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Fourth City Name Ditched Over Deadly Superstition! 😱

Key Facts:

  • Telangana CM Revanth Reddy pushes "Future City" for the new urban hub, ditching the original "Fourth City" label.

  • Officials scrapped "Fourth" due to tetraphobia—a superstition where the number 4 sounds like "death" in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese cultures.

  • East Asian investors might bail if the name vibes bad, like hotels skipping the 4th floor entirely.

  • Local media ignores the switch and keeps calling it "Fourth City" anyway.

  • "We can't risk negative sentiment from key investors," say insiders close to the decision.

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Picture this: Telangana's gearing up for a massive new city to join Hyderabad, Secunderabad, and Cyberabad, making it the fourth big player. Sounds straightforward, right? But nope—some smart officers hit the brakes hard on calling it "Fourth City" because of a wild superstition rocking Asia. In places like China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam, the number four is straight-up cursed since it sounds just like their word for death, freaking everyone out big time. Think about it: hotels and hospitals there skip the 4th floor, jumping to 3A or whatever, and dodge numbers like 14 or 24 too. Telangana bosses worried that potential mega-investors from those spots would nope out, seeing bad omens in the name even if it's just geography. So CM Revanth Reddy flipped the script to "Future City," all shiny and forward-thinking to lure cash without the spooky vibes. But local media? They're stubborn, sticking to "Fourth City" like it's no big deal, while the government's all about that positive energy to build the next urban beast. Youth are buzzing online about how ancient fears are shaping tomorrow's skyline, wondering if this rename hack will actually pull in the global bucks or if the death curse rumor will haunt the project forever.



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