I confess I'm skeptical if this Saudi white elephant project will ever be finished. But reddit has such a stupid borderline irrational hate boner for anything being build by the Gulf Monarchies, they always REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE with every post about Dubai, Qatar, Abu Dhabi, le slave pajheet wokers amerite? 
Subs like /r/architecture and urbanplanning are particularly narrow minded and predictable. They like trains, cycle ways and no cars, they also hate skyscrapers(THE HUBRIS THE VANITY THE GREED 
) and like 5-story commie blocks and straggy Sweden or Dutch style buildings and is SO DARN BORING. To heck with that, I want cool 1km tall skyscrapers, NYC is one of the few American metropolises adding a bunch of them to their skyline.
What an enormous waste of resources and ecological destruction.
'Ecological destruction', I mean the vast majority of Saudi is arid desert totally unable to support any form of life
Deserts aren't “unable to support life”. Theres a rich ecosystem there just like everywhere else.
NOOO STOP DESTROYING THE DESERTS 
"Archeologists are unable to determine why such an obviously dumb city was constructed in the early 21st century. Theories point to some kind of religious meaning or possibly a case of mass insanity."
“The latter hypothesis is supported by fragments of the only surviving written record of its existence: ‘Neom is a parody' by Adam of Something. More specifically it is quoted at length in a much larger work from the beginning of the second dark age titled ‘A Compilation of Notable YouTube Orations' by the internet antiquarian Wriz426769. This larger work has come down to us in only a single manuscript copied from the original.”
ADAM SOMETHING REFERENCE 
That cute twink is the representative of the collective mind of reddit's “architects” and “urbanists” btw.
Why is like 100% everyone against it? Genuinely curious. Usually when shit like this pop up you see atleast a couple of devil's advocates but it's just straight up opposition here, and that too, very strong. I'm not an architect or engineer myself but I do realize that the project looks really stupid, just from common sense, and I do realize some of you are actually professionals but I'm sure the people working on it aren't r-slurs either, and while this may definitely be a failed stunt for the rich oil people I don't really get the pessimism and hate for it. Wouldn't actually be the first time humans did something that the world would've considered impossible and a fool's errand.
Edit: I'm not advocating for this lol, I've known people who have spent time in Saudi, and I realize it's a shithole built on the sweat and blood or slave labours from other Asian countries, I get that this project is most definitely doing the same and I get that it's morally wrong, but why do you oppose this as an architectural project?
Someone decided to question the circlejerk
This Video perfectly sums up what it's like Working With a Crazy autocrat and why so many stupid projects pop up in Saudi Arabia/ UAE.
WATCH THE ADAM SOMETHING VIDEO 
Racism, literally it. This is said about literally every project made in the Arab nations specially the GCC.
And it's hilarious how the ppl in here say with such confidence “it's not gonna be built” as if the dozens and possibly thousands of experts involved in this project know less than these random redditors or some youtubers, many structures in human history were thought to be impossible to make yet they were made
Piss off with the racism. It's an architectural abomination and benefits no one but a select few.
Bonus
Urbanhell discusses @Aevann new capital
Adam Something did a great video on this already.
lmao 
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I am not without criticism for Arab nations but I start to unironically seethe when some Left coast bluehair starts lecturing Saudi Arabia for wanting to do something with their endless expanse of useless desert.
Like these radlibs realize the Europe they stan so much looks nothing like it did in the Bronze age. That the desert currently in the Arabian peninsula wasn't there 5500 years ago, when it used to be fertile grassland, full of lakes and rivers?
It's their country to manage as the see fit, so if they want to invest in it by taking a gamble, that's their prerogative. I wouldn't be so quick to write them off. Anyway, I think this is part of the plan of making SA part of the west. I think many of the recent legal changes in allowing Alcohol and citizenship for foreigners and building a hypermodern city are designed to attract Euros, Burgers, and other highly skilled professionals to the area, as a kind of mirror image Israel. Another modern secular area of the ME.
It's harder to get bombed by the west when you have a bunch of westerners living in your country.
At this point I hope they succeed because it makes the frickcars crowd mad
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That's great and all, but I asked for my burger without cheese.
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Yeah MBS definitely understands that the way they've been running the country until now is unsustainable and they've got to make drastic changes. Transform it into a normal modern country where the economy isn't just oil.
I have my doubts if he can pull it off though. The shah actually made a pretty decent attempt in Iran and we see how that turned out.
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