I Visited Malaysia's FAILED $100 Billion Dollar "Ghost City"

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as an introvert who hates crowds, this place seems like an ideal destination to visit on weekends. Clean and well maintained. Who knows, when the local population grows in the future, more ppl will move in.

The entire Johor state got less than 2m population, they build a 1m city with reclaimed land where plenty of land is available.

The city failed so bad, no one outside of Johor even knew about it. My dad is a professor in city planning and he genuinely forgot this place even existed.

what frustrates me more is that the amount of natural resources that was destroyed to build this city in a reclaimed land. Those woodlands, the habitat that was lost, the corals that was destroyed... for WHAT? to build an "artificial" forest? what a ludicrous concept.

Yeah this place has been the centre of controversy worldwide. - The housing prices is way too high for the average Malaysian, so the project was more likely for wealthy Chinese and Singaporean citizens. - The city is built on reclaimed islands despite being located near land. And the land reclamation destroyed the nearby mangrove environments as well for no reason. - Despite being created to rival Singapore's world hub status, it's really far from the already developed Iskandar Malaysia region in the south of Johor (Johor Bahru and the surrounding urban areas). Plus, even though there were plans to connect the Singapore Tuas 2nd Link border road to Forest City, it has yet to be completed, making the city incredibly isolated.

Bro decided not to fire his cameramen is wild 💀

As someone who live here for more than 6 months, i really like how quiet it is lol also there is actually a lot of people renting here, the outside parking always full. There is also security guard everywhere, so i do feel safe living here. And then, we got bus to tuas, so for malaysian who want to work in sg, it actually a really good choice to stay here.

Just like many Chinese construction, it is essentially Chinese Government investments in overseas countries made/sold to be of local interest and benefit. No private business can afford to build, maintain and not have the income (people renting and moving in) to support a project of this magnitude for a few months, let alone a year or years! This is clearly continously funded and maintained by money that is clearly sourced elsewhere and not from the project or how these kinds of projects are normally/should be funded.

This place is very good to wait out the zombie outbreaks. Can store a lot of supplies, including in the empty unts near your home. Few people to turn into zombies. Isolated

Yup.. my dad was an architect who worked on some of the buildings and they actually rent out some of the rooms too.. everywhere is empty and full of insects plus my dad wasnt paid AT ALL from all the work he had put in..

when the China developer tried to sell these homes to Chinese in China, some of the sales reps made claims like "buy a Forest City and get Singapore citizenship!" And people did fall for that

Forest City was once told as a modern residential complex but because of the covid 19 pandemic, no residents live here and no visitors when they are staying at home to keep quarantined from the outside. Two years passed, the entire city was remained empty and there are less people living there and at the water park is quite empty. At the shopping complex, every shops had closed due to pandemic. I remember that when I was 9, most of the shops are open but today, most of them are closed and almost no visitors visit here. I wish that i can go back to my own childhood there. This is my nostalgic experience in Forest City

Explore it at night, it must be eerie as hell. You could also get a much better idea of occupancy by the amount of lighted up windows.

Honestly, I feel liked I'd absolutely love to come here to retire just because of how empty and peaceful it all seems. Idk, it's just giving a liminal space kinda vibe that I'm all for.

Thanks for the upload I gonna go there for holidays!!! Seems like a perfect location for quiet relaxing time

Remembered coming here as a kid, I was so amazed on the grand layout and looking forward to see it in the future. Of course, as a kid after a few months I forgot about the place. Now looking back, it brings back memories and disappointment at the same time as it had given a sight of what future eco-city could look like. Thanks sushi for bringing up this content, without the video I would probably forget about this place completely.

at least its still maintained. if not maintained and guarded by security, the places will be severely vandalised and damaged.

The maintenance is pretty good, not a ghost city at all. I salute the gardener that maintained the Maze & balcony flower. My definition of a ghost city is the New York city in the movie I Am Legend (2007).

Before Covid I sailed from east coast of Thailand to west coast, final destination was Phuket. The trip came past Malaysia. I did see quite some abandoned building sites along the coast. Some of the buildings were nearly finished. I haven’t seen that much new abandoned buildings before.