China, How it is - The cost of living
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- How much does it cost to live in China? I go over, rent, food, transport and beer.. as well as one or two other things, join me and my co-host Beer-girl for the next episode of China, How it is
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Thank you! I am very happy that you like the videos, I'll keep making them as long as you keep watching them
Enlightening vlog
I've watched 90% of your archived videos
Each are insightful and valuable person accounts of contemporary China
And an earlier life
Thanks for sharing@
Nothing better than re-watching an old classic Serpentza video while drinking a beer.
Been loving your videos. It's very interesting to learn about some of the small differences, and you do a great job presenting useful info without boring.
For the same price you rent some 3-bedroom apartment in downtown Shanghai, you can only get a room share in downtown London (if you are lucky) - the main reason I hate living in UK.
Probably all street restaurant in China are better than most restaurant in any Chinatown (London, Montreal, New York....) at a fraction of the price.
+ambiva don't forget that most people there make less money than the people in london.
+Sarah Brooks One can simply do not go to any Street Vendors
Even in large, famous restaurant or chains the price is still very low (compare to UK/US) because of heavy competition and the advent of online reviews. Loads of options if you pursue safe and cheap, cook yourself (ingredient price is also cheap), or buy cooked meals from large supermarkets (Carrefour, Metro, Walmart, RT-Mart, Tesco, etc.).
To many regulations in uk , that's why . Australia over regulated by left party
@ben How about I'll keep my regulations and higher price, and you can have your food cooked in gutter oil. Damn leftists keeping the food clean and safe.
@@daveb5041 lol the food is safe in China
Best on the ground urban British South African reporter in China EVER!!
Go Beer Girl!!!
This was one of the videos that made me want to move to China last year when I first watched it, moving to Shanghai at the end of this month!
Well.. that was 2 years ago. Can we get an update?
If Oscar isn't tech savvy he probably doesn't have a VPN in China. So, he will never be able to respond.
Real nice laid back video explaining things about your experience in china. Thanks
It's shocking how high the price of things can change in such a short amount of time. When I visit China, I like to visit small places away from the hustle and bustle. I recall one time when I drove into Shenzhen to buy a can of soda for about 3.5 rmb, same can in Guangzhou 3rmb and 2rmb in the outskirts. A few years ago, 2006 I was on the outskirts of Foshan, a small village where I bought breakfast at an open market, 1rmb for 5 dumplings, and a bowl of wontons (15 of them) for 1.5rmb. Today, you can't get it for less than 10rmb.
do you find or think that you ever pay extra because you are a foreigner ?
Not really because i'm Chinese and speak the local dialects as well as mandarin
Hi budLove your channel.Lots of good advice to take in.Moving to Shanghai shortly.Keep the good stuff coming.RegardsMichael D.
Relaxing and Chilling out, too good! Beer is always a BONUS.
I am retiring (early) at the end of this month, and I am planning to go to China some time in the next few months. I'm an English teacher with 38 years experience, so I hope to get a job tutoring in speaking English. But if you're young now, don't wait till you retire!
I accidentally stumbled on one of your videos and I have just watched I think the 8th video of yours. You are very informative and I enjoy all the topics I have watched so far. My fiance lives in Guanzhou and I keep toying with the idea of moving to China to live with her and watching these videos is really making me miss China and really considering the move. Thanx for the videos and taking us a little into your life there in China, now I am off to hit the subscribe button.
Surviving in Shenzhen is gonna be awesome! And beer girl is awesome!
great video series i enjoy watching the china how it is.
he bought her a 1$ romantic dinner . Love is in the air....
You have a valid point and concerning TH-cam, sometimes it's not easy conveying humor or sarcasm. Usually the intent is clear, but there are always some people who are so thick that nothing will ever get through.
Just found your channel.. Love what I see and hope to do some minor vicarious living thru you (I'm landlocked with no near prospects of living abroad anytime soon.)
It might appear to be cheap, but it all depends on how much your earning if your living there and working. If your a tourist, it all depends on your budget and how much your spending a day on hotel rooms, entertainment, food etc.
I still think this is the best series you've made so far. Cheers
Thank you so much for all of these videos! I will be coming to Shenzen in August and you have been incredibly informative.
FYI, I "Shared" this onto my Facebook, I liked it that much!
hi,i like this video.Hope you can continue making them.
Thanks for sharing. wo de lao po really enjoys watching and seeing you enjoy life with beer girl and she makes / eats the spicy kelp too lol
well, I am a Chinese living in mainland China. you are right that middle class Chinese don't always sit out and eat in these kinds of restaurants. I have seen some other videos from him, and it is sure that he lives a comfortable life in China and off course at the level of middle class. he's really a nice guy.Another fact is that, I live also a comfortable life with no more than 10 RMB per day.But I am an institute researcher and live in a campus, in a second line city,different circumstances.
Watched some video you took. As a Chinese graduate student in US. I do think u give some useful information to the foreigners who wanna come China for travelling or Working. Very interesting and impressive.
Loving watching your videos. It's nice to see my home country from an unbiased westerner's point of view. Keep it up!
Wow this video really gave me so much motivation to go to China. Im learning the language at the moment and I really want to live in a different place then were i was born.
Me? Ride after beer? Noooo, I live closeby and can push the bike home if I have too many... Haha, she's a Hong Kong citizen, if anything she's my ticket out ;)
You are awesome! and I am a fan of your videos. I spent my Sunday drinking and watching your videos :) Keep it up as you have really made me interested in visiting china and maybe do some trades.
I love these videos. Thanks for the great advice!
These videos are god damn invaluable.
You also mentioned before, cheap medical. The problem with the cheaper places is the crime. I have not seen one place that doesn't have security doors on the balcony and front door, and that's also the case for the fenced in secured gardens. My girl was pick pocketed the other day, right off of Shennan, caught them but didn't scream - worried they would shut her up. Just picked up her wallet, said sorry and got moving. Someone said they saw, it was a group following her. I never had an issue.
very interesting videos, thanks!!
In Shenzhen a senior engineer earns about 1500 dollars a month, taxes are less in China than most western countries.
Hi Ke Xu, thanks for the information,
I was in Beijing a few months ago and like he said, buying non-local is very expensive. We paid 58 RMB per drink in a "Western" restaurant. In a local restaurant the same drink was 4 RMB.
Thank you for sharing you personal experiences
Transportation in general is super cheap in china. taxis, metros, super high speed trains, buses. buses by far especially long distance ones are pretty harsh. taxi drivers drive crazy but it's fine when you are used to it. metro systems especially in tier 1 cities are amazing. high speed trains are cheap, modern, and will allow you to see other cities easily.
Hahaha, I like how you ignored her when she said we don't understand guan li fai lol~
Come to China, give us your money.YOU GO NOW! YOU GO!
"YOU GO NOW!" YOU GO!"
lol!!
You imitate the broken English well!
Suggestion:
Between "money",and "You" add: You have outlived your usefulness.
lol thats exactly what i said. Im apartment shopping in chicago, and the cheapest i can find in a decent neighborhood is like a basic studio with no ammenities for like $800-900.
There's a fine line between constructive criticism and finding new ways of being offended by bogus issues.
Good Videos. ! Cheers from California
i don't know where you lived in china, but in our province, which is Jiangsu... the neighbourhood you lived doesn't have anything to do with where your kids get their education...i supppose you've heard the quite common word "fee for choosing school", if a lesser presitigous school locates in your district, then you can pay up certain amount of money to the school you wish your children to attend, and get it done.
Excellent video, Serpentza.
Do an episode on night life! Clubs, bars, etc. in SZ.. i was just in HK a few weeks ago. I'm thinking of going to SZ next time i go to Asia.
ps. More beer girl, she's awesome !
My dream is to live among the Chinese. Such a beautiful peoples they are. Thank you for these video I thoroughly enjoy it.
Love your videos, keep it real and keep it coming ;D respect
Do miss the street fare! Ya making me miss it even more! Keep up the great vids and dialogues. I remember how I had friends who got screwed by Chinese realtors charging expats exorborant fees. I always had a Chinese friend (re. girlfriend) to get the place for me until I got good with the lingo. 4K kwai vs 1.2k kwai...which would you choose? ;)
It depends if it is rural or not, city people generally earn a lot more and a white collar worker should be able to get more than 4000RMB monthly.
Greetings from Meiguo......I would like to visit China someday, possibly teach English there. Of course this is all down the road a bit, but I am making an effort here to learn the language and have a colleague that I worked with the past year here in the US but since has moved back to Kunming. Very good videos, good sense of humour and well spoken. Xie xie
Mike
Or even Hong Kong. I once brought a pair of jeans there for ten American dollars and they even alter it for you on the spot. But that was way back in 2003.
You can Come to Shanghai Nanjing road . Find any common restaurant and try again .
I think it's difficult knowing what to do in a hypothetical situation because it's different each time. It's a lot easier to assess if it's happening in real life.
In an office, you usually have the benefit of knowing the person and you can see the expression on his or her face and hear the inflections in their voice, i.e. the change in tone and pitch.
Also, I too have a dilemma, but it's a little different. I'm usually pretty nice and easy going, but some people interpret it as being weak.
Just saying, the minimum fee for the taxi in Shanghai is 14RMB. (It was 12, but now it went up)
very interesting. thank you.
That's his wife you were talking about man!
In gerneral, most comodities in China are cheap, but for automobiles and housing, the prices are bloody. Most estates in Shanghai are even more expensive than that in NYC.
Great video Thanks
shanghai is roughly the same as shenzhen in food prices, but is a little more expensive in transport and housing
How about the following costs: insurance (healthcare, car, others), telephone / internet, visas (HK travel), (local) taxes, parking, fuel. In this respect, SZ is as expensive / inexpensive as HK, though renting in HK is much much higher. As long as you stay local, life can be pretty affordable. How does spending compare to disposable income (in general)?
Hi i just want to say that i have went to china in many different cities.such as Shenzhen,Guangzhou ,Beijing,Hohhot,Xi'an .For the taxi in Shenzhen was the cheapest...for example in Beijing the start of the pay was double as much as in Shenzhen .I have only used the taxi for transportation in each city so yeah :)just a small information that i want to make it correct
Thank you for these videos. I've been approached by an old colleague and asked if I wanted to spend six months teaching business English and conversational English to graduates.
Now, where's my passport. I'm currently unemployed here and you may well have sealed six months employment.
See how cheap taxi fare is there. Relatively in hongkong each time I take a cab from mongkok to wan chai it cost me around 95 to 100 dollar. Everything price is rocket high in hongkong this days...difficult to live even. Thanks for video very informative.
I went into the mainland this trip actually. I went to Zheng Zhou and Xi'an. Did some tai-chi with a grandmaster, visited the shaolin temple, saw the terracotta warriors... touristy stuff though. I freestyled it in H.K. this time.. i plan to freestyle it in SZ next time. See where it takes me :) I bet i would like the difference.. HK was too busy for my own liking
Very nice. I prefer the local places to eat. Very cheap and often better food than the fancy restaurants. One of the best meals I had was for about 30 cents US in Guang ning county...a huge bowl of noodles and wontons.
Try living here in Sweden, taxi fares go about 70-100 rmb for a destination in the same city. 29 rmb for a busride even if it is only 1 station. But i assume you're comparing to other places in China, that's fine :)
I hope to live there one day, it would actually be possible to save money with those more reasonable living expenses than here.
I love these videos. im not going to china or interested in going but its entertaining to watch and learn about china. i wish other people would do the same in other countries like Japan, Malaysia etc.
by the way im from SA Cape Town. what you miss about home buddy?
No, they won't, because I tried several times and it went pretty good...
Hong Kong is not Mainland China and therefore should not be misconstrued to mean China (at least not to those in the know) - i know you were using it as an example but i'm just clarifying. rent and cost of living in Nanjing is cheap too (especially for shared housing) so his general assessment of the costs is at least relatively accurate. certainly it depends on the area but food is still extremely cheap all around though, too!
In 福州 it costs about 1 RMB for a bus ride, 10 RMB for a taxi, and 6RMB for motorcycle taxi
As a Chinese living overseas for 9 years, for me, China is still the most 实在 country to live. It is affordable and comfortable. Thanks for making the videos, I enjoyed watch all of them, Keep it up! ^^b
True, but you'd be surprised how much of it goes to taxes and living expenses. Most people have less than 500rmb in their bank accounts, a recent study showed. (our currency is almost exactly 1:1 exchange rate to rmb)
hey, i just subbed, love your videos, i saw in your previous videos that you travelled around the pretty much the south part of china, hope you can travel to north part of china and show us a video or two about your views on it in the future :) especially the part north of shanghai, like the shandong province and the jilin province etc, cause shanghai is pretty much a mixture of north and south, where you live is pretty much south, north is pretty different in culture in my opinion.
A bundle of thanks for the video man! Cheers! :)
Hi. Also from South Africa. Might be coming to China............still contemplating whether I will easily adapt or not.
dang $1 for a pitcher?
in chinese supermarkets it's pretty cheap. really but don't expect a clean looking western supermarket. in a western standard "high end" supermarket it will be affordable for things like veggies eggs etc. anything imported is more than it would cost in your hometown. therefore if you want to eat imported food in china you cost of living will be higher in china. generally average restaurants chinese, japanese, vietnamese are affordable 60rmb per meal. less than 10usd.
Really cool how people do these types of films
Are these prices (beer particularly) consistent throughout China? I will be studying in Shanghai this coming summer, and the beer prices shown in this video are rather exciting.
In 6hours this video will turn 10 years old, I like how people vloged and now it's an archive.
serp, is this arrangement with beer girl a business/stats relationship?
It's indeed a tough call. In real life Most of the times the intent is clear. When it is not, I would not know whether I should take it as an insult or not... What would you do about it?
And to be fair, this Serpentza dude actually have sincere respect for China.
Just found those videos, damn it makes me long back to china so bad. :(
Thanks for the videos and effort put into them though! :)
It's very different in different cities, and much more expensive for forigner.
Real life James bond you deserve more subs. :P
Thanks for sharing your way of handling this. It's pretty helpful actually.
There was a study by game theorist that the best way to deal with this situatioin is:
"if not offended, never offend the others; if offended, make sure you fight back."
Not sure why but they proved theoretically that this makes you harmed least.
If you compare population density with the other territories you should know the rent is not expensive. Meanwhile, quite a few part in China is mountain area and you know Tibet, Also the culture in China is totally different which most people want to buy house( may be more than one).
Great video, thanks for posting.
How much for train or bus tickets to other cities in China?
Please, don't forget to provide us with the exchange rate between the RMB and the US $.
I think it's kind of complicated to explain China's education system, because if I would go explain China's education system, I have to explain Hukou institution in advance. Not only China's education system but lot of other things is bound with Hukou. But I can tell you the public school is the most prime in China, and the connection between school and neigborhood in China is basically same to it in US, good neigborhood always has good school.
thanks for the video!
I've been to China three times. I travel to Zhuhai...... never heard of beer girl/just bar girl....still puzzled about your other video
tell you guys something about beijing transportation...merto of beijing is about 600KM long so far, and the price is 2RMB...yes...only 2 RMB you can set in there as long as you want...i think it is the cheapest metro in the world. and probably the longest.
Here in Hangzhou taxis cost 11rmb +1 surcharge...local restaurants here are similar to your place.
I'm an American and I would love to go visit china!
generally saying, china can be cheap if you live the chinese lifestyle. if you want to emulate a western standard lifestyle you will pay the same or more compared to western cities. you can spend 6 rmb on meat stick stands or 600rmb per person at a french restaurant. up to you. you can spend 4000rmb for a "shit" apt or 30,000 for a modern downtown located one. expats usually get housing allowance of 30k-185k(executive level) per month.
informative for people who want to visit china
I think you forgot to add insurance and taxes for your car, health cost, how much is petrol per liter, how much your wage is, or simply how much money do you keep for yourself after you've paid all the aforementioned costs. How much is the average wage in China for a Chinese person?
I never understood why you are always referring to prices as Renminbi/RMB, which is three syllables, when it's not even the actual numerical denominator, which is the one-syllable yuán.
yeh u r right, not all china like this, the owner of video lives in SHENZHEN,one of the most developped cites of china mainland, so the other areas r more cheaper than he does.