Yeah, i sympathise. I married a Chinese lady and moved here twelve years or so ago. Noise is a horrendous problem, and in my experience, the Chinese themselves don't seem to be bothered by this at all. We moved several times in Shenzhen (at my insistence), to try to get away from the constant drilling, banging, heavy vehicles ploughing through the streets at all times of the day and night, to no avail. So then we moved to our permanent apartment in Dalian - not any better, even though we live in a so-called "up-scale" part of the city. I'll never figure out the constant building, with the many thousands of empty apartment blocks and buildings just left to fall apart. There's no maintenance AT ALL - not even simple decorating or maintenace by the people living in the apartments. God! It drives me bonkers. I'm in a permanent state of sleep deprivation. Great channel, even though the subject matter often drives me insane. Stay happy.
Well i heard some one lost his mind and spent 1000$+ on sound isolation on one room. Apparenty it was worth every single penny. Sound isolation+earplugs=peace of mind
As a local Chinese, I can say that most of the Chinese drivers have good skills, they just don't give a dam shit to break the rules or potentially to kill me.
+Peter Yin But why?? You have many ancient philosophers, whom say to respect others and to take care and think carefully about your actions, your martial arts teach this, all sorts of things teach this in China, your government has LAWS against these traffic violations... SO... WHY? Everything should point towards taking responsibility and thinking about your actions, but then why do so many NOT do so, in traffic?? Makes no sense...
2 reasons. First is the culture revolution happen from 1966 to 1976. During these years, the Chinese government was stopped functioning followed by massive chaos across all over China. Generation who grew up in this period are not very good people, they couldn't care less about others and they may once beat their teachers to death during the time. Second reason is that after the culture revolution, the opening up and market reform made some people much richer, however it created the problem of uneven wealth distribution. The poor thinks society dumps them and the rich feel insecure and think money talks. So they all think rules are not something they can't break. For the first reason, it is easy "Death will eventually take care of this generation". For the second reason, it needs everyone's effort and it is a long term mission. But the good thing, which I can observe through my eyes, is that the youth in China are very promising, especially in developed cities. They are polite and law blinding children. To be honest the teenagers in Australia and US are not as good, I was once forced to give a group of 13 or 14 years old kids cigarettes on the streets in Sydney. While the adults are cool, I guess they just need to beat their kids a little bit like all Asians do.
I don't think Winston's reaction was a good one, but I can understand getting so angry at this behavior (not giving a damn about anyone but yourself) you eventually lose your shit. Been there done that.
Workers slacking off, companies trying to save money with poor quality construction materials, and no quality inspectors. If there is a quality inspector, he'll most likely be bribable. Beside, most of the construction workers aren't even qualified.
temporaryscars the party has set up subsidies for new development, maintentenance gets no such subsidy. Standards are, at best, suggestions. Concern for residents is not a thing.
You don't own land in China, you lease it from the government, and for residential buildings the maximum lease is only 70 years. Hence there's no practical or economic value in building anything designed to last more than 70ish years.
Believe me, not just Foreigners, Chinese people suffer from this zhuangxiu noise from others as well. However when it comes to one's own turn, he just do it without any hesitation. It's kind of the group ideology among Chinese people, just like the red fine ticket (wedding invitation), I hate to get it from somebody I don't really know very well, however when it comes to my own turn, I just sent a hell of lot out :P
86Corvus and yet we are hypocritical douche bags in many other ways in the west. It requires mind boggling hypocrisy ironically to pretend that this is unique to China. Not to mention total lack of self awareness
China's biggest problem, it seems to me, to be the people posting shed-loads of off-topic hateful comments in response to ADVChina's excellent work shedding light on daily life in China!
We also have bad Chinese drivers over here in America too. They seem to do about the same thing they can’t make up their minds where they want to go and then they change their mind at the last minute causing the traffic fuck up.
Lived in China 3 times the longest about it 10 years had this problem all the time... ended up going nuts one day broke a window and threw piss jugs at them ended up moving. Right into the same problem...
When you buy a property in China its literally completely barebones, they even take down interior walls, you're expected to install literally everything yourself from walls to kitchen benches and sinks ect.
I am very thankful for these videos as they save me from suffering from the same horrors you guys endure. Thank you. Much love, energy and strenght to you guys.
Last time we went to Beijing, the same thing was happening in the apartment above us. I swear, it sounded like they were trying to break through the ceiling into our apartment. And I was trying to work with that noise going, the whole day...
I've never related to you guys more! My gf just bought an apartment in a new complex and now I'm realzing how hellish it's going to be! When I first came here I was like, "how many fucking jobs require a jackhammer?!?'
The driving problem can only be solved by the threat of ruined social credit, steep fines, right? Basically the government has to go full police state on bad drivers
I've heard the occasional jackhammer in my building too, and while the sound is incredibly jarring, I'm pretty sure it's something that noise-cancelling headphones could easily block. But I get by with some homemade (cell foam in cellophane) ear plugs instead. They don't block everything, but soften up the noise a lot. I like living in a building with concrete walls and ceilings though. Feels very safe and sturdy, and apart from sounds travelling through the concrete, most _other_ sounds have to be _really_ loud to travel from one apartment to the next.
Does anyone else want to see a video on motor vehicle laws in China? Not only do I see what would be outrageous violations of law by cars in the US, I see C-Milk and SerpentZA driving on sidewalks, emergency lanes, etc. Looks like the wild west on (and off) the highway.
sometimes im too nice in China. My wife, Chinese, wants to hammer things on the walls in the weekend but i tell her no its not good too much noise. Yet minutes later its noise everywhere.
I had the same problem with noise during my internship in Xi'an... we lived on the first (ground) floor, but there was a small storage space below us that they decided to turn into small apartments. Drilling would start at 07.30 and go on the whole day. It took them about a month to finish.
DavidRsaid you beat me to it, brother. The corrupt chicom pieces of shit escape to Western (White) countries with their ill gotten gains, and we the stupid people welcome them with open arms, so their little shit children can displace ours. No more, not on my watch, not while I have strength in my bones.
Tom T you think it's bad in America. You have more Chinese overall in America but we have proportionally more in Australia. You have about 0.3% while we have 2.5% About 600000 of the population with most in Melbourne and Sydney. So it's like 50% in the CBD of Sydney. Sydney is the most expensive property in the world second to Hong Kong as a result. No one can afford to live now. Sydney's average house is 1.1 million and that's for s piece of shit. It's fucked. Not to mention they walk along the street and ignore you walking into you (cause we walk and drive on the left but they are so fucking arrogant or stupid they think the locals have it wrong and should move for them walking on the right). Australia is a whore and sold its kids future to the highest bidder. Some people got extremely wealthy as a result but most have been sold out if they never got in to investing in property.
They are moving into all the major cities on the west coast of USA. I am here in Los Angeles. And I think that the Chinese people make up like 15% of the population. And more are coming. And they buy up all the houses in nice areas.
@@tomt7079 i think you're thinking too much into this, but there's truth in it. This is one of the pitfalls of Western immigration policy. China is too strict, Europe (and America to a lesser extent) is too lax. Europe has a huuuuge problem with Islamic refugees totally eroding European culture, and self-loathing far leftists let it happen. Sweden is appalling these days. That's a much bigger issue than rich Chinese people pumping money into Western economies. They aren't the ones to worry about.
As a Chinese, I agree with facts in the video. They are big concerns especially in mid-size cities or newly emerged area. The thing is there isn't too much regulations, right now I live in U.S. and if you doing something not within the regulations you gotta pay a HUGE amount of fee for what you did, so everybody is afraid of doing them. But in China the fee you pay seems little compare to the profit you gain from breaking rules, and you can do them over and over again! Few years ago it was even worse when anti-corruption laws weren't enforced as much. Before president Xi was a president, corruption in China was really bad
DavidRsaid But developing countries usually face problem when enforcing laws, especially when there is such a huge number of population. Anyways, recent year a lot has changed in China, in good ways, in future it might be better
DavidRsaid other people don’t know better than Chinese about it, and it is Chinese who are in the best situation and the best position to have say about China, so I would like to suggest you that please don’t judge China in such an irresponsible manner
True comment, and yet 86 mentioned about the req. that new residents renovate, plus, the feng shui thing to chase out bad karma? I wonder how Chinese civilians really feel about the noise?
As a local, all my friends and I hate it for sure. That is why I decided not to Zhuang Xiu my second hand apartment. My neighbors just love me. But the problem is how to deal with it, the corps won't give a shit unless someone got injured, and the ZhuangXiu company won't care, they just want the work to be done ASAP.
Don't you get to choose who does the renovations? Why not just get a local person that knows how to do it rather than a dog shit corporation in the first place, or even possibly do it yourself.
There's this older couple that lives in my girlfriends apartment building in Huzhou right below her and their daughter is getting married so they're doing construction in their apartment in order to add an extra room for them to live in. I couldn't believe when she called me to show me just how loud the construction sounds were at 7 IN THE MORNING on a Sunday, this construction goes on every Saturday/Sunday now until it's complete. Couldn't believe this was allowed so early on a weekend. I asked her if it was illegal and she said you get used to things like this.
Ay I am the same after 2 years. Typical nong attitudes drive me insane. While they virulently defend china - themselves however would do anything to immigrate abroad and live up the western lifestyle with freedom, equality, safety and relax lifestyle. Wumao is just jealous of us :)
After a long day, squatting over toilets, breathing filthy air, eating fake food, taking fake medicine, and putting up with other bad things, in order to relax, no radio needed, just listen to the noise.
I'm sorry to say, but I live in central Stockholm in a 7-story building, and we have renovation fever here as well. There's always a neighbor on some floor who is renovating because they just moved in (heaven forbid you're using the previous owners toilet), or renovating because they're selling their apartment. The low interest rates don't help the situation either. With such ridiculously low interest rates, people with money left after buying an apartment has no incentive to partially pay off their mortgage, but instead spends the money left over on renovating the bathroom, kitchen or both. Long story short: I feel for you guys.
Come to my part of Sydney where for the last 2 years, right across the road, we've had massive buildings being demolished and even bigger apartment buuldings being built on the same site - 6 days per week, from 7am, of every type of demolition + construction noise possible, and won't be finished anytime soon. Yes, at least Sunday mornings are quiet, it's like awaking into paradise for a day, I've no guilt feelings at all for enjoying Sundays ;-)
I’ve been watching all these interesting videos. China is “interesting” 😂 from a distance, but I am 110% sure I’ll never move there. Shits insane. It’s interesting but it looks like it pretty much just sucks.
Perversion is one thing. The worst part is that 99% of J people don't even realize how perverted they are. They think that pedo manga, bizarre "massage" parlors, sexless marriages and what not are perfectly fine.
Thats right! ONLY in China and Africa can anyone just SHITE right in the street and then not even wipe their ass, get up and go eat Dog and Cat...damn Communist Cannibals
Jay Test An Indian like you shouldn't be talking about shitting on the streets. 850 million Indians still practice open defecation. Build more toilets before you open your mouth.
India has toilets built but they are not used because of preference to "shit out in nature", quite gross. BTW, I'm Indian. I am sad about the open defecation too.
It's quite evident many of the workers have no training/skill. No doubt it takes them twice as long as a professional would, with potentially disastrous results for building safety.
Awful. I have "mini-china" in my apartment since I have the same thing going on, albeit it happens less, recently. My neighbors apparently love home renovation or something.. Hearing those drills and what have you reverberating through the entire apartment, be at it 6 AM or 4 AM in the worst cases.. And yah, the worst is definitely the vibration you can feel. Even if you turn on music really loud to try and drown it (which cannot really happen) you can still strongly feel things shaking... Ugh.. It literally drives me insane during the worst periods. I got earplugs now, so it helps a bit at least..
oh , same thing here , maybe we are neightbours :D what i think they have hammer fetish and have to have hammer time each day
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I feel your pain. Living in Czechia, but people here buy cheapest drills, so they drill one hole for tens of minutes. I understand the need to do reconstruction work. But can't people just buy or borrow more expensive drill, which will make a one hole in 10s? Dang.
At least in Shanghai you aren't really allowed to rennovate outside of 09:00-17:00 (might be different times, im not sure). So if your neighbor rennovates outside of this you can call the cops :)
Do they also coat the elevator with a bunch of protective sheeting? Here in Taiwan, the elevator gets fitted with chloroplast or wood paneling to protect the elevator during the construction project. Some places even hang construction workers are forbidden to smoke signs... those are nice....
I so fucking feel you. Normally that isn´t a big problem where i life (Germany). but some years ago´an old cold war bunker had to go. And because they couldn´t use explosives for safety reasons (Many buildings around), they took the that bunker down with jack hammers, 1/2 year from monday to friday. it was a Nightmare.
An old trick we used in the UK was to set a fire inside of the reinforced bunkers, the expansion of the concrete and rebar would 'pop'' the concrete. Through the concrete in the 30-40's was pretty poor due to shortages and lack of re-bar....
Yes and thats a part of life, i dont understand this whole video complaining about, when my neighbor wanted to build a house next to me i had to put up with the whole construction noise untill it ended, also they say it starts 8:00 am and thats when working hours usually starts even here they start earlier at 6:00 or 6:30 am and so what, when i needed to drill a whole in the wall i did it but not late at night or very early in the morning. This whole noise is just a part of life.
One of the best videos in recent months. And the concrete examples you gave, plus filming the jerk in his Mercedes. These were just great. And also the background noise that seemed to sound like the ruckus on a construction site...GREAT VIDEO! Kudos!
I've had this in Nanjing for a while when they built the subway line in 2015. Then one morning on the roof and one afternoon in an apartment on the same floor (all in one year). But most of the time it was calm, especially in my second apartment. To be fair, I've had such neighbors in Switzerland for weeks drilling hand hammering and no complaints helped. The same dude was also screaming and beating up his wife and not even the police did do anything about. Orher neighbors in Switzerland were also noicy as heck. And also other countries I lived at I had noicy neighbors with loud music on Friday and Saturday nights. Unfair to finger-point only on China.
I’ve been riding since I was four and I don’t think I could ever put my life on the line in the cities you guys shoot from! As they say “it’s always the other guy”! When you combine that with the danger of your own home falling in on you, fake booze, a government that disappears people, etc. I’m finding it hard to understand what the draw of China is to you guys.
Don't count on it. Take it from me, we went through the same thing in Spain. When the real estate bubble pops new construction will stop, but renovation will get even stronger. All of the unemployed construction workers will flood into the renovation industry, driving down renovation prices, and then they will have a big renovation boom with more noise than ever! Sorry... don't shoot the messenger. xD
Miki Cerise there is almost no comparison with what has happened and continues to happen in China. The scale and scope are dimensions apart. The collapse of the Chinese "miracle" will be written about for centuries, if humanity survives.
i had this renovation going on for a month+ now, right above my apartment. i think they removed the tiles and the drilling gave me headaches and anxiety [im sensitive to the light and noise].. they started at 10am sharp... if it started at 8am i'd be dead...
4.05 as a Chinese I also hate such activity a lot. These damn stupid drivers are all not well educated middle age men who bought their driver license ten years ago.
Makes me wonder... how on earth does it take 1 month to redo one apartment? There are so many things that i dont understand here... why do you have to remove the whole fucking stucco (i hope that is the right word) from the wall? They redo the wires? Why dont you just repain that shit and get yourself some extension cables? Ok, i've noticed on the other videos that the corners maybe break... but FIX THOSE and dont redo the whole fucking place... get yourself some paint and save some money (that you can use for better quality, so you dont have to do it again next year) Ok... you want to redo your floor? In Germany many people use parquet floor... in China they maybe use floortiles... but to remove that shit shouldnt take you so long... and if you do it with 3 people you should be super fucking fast. Wtf are those idiots doing?
DreaMeRHoLic because they do a lot of works. When we buy a home in China, it comes with nothing in it. We have to install floors tiles faucets toilets lights socket switches and kitchen cabinets etc. by ourselves. Many of those homes are actually bought new as investment and the work were never done before. When people need to move in they have to do these works.
DreaMeRHoLic : They strip the places back to the bare concrete walls and floors, until the apartment is a shell. It doesn't matter if the apartment was only "reconstructed" one year previously and then sold, the new owner will have all the year old decorations removed and replaced with their own choice. Plus, as @cachem11 says, new apartments are generally sold as empty shells and *everything* has to be installed and fitted by the owner.
They explain this in the video: Chinese people don't like previously owned stuff. They want it brand new for themselves. They're spoiled brats; they were likely raised in single parent households after all.
A home means a lot for us. There are not many young people in other nations want to own a home as much as we do as they are happy with rentals, but most of us will try to own a home before 30. I can safely say that not all of Chinese people hate the décor from previous owners. A preowned nicely furnished property is selling for much more than a home with very basic decors in reality, which makes no sense if all of us would do the home improvements all over again after buying a home. Labor is still inexpensive in China, but those workers get paid 70-100 USD a day in places like Shenzhen. Not that affordable for majority working class. People in other regions are not as superstitious as Cantonese.
OMG guys I love your videos. Now I know why this lady in Korean Town stopped her car in the middle lane to go grocery shopping, she used the street as a parking lot, it was madness. Also in the Chinese neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Chinese families buy a house and they demolish it and build massive homes. Now I understand why? Thank you guys, you are both amazing and keep up the awesome job. We will keep praying for you guys. Hope to see you soon and thank you both for taking care of Gary when he was in China.
I taught in a school in HK, and the ceiling above/floor above was being jackhammered, all day, everyday. I taught the class for a whole year, in sign language, wearing ear protectors along with all the students.
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China urban cities are never meant to be tranquility. It is about vibrant in all its positives and negatives. If that is not the attraction, why would CMilk come to China, from some sleeper towns in USA? :) For Wilson, he is a man without a country, literally, after the blacks (I am not politically correct, so deal with it!) took South Africa and grind it into a halt. He has no hope in South Africa so he has to move to somewhere. The job opportunities brought him to China. He got a great wife and he settles forever. I mean that is the life he wants, absolute safety, fresh food and a wonderful woman that the whole internet envies. Lucky dude! :)
seriously shut the fuck up if you think immigrants don't have a right to complain about their home country. I live in the UK and France and have a right to complain. fuck off.
Construction in China is really obnoxious. Sometimes, it's pretty impressive, though. When I moved to Shenzhen, I walked around a station called Shangmeilin, and there was nothing there. I visited the area a year later, and now there's this massive mall with a lot of fancy-shmancy buildings near it. (The newness of the buildings makes everything look out-of-place, but impressive, nevertheless.)
As an American, the way you two ride your motorcycles drives me crazy, and would NEVER be tolerated in the United States! You keep passing each other, sometimes you ride in tandem, sometimes in the same lane, sometimes you ride on the shoulder that is not designated for traffic and looking like you are exiting, but you're not, you weave in and out of traffic, and even ride in between stopped cars. Not only would the citizens of the United States detest you for driving like that, but the police would not be so keen on it either. There are A LOT of bad riding habits you need to lose if you ever return to the United States.
Maybe there could be a building where in all the tenant's contracts it says that there will be periods of no construction throughout the whole building?
I had similar problem actually went ahead and installed soundproofing to one side of my house I used GenieClip technology with using two 12.5mm acoustic plasterboards and 2mm rubber sheet wedged between plasterboards - and gotta say that it stops about 95% if the noise coming from next door. So you loose about 10cm of room space but pretty much gain complete silence. Maybe something like that could help solving issues with the noise?
Hopefully the rising middle-class will force those people to alternative methods of redecorating Appartment buildings. It wasn't that big of an issue when I was growing up in China, but then again the whole city is practically set on the same clock which renders most of the resistance buildings empty from 0700 to 1800 during the week.
Now you can get even. I remember once a guy made you pass him in the HOV lane then took a picture of your license then had you fined. He collected a commission. Now you can do the same with that vehicle that stopped in the middle of the highway.
Based on the law, weekday 8 AM - 8 PM is renovation allowed(when most people go for work), you can call the police if there is any violation, all major cities take this issue seriously. I don't know if you are aware of this, or you just neglect it on purpose.
Most renovations of old apartments are not because of Fengshui, people just want to change the floor plan, or to replace old or damaged parts. When I moved in my current place, which is a used one, we found the kitchen kind of dirty and we don't like its white color and the doors were synthetic material instead of wood , although all the cabins were expensive Austrian made, I tore it down and renovated the kitchen completely, created some noises too.We also changed all the wall papers, we never thought about Fengshui issue.
It's like with meditation: How are you ever gonna learn it if you are forced to start with the hardest lesson? Step-by-step avoids destroying you. "That which does not kill us makes us stronger" leads to more people getting killed. It's basically a death cult mantra.
6:20 Which Bose headphones are those? I really need to get myself some that are up to the job of blocking out Zhuang Xiu noise. No, I'm not living in China but I'm dealing with office mates who are being excessively noisy. As a proframmer, I need utmost quiet to do my job, and their unnecessary laughter, screaming, cheering, etc all throughout the day is literally driving me mad just like the jackhammers in your case. However, I suppose I can't complain since at least I'm able to sleep.
Well it's a developing country , I bet you know it before going, you want layback relaxing quiet lifestyle, go to Canada Australia or any other developed 1st country?
I think it's not just developing, it's also aside from the new construction they love to renovate. In Spain we are the same so I can totally relate. I had argument with my neighbour too when renovating my place, but he did the same with his place, and then when he was finished someone moved in upstairs and it was their turn, then the government came to replace water mains, dug up the street, repaved it... then the gas company came to replace gas pipes, dug up the same street and repaved it again... :p We should make a noisy country club together with China!! xD
It's exactly the same in Indonesia and Cambodia. The locals seem impervious to it but anyone who sees their home as a refuge will have times when they go nuts with the noise pollution in Asia.
You guys are the one who put people's lives at stake by blocking the illegal turn and thus increasing the odds that someone would come along and plow into them. Two wrongs don't make a right you know. And the way you weave through traffic, ride down the lane between two cars, pass on the right between cars and trucks and the curb would get you two dozen tickets if you did it in the states.
in my nearly 9 years living here in China i never had this problem, i always choose apartments that are filled. and of the higher end areas. P.S. Winston please keep both hands on the bike haha you shouldn't be preaching safety when your not being very safe. :p
I totally feel your pain, having had constructions going on for almost 2 years (and then fled...), here in Hamburg. But what I also find interesting: How is it when the construction noise stopped, how about noisy neighbours? Is it considered rude to listen to very loud music or slamming the doors or "trampling" ? Or isn't that even so noticeable in the concrete buildings?
Construction for the sake of construction isn't a sign of progress but instead a sign of wasteful spending. If half the buildings aren't being used then that means that they are being built for no economic reason apart from to give construction workers jobs.
Bestline7 What's ironical is that USA also went in such infrastructure construction boom during the 50's and 60's and now there are many problems. China hasn't learned anything about that and does the same nowadays. Let's see how will China's infrastructure crumble after 20 years or so.
its a sign of a disaster if its not driven by market demand but by artificial government subsidies in the hundreds of billions of $, its a sign of a coming collapse, according to chinese search engine baidu they have over 50!!!! ghost citys now made of mostly cheap crumbling concrete.... this bubble bursting is going to be insane
Noise from renovation, or driving backward on the highway. Get used to all these man. People really don't care much about how others could be affected by their misbehavior in this country.
I feel for you guys, it's the same here in România. The only fix is to either find a house or if it has to be an apartment building, then find a small one, so there's not that many people to do renovations and you get breaks.
Even happens in brand new buildings. The old way was that apartments in these tower blocks would be built, walls plastered and painted, doors fitted etc. Someone would buy it and first thing was to gut it and re-do in the style that suits them. Now when you buy an apartment it is a hollow bare concrete shell. Then you have the walls plastered and painted, electric and gas installed etc. They do this in an effort to try and reduce waste as everyone was gutting new builds. Just crazy!
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I’m gonna tell you right now you’re amazing for blocking that Mercedes we need more like Winston on earth
That wasn't amazing at all that was even more dangerous you ...
Yeah, i sympathise. I married a Chinese lady and moved here twelve years or so ago. Noise is a horrendous problem, and in my experience, the Chinese themselves don't seem to be bothered by this at all. We moved several times in Shenzhen (at my insistence), to try to get away from the constant drilling, banging, heavy vehicles ploughing through the streets at all times of the day and night, to no avail. So then we moved to our permanent apartment in Dalian - not any better, even though we live in a so-called "up-scale" part of the city. I'll never figure out the constant building, with the many thousands of empty apartment blocks and buildings just left to fall apart. There's no maintenance AT ALL - not even simple decorating or maintenace by the people living in the apartments. God! It drives me bonkers. I'm in a permanent state of sleep deprivation. Great channel, even though the subject matter often drives me insane. Stay happy.
that's structural concrete and they're all drilling into it lol. future disaster in the making
I guess that's why Winston was pointing out how crappy the building quality in China is and why it falls apart so quickly after building.
Well, there's an easy fix for this problem. Move to Montana or Wyoming. Trust me, you will never hear your neighbors again.
hmm what is the scenery there forrests?
Mountains, Forests, Deserts, continental divide, glaciers, Oxbow lakes, buffalos.. Cowboys.
theres a ton of areas in America that are in the middle of no where
Can you find a nice woman in Montana??? Lol
Almost every state has huge sparsely populated areas especially if there’s deserts, forests or farms
Well i heard some one lost his mind and spent 1000$+ on sound isolation on one room.
Apparenty it was worth every single penny.
Sound isolation+earplugs=peace of mind
I'm glad you guys are teaching the Chinese how to drive. Good luck with that.
As a local Chinese, I can say that most of the Chinese drivers have good skills, they just don't give a dam shit to break the rules or potentially to kill me.
+Peter Yin But why?? You have many ancient philosophers, whom say to respect others and to take care and think carefully about your actions, your martial arts teach this, all sorts of things teach this in China, your government has LAWS against these traffic violations...
SO... WHY? Everything should point towards taking responsibility and thinking about your actions, but then why do so many NOT do so, in traffic?? Makes no sense...
2 reasons. First is the culture revolution happen from 1966 to 1976. During these years, the Chinese government was stopped functioning followed by massive chaos across all over China. Generation who grew up in this period are not very good people, they couldn't care less about others and they may once beat their teachers to death during the time.
Second reason is that after the culture revolution, the opening up and market reform made some people much richer, however it created the problem of uneven wealth distribution. The poor thinks society dumps them and the rich feel insecure and think money talks. So they all think rules are not something they can't break.
For the first reason, it is easy "Death will eventually take care of this generation". For the second reason, it needs everyone's effort and it is a long term mission. But the good thing, which I can observe through my eyes, is that the youth in China are very promising, especially in developed cities. They are polite and law blinding children. To be honest the teenagers in Australia and US are not as good, I was once forced to give a group of 13 or 14 years old kids cigarettes on the streets in Sydney. While the adults are cool, I guess they just need to beat their kids a little bit like all Asians do.
I don't think Winston's reaction was a good one, but I can understand getting so angry at this behavior (not giving a damn about anyone but yourself) you eventually lose your shit. Been there done that.
They don't have fear of police like we do over here. If there are no consequences to being an asshole, unfortunately many people will be assholes
Constant construction, yet everything looks to be in a state of disrepair. How could this happen?
Workers slacking off, companies trying to save money with poor quality construction materials, and no quality inspectors. If there is a quality inspector, he'll most likely be bribable. Beside, most of the construction workers aren't even qualified.
temporaryscars the party has set up subsidies for new development, maintentenance gets no such subsidy. Standards are, at best, suggestions. Concern for residents is not a thing.
temporaryscars : "Chabuduo" mentality.
The construction workers have such a low IQ they have to be watered every day.
You don't own land in China, you lease it from the government, and for residential buildings the maximum lease is only 70 years. Hence there's no practical or economic value in building anything designed to last more than 70ish years.
One fine thing you did I appreciated by stoping that car from turn around. SUPPORTED
Dude, if the Chinese government wants to keep foreigners away they should pay you guys to keep making videos like these. What. A. Nightmare!
Believe me, not just Foreigners, Chinese people suffer from this zhuangxiu noise from others as well. However when it comes to one's own turn, he just do it without any hesitation. It's kind of the group ideology among Chinese people, just like the red fine ticket (wedding invitation), I hate to get it from somebody I don't really know very well, however when it comes to my own turn, I just sent a hell of lot out :P
Yea, in the west we just call this being a hypocritical douchebag.
@@86Corvus Not just the west, hypocrisy is hypocrisy everywhere except you know where. There it's "culture"
Chinese game theory: If others are jerks, be a jerk, too, then it will bother you less.
86Corvus and yet we are hypocritical douche bags in many other ways in the west. It requires mind boggling hypocrisy ironically to pretend that this is unique to China. Not to mention total lack of self awareness
China's biggest problem, it seems to me, to be the people posting shed-loads of off-topic hateful comments in response to ADVChina's excellent work shedding light on daily life in China!
We also have bad Chinese drivers over here in America too. They seem to do about the same thing they can’t make up their minds where they want to go and then they change their mind at the last minute causing the traffic fuck up.
I just don't understand why both of you continue to live in China. It's compelling video but it is almost to the point of self abuse.
Dan Lubar it's the rage, built and bottled for years, coming out through a tiny crack in the glass, before it explodes and they leave forever.
DavidRsaid only jobless man too free to do such things, everyone else just busy they don't mind.
Just Stuff wow of all the replies to my comment this is just.....well bizarre, may I suggest you seek professional help
probably because his wife is from China
They remain to reside in China to trigger all the natives because the Meier exstsince of these two drives them crazy
I'm Chinese and I hate this 装修since I was 9 years old
Lived in China 3 times the longest about it 10 years had this problem all the time... ended up going nuts one day broke a window and threw piss jugs at them ended up moving. Right into the same problem...
Do they literally tear down all the walls and gut everything? Is a Fresh coat of paint and maybe some new hardware fixtures and flooring not enough?
When you buy a property in China its literally completely barebones, they even take down interior walls, you're expected to install literally everything yourself from walls to kitchen benches and sinks ect.
I am very thankful for these videos as they save me from suffering from the same horrors you guys endure. Thank you.
Much love, energy and strenght to you guys.
Last time we went to Beijing, the same thing was happening in the apartment above us.
I swear, it sounded like they were trying to break through the ceiling into our apartment.
And I was trying to work with that noise going, the whole day...
Not had a quiet week in six months? I haven't had a quiet day in six years since I came to north-east China this time.
I've never related to you guys more! My gf just bought an apartment in a new complex and now I'm realzing how hellish it's going to be! When I first came here I was like, "how many fucking jobs require a jackhammer?!?'
Has any one gone postal on someone due to this insane construction?
The driving problem can only be solved by the threat of ruined social credit, steep fines, right? Basically the government has to go full police state on bad drivers
Hi guys, I put up with this basically the whole time I lived in Taiwan. The bigger concern to me was "are these guys removing structural walls"
I've heard the occasional jackhammer in my building too, and while the sound is incredibly jarring, I'm pretty sure it's something that noise-cancelling headphones could easily block. But I get by with some homemade (cell foam in cellophane) ear plugs instead. They don't block everything, but soften up the noise a lot.
I like living in a building with concrete walls and ceilings though. Feels very safe and sturdy, and apart from sounds travelling through the concrete, most _other_ sounds have to be _really_ loud to travel from one apartment to the next.
in the past Chinese used to live in the same house for decades. Therefore that kind of renovation rarely happened.
Does anyone else want to see a video on motor vehicle laws in China? Not only do I see what would be outrageous violations of law by cars in the US, I see C-Milk and SerpentZA driving on sidewalks, emergency lanes, etc. Looks like the wild west on (and off) the highway.
They have proper driving laws, but they don't enforce them. They've mentioned this on some video with a related title
are you guys using a noice canceling headphone? its isolating quite nicely
edit: oh i should have just watched a few secs further :D
Do like the Chinese do, go to IKEA for a sleep ;)
ahahha that was good
Chinese sleep in IKEA because China's not willing give welfare to the poor
Hahaha, smart
Good one, based on reality. I won't argue that not all did that.
I love when he stopped that Mercedes. That was amazing! 😂
Love the video, definitely something I've noticed as well. It's amazing how well it travels even over WeChat video calls as well.
sometimes im too nice in China. My wife, Chinese, wants to hammer things on the walls in the weekend but i tell her no its not good too much noise. Yet minutes later its noise everywhere.
I had the same problem with noise during my internship in Xi'an... we lived on the first (ground) floor, but there was a small storage space below us that they decided to turn into small apartments. Drilling would start at 07.30 and go on the whole day. It took them about a month to finish.
That's just one of the many reasons that most wealthy Chinese that could afford to leave China are either planning to leave or left already.
DavidRsaid you beat me to it, brother. The corrupt chicom pieces of shit escape to Western (White) countries with their ill gotten gains, and we the stupid people welcome them with open arms, so their little shit children can displace ours. No more, not on my watch, not while I have strength in my bones.
Tom T you think it's bad in America. You have more Chinese overall in America but we have proportionally more in Australia. You have about 0.3% while we have 2.5%
About 600000 of the population with most in Melbourne and Sydney. So it's like 50% in the CBD of Sydney. Sydney is the most expensive property in the world second to Hong Kong as a result.
No one can afford to live now. Sydney's average house is 1.1 million and that's for s piece of shit. It's fucked. Not to mention they walk along the street and ignore you walking into you (cause we walk and drive on the left but they are so fucking arrogant or stupid they think the locals have it wrong and should move for them walking on the right).
Australia is a whore and sold its kids future to the highest bidder. Some people got extremely wealthy as a result but most have been sold out if they never got in to investing in property.
They are moving into all the major cities on the west coast of USA. I am here in Los Angeles. And I think that the Chinese people make up like 15% of the population. And more are coming. And they buy up all the houses in nice areas.
@@tomt7079 i think you're thinking too much into this, but there's truth in it. This is one of the pitfalls of Western immigration policy. China is too strict, Europe (and America to a lesser extent) is too lax. Europe has a huuuuge problem with Islamic refugees totally eroding European culture, and self-loathing far leftists let it happen. Sweden is appalling these days. That's a much bigger issue than rich Chinese people pumping money into Western economies. They aren't the ones to worry about.
@@tomt7079 Rats and sinking ship comes to mind.
As a Chinese, I agree with facts in the video. They are big concerns especially in mid-size cities or newly emerged area. The thing is there isn't too much regulations, right now I live in U.S. and if you doing something not within the regulations you gotta pay a HUGE amount of fee for what you did, so everybody is afraid of doing them. But in China the fee you pay seems little compare to the profit you gain from breaking rules, and you can do them over and over again! Few years ago it was even worse when anti-corruption laws weren't enforced as much. Before president Xi was a president, corruption in China was really bad
DavidRsaid But developing countries usually face problem when enforcing laws, especially when there is such a huge number of population. Anyways, recent year a lot has changed in China, in good ways, in future it might be better
DavidRsaid China just exit developing phase and becoming a developed country, but problem from previous phase can't be solve immediately right?
DavidRsaid other people don’t know better than Chinese about it, and it is Chinese who are in the best situation and the best position to have say about China, so I would like to suggest you that please don’t judge China in such an irresponsible manner
If the bubble ever pops, maybe the property owners will start to miss the sound of zhuangxiu...
True comment, and yet 86 mentioned about the req. that new residents renovate, plus, the feng shui thing to chase out bad karma? I wonder how Chinese civilians really feel about the noise?
umbriferum "when the bubble pops" FIFY
As a local, all my friends and I hate it for sure. That is why I decided not to Zhuang Xiu my second hand apartment. My neighbors just love me.
But the problem is how to deal with it, the corps won't give a shit unless someone got injured, and the ZhuangXiu company won't care, they just want the work to be done ASAP.
It's not if, it is when.
Don't you get to choose who does the renovations? Why not just get a local person that knows how to do it rather than a dog shit corporation in the first place, or even possibly do it yourself.
There's this older couple that lives in my girlfriends apartment building in Huzhou right below her and their daughter is getting married so they're doing construction in their apartment in order to add an extra room for them to live in. I couldn't believe when she called me to show me just how loud the construction sounds were at 7 IN THE MORNING on a Sunday, this construction goes on every Saturday/Sunday now until it's complete. Couldn't believe this was allowed so early on a weekend. I asked her if it was illegal and she said you get used to things like this.
This was a major reason I finally got fed up and left China after 8 years.
It annoys me bye
It annoys me
bye, make sure you never come back
Yeah, right. Foreigners are the ones pissing or shitting in the streets. Nice try.
Ay I am the same after 2 years. Typical nong attitudes drive me insane. While they virulently defend china - themselves however would do anything to immigrate abroad and live up the western lifestyle with freedom, equality, safety and relax lifestyle.
Wumao is just jealous of us :)
Zetta Bit Exactly.
After a long day, squatting over toilets, breathing filthy air, eating fake food, taking fake medicine, and putting up with other bad things, in order to relax, no radio needed, just listen to the noise.
I'm sorry to say, but I live in central Stockholm in a 7-story building, and we have renovation fever here as well. There's always a neighbor on some floor who is renovating because they just moved in (heaven forbid you're using the previous owners toilet), or renovating because they're selling their apartment.
The low interest rates don't help the situation either. With such ridiculously low interest rates, people with money left after buying an apartment has no incentive to partially pay off their mortgage, but instead spends the money left over on renovating the bathroom, kitchen or both.
Long story short: I feel for you guys.
The difference , though, is Stockholm has noise violation laws. In china, people jackhammer outside your apartment at 3am
that noise is killing me and it's just in a YT video.
I feel guilty enjoying a silent lazy sunday morning in the Sydney suburbs with sound of the occasional bird chirping.
Come to my part of Sydney where for the last 2 years, right across the road, we've had massive buildings being demolished and even bigger apartment buuldings being built on the same site - 6 days per week, from 7am, of every type of demolition + construction noise possible, and won't be finished anytime soon. Yes, at least Sunday mornings are quiet, it's like awaking into paradise for a day, I've no guilt feelings at all for enjoying Sundays ;-)
Japan Kofun 古墳 Redfern?
Anorax import more of the Ant People and kiss your bird chirping goodbye.
Tom T Fire ants prevail
Anorax And in the rest of Australia (except Vic)
I’ve been watching all these interesting videos. China is “interesting” 😂 from a distance, but I am 110% sure I’ll never move there. Shits insane. It’s interesting but it looks like it pretty much just sucks.
This is why I love living in Japan. Try pulling that shit here and the cops gonna be on your ass. God dammit I love living here.
do you think Japan had not this period of construction? you live in a developed country, thanks for that.
Perversion is one thing. The worst part is that 99% of J people don't even realize how perverted they are. They think that pedo manga, bizarre "massage" parlors, sexless marriages and what not are perfectly fine.
Thats right! ONLY in China and Africa can anyone just SHITE right in the street and then not even wipe their ass, get up and go eat Dog and Cat...damn Communist Cannibals
Jay Test An Indian like you shouldn't be talking about shitting on the streets. 850 million Indians still practice open defecation.
Build more toilets before you open your mouth.
India has toilets built but they are not used because of preference to "shit out in nature", quite gross. BTW, I'm Indian. I am sad about the open defecation too.
It's quite evident many of the workers have no training/skill. No doubt it takes them twice as long as a professional would, with potentially disastrous results for building safety.
Awful. I have "mini-china" in my apartment since I have the same thing going on, albeit it happens less, recently. My neighbors apparently love home renovation or something..
Hearing those drills and what have you reverberating through the entire apartment, be at it 6 AM or 4 AM in the worst cases.. And yah, the worst is definitely the vibration you can feel. Even if you turn on music really loud to try and drown it (which cannot really happen) you can still strongly feel things shaking... Ugh.. It literally drives me insane during the worst periods. I got earplugs now, so it helps a bit at least..
SweetLily :D same
oh , same thing here , maybe we are neightbours :D
what i think they have hammer fetish and have to have hammer time each day
I feel your pain. Living in Czechia, but people here buy cheapest drills, so they drill one hole for tens of minutes. I understand the need to do reconstruction work. But can't people just buy or borrow more expensive drill, which will make a one hole in 10s? Dang.
At least in Shanghai you aren't really allowed to rennovate outside of 09:00-17:00 (might be different times, im not sure). So if your neighbor rennovates outside of this you can call the cops :)
yes, and they will restart drilling 5 minutes after the police leave.
So I guess you don't have tips on how to sleep despite the renovations? I'm assuming earplugs isn't good enough and your body feels the vibrations.
The best is yet to come! What will these workers do after the real estate bubble crash??
Did the bubble pop yet?
Same in Dubia, Chinese state owned companies, awful quality (I'm from a construction background..so i know what i am talking about).
Question
So after 10 years will Shanghai and all those cities know for look great be falling apart?
Was Hong Kong was built to last ?
"And then I had to get Zhuangxiu for a month!!" LOL! Every foreigner who has ever lived in China laughed out loud at this.
Do they also coat the elevator with a bunch of protective sheeting? Here in Taiwan, the elevator gets fitted with chloroplast or wood paneling to protect the elevator during the construction project. Some places even hang construction workers are forbidden to smoke signs... those are nice....
I so fucking feel you. Normally that isn´t a big problem where i life (Germany). but some years ago´an old cold war bunker had to go. And because they couldn´t use explosives for safety reasons (Many buildings around), they took the that bunker down with jack hammers, 1/2 year from monday to friday. it was a Nightmare.
An old trick we used in the UK was to set a fire inside of the reinforced bunkers, the expansion of the concrete and rebar would 'pop'' the concrete. Through the concrete in the 30-40's was pretty poor due to shortages and lack of re-bar....
Yes and thats a part of life, i dont understand this whole video complaining about, when my neighbor wanted to build a house next to me i had to put up with the whole construction noise untill it ended, also they say it starts 8:00 am and thats when working hours usually starts even here they start earlier at 6:00 or 6:30 am and so what, when i needed to drill a whole in the wall i did it but not late at night or very early in the morning.
This whole noise is just a part of life.
Why did the bunker HAVE to go anyway?
One of the best videos in recent months. And the concrete examples you gave, plus filming the jerk in his Mercedes. These were just great. And also the background noise that seemed to sound like the ruckus on a construction site...GREAT VIDEO! Kudos!
I've had this in Nanjing for a while when they built the subway line in 2015. Then one morning on the roof and one afternoon in an apartment on the same floor (all in one year). But most of the time it was calm, especially in my second apartment. To be fair, I've had such neighbors in Switzerland for weeks drilling hand hammering and no complaints helped. The same dude was also screaming and beating up his wife and not even the police did do anything about. Orher neighbors in Switzerland were also noicy as heck. And also other countries I lived at I had noicy neighbors with loud music on Friday and Saturday nights. Unfair to finger-point only on China.
I’ve been riding since I was four and I don’t think I could ever put my life on the line in the cities you guys shoot from! As they say “it’s always the other guy”!
When you combine that with the danger of your own home falling in on you, fake booze, a government that disappears people, etc. I’m finding it hard to understand what the draw of China is to you guys.
Don't worry when the real estate bubble pops the noise will stop.
+big mike can't wait
Don't count on it. Take it from me, we went through the same thing in Spain. When the real estate bubble pops new construction will stop, but renovation will get even stronger. All of the unemployed construction workers will flood into the renovation industry, driving down renovation prices, and then they will have a big renovation boom with more noise than ever! Sorry... don't shoot the messenger. xD
Miki Cerise there is almost no comparison with what has happened and continues to happen in China. The scale and scope are dimensions apart. The collapse of the Chinese "miracle" will be written about for centuries, if humanity survives.
i had this renovation going on for a month+ now, right above my apartment. i think they removed the tiles and the drilling gave me headaches and anxiety [im sensitive to the light and noise].. they started at 10am sharp... if it started at 8am i'd be dead...
... another awesome video from you guys, many thanks!!
4.05 as a Chinese I also hate such activity a lot. These damn stupid drivers are all not well educated middle age men who bought their driver license ten years ago.
Makes me wonder... how on earth does it take 1 month to redo one apartment?
There are so many things that i dont understand here... why do you have to remove the whole fucking stucco (i hope that is the right word) from the wall? They redo the wires? Why dont you just repain that shit and get yourself some extension cables? Ok, i've noticed on the other videos that the corners maybe break... but FIX THOSE and dont redo the whole fucking place... get yourself some paint and save some money (that you can use for better quality, so you dont have to do it again next year)
Ok... you want to redo your floor? In Germany many people use parquet floor... in China they maybe use floortiles... but to remove that shit shouldnt take you so long... and if you do it with 3 people you should be super fucking fast.
Wtf are those idiots doing?
DreaMeRHoLic because they do a lot of works. When we buy a home in China, it comes with nothing in it. We have to install floors tiles faucets toilets lights socket switches and kitchen cabinets etc. by ourselves. Many of those homes are actually bought new as investment and the work were never done before. When people need to move in they have to do these works.
DreaMeRHoLic : They strip the places back to the bare concrete walls and floors, until the apartment is a shell. It doesn't matter if the apartment was only "reconstructed" one year previously and then sold, the new owner will have all the year old decorations removed and replaced with their own choice. Plus, as @cachem11 says, new apartments are generally sold as empty shells and *everything* has to be installed and fitted by the owner.
They explain this in the video: Chinese people don't like previously owned stuff. They want it brand new for themselves. They're spoiled brats; they were likely raised in single parent households after all.
nickmeistersa You mean single CHILD household perhaps?
A home means a lot for us. There are not many young people in other nations want to own a home as much as we do as they are happy with rentals, but most of us will try to own a home before 30.
I can safely say that not all of Chinese people hate the décor from previous owners. A preowned nicely furnished property is selling for much more than a home with very basic decors in reality, which makes no sense if all of us would do the home improvements all over again after buying a home. Labor is still inexpensive in China, but those workers get paid 70-100 USD a day in places like Shenzhen. Not that affordable for majority working class.
People in other regions are not as superstitious as Cantonese.
In Hangzhou and shanghai, you can only renovate between 9am and 6pm, weekdays only.
You should get a job selling jackhammers!
Please tell me. What would you use instead of the electric pick hammer? Hammer and chisel? How long would that take?
OMG guys I love your videos. Now I know why this lady in Korean Town stopped her car in the middle lane to go grocery shopping, she used the street as a parking lot, it was madness. Also in the Chinese neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Chinese families buy a house and they demolish it and build massive homes. Now I understand why? Thank you guys, you are both amazing and keep up the awesome job. We will keep praying for you guys. Hope to see you soon and thank you both for taking care of Gary when he was in China.
I taught in a school in HK, and the ceiling above/floor above was being jackhammered, all day, everyday. I taught the class for a whole year, in sign language, wearing ear protectors along with all the students.
Hm... its august 27 today, but everybody's comments are from a week ago...
Time travel duh
And the Illuminati too.
Kirin Hartman: I think a paying audience gets access early, some time later they go public and listed. Alex.,
[added: I got confused at first and though the Programming Pixies had got something very wrong!]
Kirin Hartman gotta pay to play... early
The are patrons so they get the see this vid first. Us freeloaders dont get to see vids when they are posted till a week later.
Man.. that stuff rarely happens here.. But when it does... It's soooo annoying... Can't imagine having that stuff all the time...
The peaceful tranquility of China .... NOT... Another great video on China daily life ...😉
China urban cities are never meant to be tranquility. It is about vibrant in all its positives and negatives. If that is not the attraction, why would CMilk come to China, from some sleeper towns in USA? :)
For Wilson, he is a man without a country, literally, after the blacks (I am not politically correct, so deal with it!) took South Africa and grind it into a halt. He has no hope in South Africa so he has to move to somewhere. The job opportunities brought him to China. He got a great wife and he settles forever. I mean that is the life he wants, absolute safety, fresh food and a wonderful woman that the whole internet envies. Lucky dude! :)
so great with all the crime.
A loser who couldn't survive in SA and then complains about China. He has no place to go but he still complains. Complainers are losers in life.
seriously shut the fuck up if you think immigrants don't have a right to complain about their home country. I live in the UK and France and have a right to complain. fuck off.
I want to know where exactly you are from?
Construction in China is really obnoxious. Sometimes, it's pretty impressive, though. When I moved to Shenzhen, I walked around a station called Shangmeilin, and there was nothing there. I visited the area a year later, and now there's this massive mall with a lot of fancy-shmancy buildings near it. (The newness of the buildings makes everything look out-of-place, but impressive, nevertheless.)
As an American, the way you two ride your motorcycles drives me crazy, and would NEVER be tolerated in the United States! You keep passing each other, sometimes you ride in tandem, sometimes in the same lane, sometimes you ride on the shoulder that is not designated for traffic and looking like you are exiting, but you're not, you weave in and out of traffic, and even ride in between stopped cars. Not only would the citizens of the United States detest you for driving like that, but the police would not be so keen on it either. There are A LOT of bad riding habits you need to lose if you ever return to the United States.
@Haley Chacon but at least one of them are american.
I've been lucky the two apartments I've lived in have had very little construction activity. Maybe more renters and less buyers. I'm in Beijing.
We have something similar in American apartments, it's called Mexican neighbors and their bass.
Maybe there could be a building where in all the tenant's contracts it says that there will be periods of no construction throughout the whole building?
4:36 thank you guys! that is what I face every day driving in China.
I had similar problem actually went ahead and installed soundproofing to one side of my house I used GenieClip technology with using two 12.5mm acoustic plasterboards and 2mm rubber sheet wedged between plasterboards - and gotta say that it stops about 95% if the noise coming from next door. So you loose about 10cm of room space but pretty much gain complete silence. Maybe something like that could help solving issues with the noise?
Calls out others for not being safe on the roads then pull shit like at 10:26, 11:28 ... come on man.
Hopefully the rising middle-class will force those people to alternative methods of redecorating Appartment buildings.
It wasn't that big of an issue when I was growing up in China, but then again the whole city is practically set on the same clock which renders most of the resistance buildings empty from 0700 to 1800 during the week.
What's with the clickbait titles and thumbnails lol
+Raidiar that's how TH-cam works
12:06 What is "normal means" to get floor tiles up?
Now tell us how Home Depot managed to fail gloriously in China!!!
The same reason Uber failed in China. The government is hostile towards foreign companies.
Now you can get even. I remember once a guy made you pass him in the HOV lane then took a picture of your license then had you fined. He collected a commission. Now you can do the same with that vehicle that stopped in the middle of the highway.
Based on the law, weekday 8 AM - 8 PM is renovation allowed(when most people go for work), you can call the police if there is any violation, all major cities take this issue seriously. I don't know if you are aware of this, or you just neglect it on purpose.
Most renovations of old apartments are not because of Fengshui, people just want to change the floor plan, or to replace old or damaged parts. When I moved in my current place, which is a used one, we found the kitchen kind of dirty and we don't like its white color and the doors were synthetic material instead of wood , although all the cabins were expensive Austrian made, I tore it down and renovated the kitchen completely, created some noises too.We also changed all the wall papers, we never thought about Fengshui issue.
Nobody can sleep during jackhammers, really? Bah. Such a casual sleeper man. You need more training. Remember disciprin' comes from within!
It's like with meditation: How are you ever gonna learn it if you are forced to start with the hardest lesson? Step-by-step avoids destroying you.
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger" leads to more people getting killed. It's basically a death cult mantra.
A perhsps stupid question: how can they need a month to strip an apartment from tiles???? Are they actually working, or just making noise?
C-Milk, SepentZa -- you guys are the bomb-diggity!
Greetings from Wisconsin, USA
6:20 Which Bose headphones are those? I really need to get myself some that are up to the job of blocking out Zhuang Xiu noise. No, I'm not living in China but I'm dealing with office mates who are being excessively noisy. As a proframmer, I need utmost quiet to do my job, and their unnecessary laughter, screaming, cheering, etc all throughout the day is literally driving me mad just like the jackhammers in your case. However, I suppose I can't complain since at least I'm able to sleep.
Well it's a developing country , I bet you know it before going, you want layback relaxing quiet lifestyle, go to Canada Australia or any other developed 1st country?
I think it's not just developing, it's also aside from the new construction they love to renovate. In Spain we are the same so I can totally relate. I had argument with my neighbour too when renovating my place, but he did the same with his place, and then when he was finished someone moved in upstairs and it was their turn, then the government came to replace water mains, dug up the street, repaved it... then the gas company came to replace gas pipes, dug up the same street and repaved it again... :p We should make a noisy country club together with China!! xD
It's exactly the same in Indonesia and Cambodia. The locals seem impervious to it but anyone who sees their home as a refuge will have times when they go nuts with the noise pollution in Asia.
You guys are the one who put people's lives at stake by blocking the illegal turn and thus increasing the odds that someone would come along and plow into them. Two wrongs don't make a right you know. And the way you weave through traffic, ride down the lane between two cars, pass on the right between cars and trucks and the curb would get you two dozen tickets if you did it in the states.
What does harvest season have to do with cigarette smoke? Do people smoke more during that time?
in my nearly 9 years living here in China i never had this problem, i always choose apartments that are filled. and of the higher end areas. P.S. Winston please keep both hands on the bike haha you shouldn't be preaching safety when your not being very safe. :p
paris weir They're poor people so that's what they get.
paris weir wooo
I totally feel your pain, having had constructions going on for almost 2 years (and then fled...), here in Hamburg.
But what I also find interesting: How is it when the construction noise stopped, how about noisy neighbours? Is it considered rude to listen to very loud music or slamming the doors or "trampling" ? Or isn't that even so noticeable in the concrete buildings?
Construction is actually a sign of progress. Which isn't the case for the America anymore. Crumbling infrastructure.
Construction for the sake of construction isn't a sign of progress but instead a sign of wasteful spending. If half the buildings aren't being used then that means that they are being built for no economic reason apart from to give construction workers jobs.
Haha, yes, that's why every Chinese who can tries to emigrate to places like US, UK, NZ etc. You clearly never lived in China, it's hell on earth.
Bestline7 uh, no, not in China. it's called a Ponzi scheme. Look it up.
Bestline7 What's ironical is that USA also went in such infrastructure construction boom during the 50's and 60's and now there are many problems. China hasn't learned anything about that and does the same nowadays. Let's see how will China's infrastructure crumble after 20 years or so.
its a sign of a disaster if its not driven by market demand but by artificial government subsidies in the hundreds of billions of $, its a sign of a coming collapse, according to chinese search engine baidu they have over 50!!!! ghost citys now made of mostly cheap crumbling concrete.... this bubble bursting is going to be insane
Here in England, relaxing no insane loud sounds, happy I live here ;)
Noise from renovation, or driving backward on the highway. Get used to all these man. People really don't care much about how others could be affected by their misbehavior in this country.
Lin Lin : Until they themselves are directly affected, then they immediately hold out their hands for compensation!
I feel for you guys, it's the same here in România.
The only fix is to either find a house or if it has to be an apartment building, then find a small one, so there's not that many people to do renovations and you get breaks.
you think the foreign never have the noise ?
Try to use the English language next time.
but my teacher graham from bolton said i can speak english is very good
he is teacher at the happy giraffe HeFei in AnHui province, do you know him ?
No i do not, I hope you are not paying money for the English classes as your teacher may not even speak proper English..
i told to him i want learn the oxford english, but he say he only can teach the chav english
If your teacher is from Canada or Unites States, they will not teach you Oxford or Chav form of English
Even happens in brand new buildings. The old way was that apartments in these tower blocks would be built, walls plastered and painted, doors fitted etc. Someone would buy it and first thing was to gut it and re-do in the style that suits them. Now when you buy an apartment it is a hollow bare concrete shell. Then you have the walls plastered and painted, electric and gas installed etc. They do this in an effort to try and reduce waste as everyone was gutting new builds. Just crazy!