There is really no comparison. I have lived in China since 2004, taking a 5 year break to return to Canada, then moving back to China for good this year. In Canada, I would have been working my ass off until I was 70 at least, if not 75. However, now, at 54 years old, I can comfortably retire in China and technically not have to work again, other than making TH-cam videos like you! My current apartment is 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and fully furnished with beautiful furniture in a tier #1 city. I pay 5000 rmb! MUCH cheaper than anything in Canada!! Great work on the video! Can't wait to see more!
5000 rmb for housing rental is NOT cheap considering the average income of China, and which "tier #1 city" is it? Also, assuming you use half of your income for housing (which is very high), then your monthly income would need to be at least 10000 rmb, are you telling me you make 10000+ rmb from a TH-cam channel with less than 5k subs?
Great... 1st time I came across your video. Tks. Very informative. I live in Malaysia and get really value for money, products from China. We can't afford western products anymore.
Hello, Abang, I am Singaporean. You put a smile😊on my face when you mentioned you cannot afford western products anymore. Do you not realise that many western products are made in China, then sent to the west where a sticker: "Made in X country" and re-exported?
I used to have a small apartment in shanghai, monthly water bill was less than 20 yuan, electricity was less than 200, gas was less than 30 yuan, soooo affordable. now i live in the US and have a big house, water, gas, electricity and trash collection is well over $300, around 2100yuan. it's so expensive to live in western countries, i really miss cost of living in china.
But you have gained freedom. You can serve the internet however you want without an internet firewall. You can freely critize the government without worrying someone will knock on your door and invite you to a cup of tea. Driving is also very affordable here in the US.
@@fdjw88 i was able to do that when i was living in china, i had VPN which allowed me to access any website. i often discussed politics with coworkers during lunch and get together, never had to worry about anything. you definitely never lived in china. i didn't have to drive in china because the public transportation was the best in the world, i hate driving in the US, i much prefer public transit. the only advantage the US holds is that luxury cars are cheaper than in china.
I have been living in Nanning, southern China, and our prices are certainly cheaper than yours. Public transport is between 2 and 4 yuan (roughly 20 to 40 pence), meals at a regular restaurant can be between 25 and 50 yuan. Yesterday we ate at a high end restaurant for a family ocassion and that only cost 100 yuan. If you are in a tier 1 city in China like Beijing, Shanghai, Schenzen, Guangzhou they are a lot more expensive than in other places.
Cost of living is fantastic in China. In Melbourne Australia, groceries, utility bills, internet, petrol, home and health insurance is through the roof. Also, our previous free healthcare system is becoming more like the US's - you either wait years to have surgery through the public system or pay a fortune upfront to be seen faster with private hospitals
As a Macanese 🇲🇴, I’ve been working & living in the UK for roughly fifteen years. One funny thing living in the UK 🇬🇧 is everything comes with a relatively fair price especially during the era UK 🇬🇧 was part of the EU which means vegetable sold in the UK supermarkets mostly imported from other EU countries like Spain except one thing housing! Housing in particular not only not very spacious but also very expensive!! Another thing is public transport & travel, not only services not very frequent but also relatively expensive especially trains in the UK 🇬🇧 comes problems of all sorts-extremely complicated fares & expensive, overcrowded & delayed, etc, etc,!! Apart from these, all other things are still acceptable like clothing in good quality!!😊 But it seems the quality of life living in China 🇨🇳 now is far better than the western countries where life is very stressful due to the high inflation which makes prices surge significantly!!
@@weizhang2834I'm very surprised that Asian countries usually have English as a 2nd language especially Korea , Japan, china , Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam etc
The biggest difference between living in Europe and China is the level of convenience. You can think of the things you need and deliver them to your doorstep in the shortest possible time 😊
That is why China is far better than the USA or the west because the GDP in PPP, purchasing power parity, is higher than in the west. Your money in China worth much more than in the west. It is not only caused by the high inflation in the west but also because of the fact that everything in the USA and the west cost more because of the capitalism which is based on profiting as much as possible from the situation. The working class is always the victim.
And working class in China have always done great , right? Jeeeeeeesus. Still 150 million malnourished. Still 1 million Tibetsn children forced to leave home because of horrific infrastructure and several other reasons,
Factory workers make much more money than cleaners or cashiers.And it varies from city to city.For large cities like Beijing or Shanghai, factory workers can make about 2,500 to 3,500 pounds per month. And in one of those most undeveloped cities they can only make about 800 to 1,500 pounds.Cashiers or cleaners can only make half of what they make, two third at most.
Apparently, they don't count as "people" in China, at least not in the eyes of those foreigners who only praise how everything labor-related is so cheap in China, cuz they know in worst cases they can at least be a English teacher there (using their "foreigner benefits", like you said)
If you happen to be a labor aristocrat working in the finance industry in London, you'd be making much much more than your Chinese counterpart (maybe a few times higher if not 10 times) so as to still be able to live a much higher standard of life even compared to the highest-paying white collar job in Shanghai. If you are just an ordinary white collar worker in London, the living standard is probably only slightly higher than your counterpart in Beijing or Shanghai. If you work a low-paying job in London, it would be hell for you. Your counterpart in Beijing or Shanghai won't live a luxury life, but at least they get their medical bills, and children's quality education taken care of so they have hope for the next generation.
Hi, nice job presenting your information. Can you tell us a little bit about what it is that you do for work? You say you are a teacher, what do you teach? What school do you work for?
The costs for any standardized state of living under categories like economy upper economy lower middle upper middle lower high and upper high. All of them if matched with similar classes of foreign countries is gratefully economical in the scale of 1 to 4 even for countries like used to be the cheapskate Malaysia. How does China do that? They have perfected the basics of and the basis for the unmatched anywhere else in the world the socio economic development of China which surely makes China the best choice even for the fussy Europeans, Americans and others who do not to live on an illogical budget which is a waste of money, body and soul.
What does it cost your lungs breathing the air? What does it cost your heart growing up consuming only propaganda? What does it cost your soul shilling for despotism? (Lived there for twenty years.)
If you lived for 20 years in a country you never liked you must be pretty useless on a individual basis since you couldn't find a job in a country more "up your standards"? Let me guess, English teacher? The easy way out of UK otherwise then only option would be benefits or cashier (at best)? There is far more propaganda in the west rather than in China. You mention despotism yet in 2023 you still praise Monarchy and did you vote for Rishi to be your PM in 2022? Oh right, he was appointed to rule over you and then he proceeded into shredding UK into pieces. Regarding the air quality, it depends where you are and in every metropolis around the world the air quality won't be good. Now go off, eat your canned food and your Tesco meal deals, smoke your vapes and cigs, drink your pints to the point you can't even stand anymore and then come back talk about "health".
I thought you wasn't allowed on TH-cam in China...? How can you even be a part of a communist society? You're British, don't you realise how lucky you are?
Many foreign expats visit China lately and upload their China video to TH-cam. How do you think about them ? Are they lucky to be part of Communist China ?
@@atso9453 TH-cam is still banned in China to this day (if I'm not mistaken), more platforms (Github, Steam, etc.) are getting banned nowadays, not less
There is really no comparison. I have lived in China since 2004, taking a 5 year break to return to Canada, then moving back to China for good this year. In Canada, I would have been working my ass off until I was 70 at least, if not 75. However, now, at 54 years old, I can comfortably retire in China and technically not have to work again, other than making TH-cam videos like you! My current apartment is 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms and fully furnished with beautiful furniture in a tier #1 city. I pay 5000 rmb! MUCH cheaper than anything in Canada!! Great work on the video! Can't wait to see more!
Wow, living the American dream 😅
Why not move to somewhere like Mexico, Argentina (LATAM in general)?
@@christianjvi 😅那些地方能和中国比？
bro that would be putting his life at risk considering the level of safety in those countries@@christianjvi
5000 rmb for housing rental is NOT cheap considering the average income of China, and which "tier #1 city" is it?
Also, assuming you use half of your income for housing (which is very high), then your monthly income would need to be at least 10000 rmb, are you telling me you make 10000+ rmb from a TH-cam channel with less than 5k subs?
Great... 1st time I came across your video. Tks. Very informative. I live in Malaysia and get really value for money, products from China. We can't afford western products anymore.
Glad it was helpful!
Hello, Abang, I am Singaporean. You put a smile😊on my face when you mentioned you cannot afford western products anymore. Do you not realise that many western products are made in China, then sent to the west where a sticker: "Made in X country" and re-exported?
My hometown is Ningbo , and I just moved to UK four months ago. It's really good to see your channel thing here🎉
I used to have a small apartment in shanghai, monthly water bill was less than 20 yuan, electricity was less than 200, gas was less than 30 yuan, soooo affordable. now i live in the US and have a big house, water, gas, electricity and trash collection is well over $300, around 2100yuan. it's so expensive to live in western countries, i really miss cost of living in china.
But you have gained freedom. You can serve the internet however you want without an internet firewall. You can freely critize the government without worrying someone will knock on your door and invite you to a cup of tea. Driving is also very affordable here in the US.
@@fdjw88 i was able to do that when i was living in china, i had VPN which allowed me to access any website. i often discussed politics with coworkers during lunch and get together, never had to worry about anything. you definitely never lived in china. i didn't have to drive in china because the public transportation was the best in the world, i hate driving in the US, i much prefer public transit. the only advantage the US holds is that luxury cars are cheaper than in china.
@@fdjw88 无知，胡说八道
I have been living in Nanning, southern China, and our prices are certainly cheaper than yours. Public transport is between 2 and 4 yuan (roughly 20 to 40 pence), meals at a regular restaurant can be between 25 and 50 yuan. Yesterday we ate at a high end restaurant for a family ocassion and that only cost 100 yuan. If you are in a tier 1 city in China like Beijing, Shanghai, Schenzen, Guangzhou they are a lot more expensive than in other places.
Sounds like a good place to retire, I add China to my retirement destination list. Thank you for sharing. Would love to see more videos 🎉🎉
The salary has increased by tens of times, but there is a difference in prices by tens of times?
Cost of living is fantastic in China. In Melbourne Australia, groceries, utility bills, internet, petrol, home and health insurance is through the roof. Also, our previous free healthcare system is becoming more like the US's - you either wait years to have surgery through the public system or pay a fortune upfront to be seen faster with private hospitals
As a Macanese 🇲🇴, I’ve been working & living in the UK for roughly fifteen years. One funny thing living in the UK 🇬🇧 is everything comes with a relatively fair price especially during the era UK 🇬🇧 was part of the EU which means vegetable sold in the UK supermarkets mostly imported from other EU countries like Spain except one thing housing! Housing in particular not only not very spacious but also very expensive!! Another thing is public transport & travel, not only services not very frequent but also relatively expensive especially trains in the UK 🇬🇧 comes problems of all sorts-extremely complicated fares & expensive, overcrowded & delayed, etc, etc,!! Apart from these, all other things are still acceptable like clothing in good quality!!😊
But it seems the quality of life living in China 🇨🇳 now is far better than the western countries where life is very stressful due to the high inflation which makes prices surge significantly!!
What a world! 30 years ago Chinese worked in uk sent money backto China
2008年，就有很多美国人和英国人澳大利亚人在北京教英语，把钱汇到西方还信用卡，学费。人们的认识滞后太多。尤其是中国人，很天真，总以为西方好
@@weizhang2834I'm very surprised that Asian countries usually have English as a 2nd language especially Korea , Japan, china , Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Vietnam etc
@@weizhang2834Awhile ago
i ran into some Malaysians
They speak really good English.
They still do. I know dozens of wealthy families in London sending money back home to relatives.
@@weizhang2834 我们学校的国外黑人留学生，免费吃住单独的宿舍，给发工资十多万一年，他们不用上课也不用考试
Thanks for sharing and counterbalancing all the China hate from the west.
The biggest difference between living in Europe and China is the level of convenience. You can think of the things you need and deliver them to your doorstep in the shortest possible time 😊
Happy holidays and reunion with your family in Thailand.
Thank you Calvin!
Come and experience the life in China 😏😏 everyone 🙌🙌
How about a video on current job market?
What vpn do u use
That is why China is far better than the USA or the west because the GDP in PPP, purchasing power parity, is higher than in the west. Your money in China worth much more than in the west. It is not only caused by the high inflation in the west but also because of the fact that everything in the USA and the west cost more because of the capitalism which is based on profiting as much as possible from the situation. The working class is always the victim.
And working class in China have always done great , right? Jeeeeeeesus. Still 150 million malnourished. Still 1 million Tibetsn children forced to leave home because of horrific infrastructure and several other reasons,
Try 40% less salt version of Vegemite from Australia for your B vitamins :)
Nice video. China is definitely better than the UK. UK is going to be like Spain and Portugal eventually - lol
Without the sun and great dance moves 😢
How much does a cleaner, factory worker or cashier' make in China? They don't get foreigner benefits.
you are completely right! The cost of living for them will be wildly different to me. I am only comparing to my own experiences.
Factory workers make much more money than cleaners or cashiers.And it varies from city to city.For large cities like Beijing or Shanghai, factory workers can make about 2,500 to 3,500 pounds per month. And in one of those most undeveloped cities they can only make about 800 to 1,500 pounds.Cashiers or cleaners can only make half of what they make, two third at most.
Apparently, they don't count as "people" in China, at least not in the eyes of those foreigners who only praise how everything labor-related is so cheap in China, cuz they know in worst cases they can at least be a English teacher there (using their "foreigner benefits", like you said)
但是生活成本非常低@@ChristianWayne-xk2cj
If you happen to be a labor aristocrat working in the finance industry in London, you'd be making much much more than your Chinese counterpart (maybe a few times higher if not 10 times) so as to still be able to live a much higher standard of life even compared to the highest-paying white collar job in Shanghai.
If you are just an ordinary white collar worker in London, the living standard is probably only slightly higher than your counterpart in Beijing or Shanghai.
If you work a low-paying job in London, it would be hell for you. Your counterpart in Beijing or Shanghai won't live a luxury life, but at least they get their medical bills, and children's quality education taken care of so they have hope for the next generation.
where in china are you? the apartment is quite expensive for china, in chongqing a 3 bed is around 250-400 pounds
The salary has increased by tens of times, but there is a difference in prices by tens of times?？？？？？
Amazing china ❤
It's strange why UK being a renowned welfare state is so expensive to the ordinary folks!
Hi, nice job presenting your information. Can you tell us a little bit about what it is that you do for work? You say you are a teacher, what do you teach? What school do you work for?
Basically it's public school, private school or English training center, probably teaching English
Sure I will. This is something I have planned soon.
thanks, music way too loud or your voice way too quite. disturbing, but thanks for the info
I was & study in the UK from 73 to 80. Those were better years in the UK.
Yes didn’t have covid from china destroying everything.
Yes didn’t have covid from china destroying everything.
Can you find halal meat in china ?
you can! there are actually quite a few halal restaurants here too
The costs for any standardized state of living under categories like economy upper economy lower middle upper middle lower high and upper high. All of them if matched with similar classes of foreign countries is gratefully economical in the scale of 1 to 4 even for countries like used to be the cheapskate Malaysia. How does China do that? They have perfected the basics of and the basis for the unmatched anywhere else in the world the socio economic development of China which surely makes China the best choice even for the fussy Europeans, Americans and others who do not to live on an illogical budget which is a waste of money, body and soul.
👍👍👌🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦➕️👏👏👏
Out of these countries
China is definitely the best in terms of living Russia too But south Africa, India and Brazil nah.
What does it cost your lungs breathing the air?
What does it cost your heart growing up consuming only propaganda?
What does it cost your soul shilling for despotism?
(Lived there for twenty years.)
If China was so bad then why live there for 20 years - lol
For a people that had lived in China for 20 years must liked it there. If you didn't like it why 20 years? 😢
20 years? Didn't have the skills enough to get a decent jobs locally.
Shill
If you lived for 20 years in a country you never liked you must be pretty useless on a individual basis since you couldn't find a job in a country more "up your standards"? Let me guess, English teacher? The easy way out of UK otherwise then only option would be benefits or cashier (at best)?
There is far more propaganda in the west rather than in China.
You mention despotism yet in 2023 you still praise Monarchy and did you vote for Rishi to be your PM in 2022? Oh right, he was appointed to rule over you and then he proceeded into shredding UK into pieces.
Regarding the air quality, it depends where you are and in every metropolis around the world the air quality won't be good. Now go off, eat your canned food and your Tesco meal deals, smoke your vapes and cigs, drink your pints to the point you can't even stand anymore and then come back talk about "health".
I thought you wasn't allowed on TH-cam in China...? How can you even be a part of a communist society? You're British, don't you realise how lucky you are?
No one ask you to watch. It's too bad your little mind only has DEMOCRACY in it.
dude are you sure you are watching youtube not just sleep walking talking?
You still live in the early 1900s, don't you?
Many foreign expats visit China lately and upload their China video to TH-cam. How do you think about them ? Are they lucky to be part of Communist China ?
@@atso9453 TH-cam is still banned in China to this day (if I'm not mistaken), more platforms (Github, Steam, etc.) are getting banned nowadays, not less