the whole experience is bonkers and I would be surprised if much of it ever sees the light of day.

A friend who lived in Saudi said they were paying daft money to recruit people on it because of how ridiculous it was.

 

[Kratz]

A friend who lived in Saudi said they were paying daft money to recruit people on it because of how ridiculous it was.

The money in insane and tax free but you basically live in a camp in the desert. Little pods and everything!

 

[big ron]

The money in insane and tax free but you basically live in a camp in the desert. Little pods and everything!

Yeah even living in the cities sounded a bit prisony, the desert would be even worse.

 

[octophone]

The money in insane and tax free but you basically live in a camp in the desert. Little pods and everything!

Christ, that sounds terrible.

 

[Kratz]

Christ, that sounds terrible.

Pretty dystopian. One of my friends escapes almost every weekend - at least to Dubai - there’s almost no expense whilst living there but he doesn’t sound like he can withstand it much longer.