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Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City.

Patrick Boyle · 3.2M views · 2024-04-16 · 32:55

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Overview

Patrick Boyle's deadpan account of Saudi Arabia's Neom and The Line megaproject, a planned 170 km linear city that has been scaled back to a fraction of its size. He covers the feasibility problems and the financing.

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Recommended as the entertaining, skeptical overview of Neom whenever its progress comes up.

Recommended by 2 HN people across 4 months · HN mentions 2024–2025

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What people said

tim333 · 2025-03 · Strong recommendation

It was kind of a duff idea from the start. Patrick Boyles youtube Neom - The Line - The Rise and Fall of Saudi Arabia's Linear City [VIDEO] is rather epic if you haven't seen it.

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tim333 · 2025-11 · Recommendation

It's been rather extraordinary. The Patrick Boyle vid on Neom done about a year ago was entertaining ( [VIDEO] ). As might be expected that's all ground to a halt now.

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tim333 · 2024-10 · Recommendation

I think not. They probably mean the planned project would use one fifth of the world's steel but it is currently just a hole in the ground and the project is kind of ridiculous and won't get built as planned - even the Saudis don't have enough money. Patrick Boyle had an entertaining youtube on it [VIDEO]

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