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Forest City: From Ghost City to Digital Nomad Playground?

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Feb 23, 2026
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There’s a certain genre of real estate story we’ve all seen before.

Big vision. Bigger renderings. Shiny towers rising from reclaimed land. A masterplan for 700,000 residents. A future city, designed from scratch.

And then… silence.

Forest City, the mega-development in Johor, just across the water from Singapore, has long carried the unfortunate nickname o…

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