This was a nice apartment! And for only $400 a month, it was a fabulous apartment! The only problem I would have with it is I'm crazy scared of heights! 🥴
Waking looking down on the clouds is like being on another planet! I'm 11 floors up, took me a long time to feel comfortable on the balcony, 52 floors is mind blowing.
I live in Moscow and I'm actually surprised how similar this apartment is to the one that I and many other people in this city live in. The only difference aside from the cultural stuff is that we typically have electric cookers and not the gas ones and we usually use water filtering instead of water dispensers. Everything else is actually very very similar
After the collapse at Surfside Florida I don't think I would trust reinforced concrete , Steel yes . Not sure I trust Chinese construction . They built small cities that are just falling apart and were never used.
I wet my Depends just watching the "Life in a Cement Bunker" video! Anything more than 2 floors & I won't live there!! Looking out my second story balcony in our garden court apartments with my cat watching the birds & squirrels on the greenbelt... Serene, peaceful with a simple outside stairwell for fast exit in case of emergency. Chinese Fortune Cookie say:" Rots of ruck in next earthquake buddy!" 😱
@@kerridillon3120 I live on first floor and thank god is that way ..my grandparents lived in other city on 17th floor and i was little scared when i was at their place...apartment was very cool looking with giant living room but i even afraid to go to their kitchen because it kind off round and floats above air ,not to mention to go to balcony ..when i was in primary school and sleep there i was so nervous knowing that just a half meter from me is a big height ..also there was second balcony on opposite side that was very small and look just down to some school yard just below and i did now have courage just step on that balcony..just when i open balcony door my heart would pump like crazy
@@jotterson1156 Yeah exactly, it's such a waste of space and makes the whole balcony kinda less-comfort or less-hygiene to me. Other than that, great looking house for the price!
$400 a month with that view!? Wow. I just looked up Ghangsha on Google maps and the city isn't even that big compared to others around it, but it's a MASSIVE city compared to cities outside of China! Impressive.
@@louislamboley9167 I'm sorry, while I am sure this apartment is nice for some, there's nothing about it appealing to me. The exposed piping, exposed mechanicals, low ceiling, dated style...I could go on. Of course, the apartment is cheap I suppose, but one does get what they pay for, do they not?
I am so terrified of heights that when you aimed the camera out the window I felt tremendous anxiety! Something you have that we don’t have here in the US is the heater in the bathroom ceiling. We do have them in some hotels and custom homes but they are not traditionally in most places. Thank you so much for showing us your home. I guess your little baby is a toddler by now. Wishing you all the best
@@Reneelwaring The outhouse is connected to the main sewage drain of the building. In the design plans, the patio was supposed to be a bathroom and an extra bathroom.
In the states, some very old hotels had outhouses on each floor at the end of the halls, outside. They all had holes straight down to a pit, but they were staggered. So the bottom seat was on the 2nd floor and was on the far right, the next level in the middle, next level was far left. The one that I've seen did not have an outhouse on the ground floor in this design, it was away from the hotel.
@@joblo497 lol!!! baby you're the best, youre not like all the rest no matter what you do, I will be proud of you! even if you receive a liberal arts degree Baby time, it's baby baby baby time!
The view of the downtown at night was really colorful. You're right when you say the Chinese take neon to a whole different level. I'd love to see it in person.
I live in NC in the US. I can't imagine finding a nice apartment like that in the states that is only $400. That is unreal! An apartment like that in the states would probably $1500 - 2000 a month. Or more in some cities. It's a nice apartment with lots of space. Thanks for the video. I've wondered what life is like in China.
I highly doubt this is completely truthful with the amount of propaganda and censorship in China. He probably makes more money than 99% of the population also.
Yeah this was mind blowing, I live in Seattle WA USA and rent for a 1 bed 1 bath is at the 2,000 a month rate, even studio apartments are approaching 1,600 a month
if you think this is cheap, i invite you to go work in china as a regular citizen. and when you will the get 500 dollars/month wage, you tell me that 400 dollars rent is cheap.
some would like to go to china, but the understand that they might just be thrown in prison if they say anything that's not to the liking of the commie government
@@vivianpang5096 Sadly this is true. I don't think I will ever make it back there. I wish I could ,but like a lot of places on earth these days travel isn't safe. I would have loved to take my children there.
The view of the temple and of the countryside is really pretty. I hope your family will still be using that camping gear after baby comes! It's pretty wild how that HUGE apt. is 400USD! I'm always surprised everytime I see anything about living in China. Thank you for sharing you your home with us.⭐
Ok I was going to ask hk$? Or usa $? Wow that is cheap compared to us here in California. Enjoy your son, much happiness to you new family! Take many photos! They grow up very quickly! We are only on the third floor but our son when little, lived to leap off anything! I'd be fencing in your 2nd outdoor patio to stop his spiderman or superman efforts! Wire screens fastened very well! Lots of luck to you and your wife and son! Yr of the water tiger. You will have many stories later! Ha ha!
@@throngarastora7569 yeah for a country which is known for not enforcing their minimum wage which is barely 3 USD an hour 400 USD a month is a lot. that's around half your pay there. but i do know many jobs that pay over minimum wage in China and most jobs do pay over minimum wage... but i think for those kids who just started working and got minimum wage this is far off. but in America it's the same way so i can't complain.
@@sheilasullivan1950 the average salary in China is less than half than the average in usa. That's why the rent is way lower. I believe it would be even worse for foreigners because most jobs don't take in foreign people unless they really need you ie language teacher which don't get paid much. I was a software engineer there but it was only for the time they needed my expertise. Then they had no more use for me.
Thank you so much for giving insight into an apartment in China!!! The halls and so much look absolutely spotless. I'm so glad you added the night view. Now I want to see the bridge in the morning opening to let the water flow as well as a high speed train. Please post more! So curious and fascinated!!
I didn't know what to expect but I was impressed. It seems like lots of room except for where the toilet is. No knee room between the toilet and shower. THEN you show a second toilet.
That apartment would be at least $10,000 a month in New York, if not way more. Even in smaller midwestern cities it would be $1000 or more. What a great value for $400
Beautiful place , I live in the USA and it’s very cool to see how things are done in other countries and $400 a month is great price of course depending on how much you make as a teacher, thanks for sharing this view.
I would say on average an English foreign teacher in china would spend about 10 - 30 % of their salary on rent. It would depend on the city they live in and the type of school they work in.
@@curious7188 Average salaries in Changsha don't seem that far off from Europe and America either, good on China for taking care of its people well. Affordable housing should be one of the top priorities of any government. I dread being highly educated in a 'rich' country and paying half my paycheck to rent without such wonderful view or space!
Nice video, pleasant host, accurate about middle class China. When I visited Tanlao (Inner Mongolia) and Shanhai the apartments where Chinese midle class people lived were spacious, thoughtfully deigned, and very nice. In Shanghai the was a very large central oval shaped courtyard surrounded by a number of apartment buildings. Nice place to run on a track or take a stroll or sit and read. There was also a play area for kids. In China I never met with any fellow Westerners, only Chinese people. They mostly all spoke English but when they didn't and I was a alone with them we could make ourselves understood and we could phone someone to translate a word or phrase. The college age guides were friendly and funny, good company.
How lovely, a baby boy. Congratulations! And thanks for sharing this video. $400 for that apartment? They are renting monthly storage units for that here in the USA. LOL!
Beautiful with the clouds at the end. Apartment was very nice and affordable. Wishing you and your bride a happy and healthy baby. I hope this reaches you and those you love in great health and happiness❤️🙏😎
I also cant imagine living that that high - above the clouds in the winter .. tell me , do you ever feel the building sway? I heard they can sway like six feet normally ? I'm not sure I could get past that. Best wishes to your family and thanks for sharing mate !
@@hermanrogers1325 probably those steel that looks like twizzler 😅 as far as i know tall buildings like these supposed to have an "I-beam" steel frame as opposed to the rebar that looks like twizzler. but we're talking about china where profits are priority over safety and everything there is substandard.
Literally my stomach was quezy at seeing how high the apt is. Very nice inside as long as you cannot see out and down 😀. I couldn't even go up that high and certainly not live and sleep there. I'm impressed.
@@hermanrogers1325 I has steel in it, its not like the Eiffel tower for example. Concrete cannot bend or it will break. I'm not an engineer, so I'm just guessing. I never recall the building swaying.
Can't imagine being that high up when earthquakes hit would be very scary 😳 very nice apt and so much larger than all the mirco apartments that you hear about all over there . Thanks for sharing and congratulations on baby wishing you and wife best.
Wow! I live in a flat/apartment in England, water leaks through the ceilings, black mould in the corners and the bedroom is so small that i can nearly press both hands on the wall. The outside view is a brick wall.
@@marblox9300London is very rich and where all the money is made but the money stays in London. Everywhere else is mostly abandoned and everything is very old except Scotland. Most of England and Wales is pretty poor and run down. Best way to describe it is imagine London as Germany or America but everywhere else in England is Bosnia or Kazakhstan. Easily one of the poorest places to be in Europe outside of London. Even Poland, East Germany and Slovenia (former soviet countries) Their households have more money than us and we have pretty much no public transport and alot of our roads are very small because they are meant for horses and have many potholes and some are even gravel. You just have to be optimistic to be here and just deal with it haha. It's not all negative because we do have some really beautiful places but 90% of it is abandoned factories and houses, empty shops and even in some very bad places people live in tents. edit: i was on a bus a few months ago to go to the next town over which is about 12 miles away and the windows were cracked and had moss on them, metal was rusty and the door wasn't shutting properly so for every turn, water would slosh across the bus as it was raining and we were driving through very steep moorland/tundra. This used to be a rich country many decades ago but only the main cities are rich now.
Thank you so much! What a great insight to a nice apartment in China! The view of the countryside with the houses below and the many skyscrapers in the background blew my mind! (around 8:02)
That's a great looking apartment! I could do some serious shortwave dxing from the 56th floor! The bathroom may be small but very efficiently laid out. Not bad for $400 a month! Thanks for showing it to us.
You do realize he lives in China, right? You wouldn't get much 'serious' shortwaving done at all; they'd jam your signal with state sponsored folk music first, and if you persisted, they'd arrest you.
@@simplechronology2605 Even in China they can't jam every single frequency including the amateur radio bands (w/ SSB). Even during the height of the Cold War people in the Eastern Bloc were able to bypass jammed frequencies and sill pick up western stations such as VOA, Radio Free Europe, and the BBC since stations change their frequencies throughout the day and in response to changing atmospheric conditions. Jamming stations made it difficult but not impossible.
@@captainamericaamerica8090 What are you talking about, in Miami average salary is like 5000/month, in changsha it is about 600 bucks. You still can pay 2000 a month and will be left with 3000 if you have the average salary. Not even mentioning that this apartment he lives in is 20km from downtown too.
Terrifying to me. I like to live in a house, where there is a window in case I need to jump out due to fire. In the states, it's illegal to use a bbq in an apartment building on the porch.
I lived for 6 years in the third floor (of 3 floors) condo and couldn't even have an outdoor electric grill like a George foreman on our balcony cause of the fire hazard. Can't imagine having actual fire on the 56th floor!
Thank you for showing me your apartment. Hello from Phoenix Arizona. USA. When you mentioned you were having a baby in 2 to 3 weeks I said a prayer for your baby. I hope him or her turns out to have a great healthy life.
This is not a typical apartment. It is most certainly a higher-end style of living. From what I have seen, the far majority of Chinese live at a much lower level. And certainly, there are apartments which are far more expensive in the bigger cities.
Lmao this apartment is not very luxurious even in China. It’s for middle class. Also Changsha is not really a « premium » city. A lot of apartments have higher standards this one is pretty old.
Congratulations on your son! Hope wife is well~ Thank you for sharing your apartment in China. Wow~It's large for $400. USD/month, and looks very comfortable! (I love a good lazy boy chair!) I'm afraid of heights, so could never live in a high rise building but can appreciate the views you have. Continued success in life for you and your family~
Being aware of the typical build quality there I would not be able to sleep in a building like that. Any pop or thud would have me searching for a parachute!
There are obviously some real stories of buildings literally falling over, but considering that to be a normal risk of life is like wearing a lightning rod around for fear of getting struck by lightning. With all the construction in China, and as few nightmare stories as there have been where buildings have actually collapsed, that is not a rational fear. The building quality issues usually come out in things like elevators that stop working, leaving you with a 20-minute wait for the remaining elevators to come all the way up that high; terrible water leakage that fills a place up with mold, or worse yet your upstairs neighbors hiring a substandard plumbing contractor and either dripping persistently into your apartment or actually flooding it; power service that was designed for a 20-story building, so it shuts off whenever there's too much demand... etc. That's where my fears would be lodged. I've never lived in a building THAT tall, but I have had those problems and many more in virtually every Chinese apartment I've ever lived in.
Thank you for the interesting tour of your lovely flat, that's very kind of you. I hope you, your wife and the toddler are doing well. Best regards from the German Baltic coast 🌾🐟🐚
I love how spacious but convenient the apartment is. The spare bedroom could be baby's bedroom in the future. Everything looks amazing and the price is great!
Very, very nice apartment especially for the price! But I could never live that many floors up. What if there was a fire on any of the floors below me? Glad you are happy with it!
@@irenedavo3768 rich people like actors, actress, business man, etc.. recently Madhuri Dixit an actress rented similer apartment at 1200000 Indian INR. i.e. 16000$ & that also not in so tall & old building.
You have a lovely home, but I must say, my anxiety level shot up when you took us out onto the balcony. Looking out the window when you're that high is nice, but when you can actually fall? Oh heck no! I would be terrified to have a child anywhere near that.
That’s not very luxurious in China. This is slightly above average. A 400usd rent is not expensive for most Chinese worker that studied in university and graduated
The places for the wealthier people and upper class are the mansions that we can see in the video. The rich want to be in an downtown apartment(he is far far away from it) or in a big mansion like here. If this apartment was located downtown it would be considered luxurious
What a surprisingly nice apartment. I would not be comfortable living so high up as I'm quite scared of heights. The bed in the guest bedroom is so close to the window if you left it open at night you could roll over and plunge to your death in your sleep.
Thank you very much for the tour of your wonderful home. I love the wood doors. They are quite different than most interior doors here in US. You have a lot of space. You will need it when baby comes and begins to grow! I appreciate knowing what apartments are like in your area. Blessings on you and your family. Hope you keep making videos, whenever you can😊
Sup Sayilu, yea the whole building is 61 stories tall.Its the tallest building in the region. Sometimes when there is strong wind I get nervous the building will fall over.
Thank you- very interesting to see how people live in China. Like some others have commented, I fear heights and could not live on 56th floor-too scary for me. Best of luck.😊
This may blow your mind, but things can be cheaper in other countries. I live in Zhuhai China, and my apartment is twice the size of this guys, and only $585 a month. i make roughly half the salary i made in America, but i only work 22 hours a week teaching here, and yet i am banking about two thousand USD a month, after expenses, eating out daily, and buying whatever i want. and as for the comment of being poor, the people in this part of town are all driving teslas, bmws, and mercedes to the three malls within half a mile of my house. its nuts.
A similar apartament in Hangzhou Can bring you Up to 1000-1200 USD/ month. In shanghai Even more. In South china or west china cities maybe less than this. So it all depends. Is not about the area or city sometime. Is about the community type in which you are .....high value communities in same area can be the price more high. ! All depends !
I'm surprised gas hobs are allowed in a high rise. Nice flat though. You could keep supper fit by using the stairs, I think 6 floors would kill my joints.
@@raiden72 I only wish that renter and his family would see your comment and truly understand what that means , if the fire don't get you the smoke truly will.
@@retiredsquad7716 but just to play devil's advocate, I see a fire hose in the hallways and potentially roof sprinklers at the start of this video. I assume they have the safety feature built into this new building, but most of the older skyscrapers will be sus.
$400 /mon Certainly good value for money! I don't understand why people talk so much sh** about China, I don't think is that bad. As long you are comfortable in a place where you live and happy with the people around you~ Just enjoy living!!
@@katerinadicamella Really? W/o Central Heating you can never get warm! I know a couple that had an apartment in China and no they didn't hire a plumber! Probably couldn't be done. Elevators rarely work, etc etc. That's why people bag on China!
@@gigiw.7650 Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe they're not living in a pristine condition apartment block? Every country in the world has some shitty apartment blocks but we don't judge from that.
@@gigiw.7650 LOL. I live in the US and I have no central heating and no hot water in the kitchen. Seriously. You talk like it's not survivable. I guess the westerners idea of unbearable hardship.
$400 for a high-rise two bedroom apartment with an awesome view? Unbelievable. When I lived in Center City Philadelphia I paid $2700/month for that 😂 and I was only in the 7th floor 😆
China has absolutely not building codes. Everything is cheap. Those building fall down every day an the developers don't get screwed. It's a dangerous place. Also just because it's 400$ american dose not mean that's cheap. It's very hard to come by even 100$ a month job. They are over populated and living on top of one another literally. Unfortunately the east coast is horrible with price gouging an pretending the city's are rich. Many people fleeing those shit holes just the same. So uncomfortable to have no privacy, space or air to breath it's trash city lol
This is China, The average wage here is $1000 a month, why do people like to compare china to average western countries? Check out China insight on youtube to know the real life the chinese experience in China.
@@SkyfalconTin yeah I lived in China that's not true at all. I stayed there for five years. There is class system. An most people barely make 10$- 100$ usd. If you talking RMB/CNY then sure thats 1000¥. I even get exchange rate of 1$ for 20¥ now that the Chinese economy is falling apart. But you can brearly get anything good for 1000¥. Like this dude's apartment is a shit hole. Barely 1000sqf. That's not middle class that's third world country shit. All you propagate such lies of what real Chinese go threw. I think you should realize more people live in boxes the size of this guy's kitchen in China, this is not being a "typical" apartment in China. It's really not. An people who know, know.
@@jizzstain4458 he pointed out that the water is not cleaned and if you look at the air quality there also not great. The whole place is hazard. Not to mention the quality of the building. I heard they called building in china “tofu building”. Not to recommend having children. For him, he probably have to say something good about China or else the CCP probably will arrest him. As you mention he RMB, I heard China banks stealing people money.
I lived in China for a number of years in newer apartments and different cities and provinces and that apartment is WAY better than what my wife and I had. That is not “typical” by any sense of the word.
ugh, I live in the country and love the open space and freedom, I could never live in a place like that, so high up, all that concrete, too many people...The fact you have to take an elevator just to leave or get to your living space scares me so bad, I don't trust elevators even if I have to use it only once, I get so much anxiety watching this lol
Random video that popped up in my feed, I'm glad I watched! Thanks for the tour of your home, I absolutely would love to live there! I've never lived in the city but with that view, I could be tempted to move!
nice video. great apartment, the cost is amazing for that place, the views and location, a great deal looking from the outside in. congrats on the addition to the family. thanks for the video visit. me being from the u.s.a. doesnt get to see to much real china living conditions and standards. we only hear more about the stereotypes that people have passed around for years and years. to sleep above the clouds would be interesting. i dont get that whole outhouse thing, when you said it i figured thats what you called an outside shed, nope a real outhouse on the 56th floor, very unusual. well thanks and good wishes to you and the family.
This was a nice apartment! And for only $400 a month, it was a fabulous apartment! The only problem I would have with it is I'm crazy scared of heights! 🥴
You ll be surprised how easy you get used to it
I pay over 5 times that to live among urban decay in California
wow.... .. more room then i have
@@hxwow
Go live in China - America has had its day. Long live the revolution!
Exactly. I could not live at that height. Above five or six floors forget it.
I wish your wife a healthy delivery and wish for you two a happy and loving baby. sending lots of love from Senegal 🇸🇳
oh and the height !!! I couldn't omggg
Hi Chewing gum thanks for the blessing. My baby boy is very heathy. He is very naughty and has a lot of energy, but we all still love him.
Not from Senegal, but exactly the same sentiment. Much love from Trinidad 🇹🇹
@@curious7188 Congratulations on the baby. Did you guys have to lockdown in place because of the virus? That must have been pretty scary.
@@evilchaperone We only had a lockdown in January 2020. It was longer than a month, but we didn't live in the apartment yet.
Waking looking down on the clouds is like being on another planet! I'm 11 floors up, took me a long time to feel comfortable on the balcony, 52 floors is mind blowing.
56 floors
@@leslieannvanhumbeck9444 .
@@leslieannvanhumbeck9444 yea imagine riding the elevator up to your apartment every day !!! Yikes
@@mikewilliams2106 better yet imagine walking the stairs! Lol
Thats not clouds..thats pollution!
I live in Moscow and I'm actually surprised how similar this apartment is to the one that I and many other people in this city live in. The only difference aside from the cultural stuff is that we typically have electric cookers and not the gas ones and we usually use water filtering instead of water dispensers. Everything else is actually very very similar
Sim city
Yet this apartment is WAY cheaper than in Moscow
@@nik91294 depends on the region of the city really
Communism
@@theshavettes Russia isn't communist anymore for like 30 years
if I had that apartment I would literally just sit at the window and look at the night view so cool and awesome looking
It’s got a Horrible, dystopian view, IMO.
Scary! I could never live on the 56th floor.
especially when the building could be tofu
Seriously there's no way you could take thr stairs regularly. You'll have to take the elevator and god forbid something happens to it.
After the collapse at Surfside Florida I don't think I would trust reinforced concrete , Steel yes . Not sure I trust Chinese construction . They built small cities that are just falling apart and were never used.
I wet my Depends just watching the "Life in a Cement Bunker" video! Anything more than 2 floors & I won't live there!! Looking out my second story balcony in our garden court apartments with my cat watching the birds & squirrels on the greenbelt... Serene, peaceful with a simple outside stairwell for fast exit in case of emergency. Chinese Fortune Cookie say:" Rots of ruck in next earthquake buddy!" 😱
@@kerridillon3120 I live on first floor and thank god is that way ..my grandparents lived in other city on 17th floor and i was little scared when i was at their place...apartment was very cool looking with giant living room but i even afraid to go to their kitchen because it kind off round and floats above air ,not to mention to go to balcony ..when i was in primary school and sleep there i was so nervous knowing that just a half meter from me is a big height ..also there was second balcony on opposite side that was very small and look just down to some school yard just below and i did now have courage just step on that balcony..just when i open balcony door my heart would pump like crazy
What a lovely home! I have never seen a highrise apartment with an outhouse before!
😄 yeah what's up with that?
@@jotterson1156
Yeah exactly, it's such a waste of space and makes the whole balcony kinda less-comfort or less-hygiene to me.
Other than that, great looking house for the price!
It looks like it was meant to be the bathroom for a planned third bedroom, but then the developer changed the plans halfway through construction.
$400 a month with that view!? Wow. I just looked up Ghangsha on Google maps and the city isn't even that big compared to others around it, but it's a MASSIVE city compared to cities outside of China! Impressive.
@@user-fe7bo5mm1othis apartment is for middle class, why are you using minimum wage?
That's very impressive. Thank you for taking the time to show it. Your going to make all apartment dwellers in the US very envious.
Certainly you’re joking.
@@davidgmaloof Have you seen what a crummy studio in a metropolitan area rents for recently. In a safe neighborhood ?
@@louislamboley9167 I'm sorry, while I am sure this apartment is nice for some, there's nothing about it appealing to me. The exposed piping, exposed mechanicals, low ceiling, dated style...I could go on. Of course, the apartment is cheap I suppose, but one does get what they pay for, do they not?
Cheap propaganda.
I am so terrified of heights that when you aimed the camera out the window I felt tremendous anxiety! Something you have that we don’t have here in the US is the heater in the bathroom ceiling. We do have them in some hotels and custom homes but they are not traditionally in most places. Thank you so much for showing us your home. I guess your little baby is a toddler by now. Wishing you all the best
I don't know what's more scary about the outhouse, doing my business while everyone can hear me or being so close to edge.
I have to wonder where the outhouse is drained to? In the US it goes into a hole, does it go down to the street in China?
@@Reneelwaring The outhouse is connected to the main sewage drain of the building. In the design plans, the patio was supposed to be a bathroom and an extra bathroom.
@@Reneelwaring Yeah...he said he's on the 56th floor right? What the heck! Thats a LOOOOONG way for poop to drop.
In the states, some very old hotels had outhouses on each floor at the end of the halls, outside. They all had holes straight down to a pit, but they were staggered. So the bottom seat was on the 2nd floor and was on the far right, the next level in the middle, next level was far left. The one that I've seen did not have an outhouse on the ground floor in this design, it was away from the hotel.
@@d.martinez-rodriguez333 back in the days, an outhouse was called a longdrop in my country .😂😂😂😂
Congrats on the baby! Hope all is going well! The apartment was bigger than I was expecting! The outhouse 56 stories up is hilarious!
I was wondering if its even plumbed in?!
It's baby time!! - Creepio
Velocity of dung from 56 floors? Deadly!
@@joblo497 lol!!!
baby you're the best, youre not like all the rest
no matter what you do, I will be proud of you!
even if you receive a liberal arts degree
Baby time, it's baby baby baby time!
floor 56? daaaaamn.....
too, i am so afraid to have a opened terrace without any protection (glass or metal bar)
@@freeofbug There is glass. You were not paying attention.
@@carolynzaremba5469 They may have bene referring to the decking area.
The view of the downtown at night was really colorful. You're right when you say the Chinese take neon to a whole different level. I'd love to see it in person.
China, Japan, and Korea has a lot of neon lights. I’ve always been jealous! We need more neon lights in U.S. cities!
Thank you for showing us your lovely home , very interesting
I live in NC in the US. I can't imagine finding a nice apartment like that in the states that is only $400. That is unreal! An apartment like that in the states would probably
$1500 - 2000 a month. Or more in some cities. It's a nice apartment with lots of space. Thanks for the video. I've wondered what life is like in China.
remember that people in other parts of the world dont make as much money as in the US
I highly doubt this is completely truthful with the amount of propaganda and censorship in China. He probably makes more money than 99% of the population also.
Yeah this was mind blowing, I live in Seattle WA USA and rent for a 1 bed 1 bath is at the 2,000 a month rate, even studio apartments are approaching 1,600 a month
if you think this is cheap, i invite you to go work in china as a regular citizen. and when you will the get 500 dollars/month wage, you tell me that 400 dollars rent is cheap.
$400 in China is a lot of money.
What a nice apartment and layout. And quite affordable. In downtown Los Angeles your unit would rent for around $4500.00 to $5500.00 a month.
Crazy!
Who can afford that?
@@irenedavo3768 Not me.. but the very wealthy and foolish.
@@larkatmic which is sometimes the same
@@larkatmic Why would wealthy lived on 57 floor ..makes more sense to live in house
You actually have a lot of space in your apartment and it's quite nice.
and commie media too
Thanks for the visit Robert. Lovely place & people for sure. I hope your family & baby are all doing great !
Beautiful apartment! The layout is different than a typical American apartment. I love how you and your wife have organized your home.
I never wanted to go to China. I went there for work and it was the most beautiful place I've ever been.
some would like to go to china, but the understand that they might just be thrown in prison if they say anything that's not to the liking of the commie government
@@vivianpang5096 Sadly this is true. I don't think I will ever make it back there. I wish I could ,but like a lot of places on earth these days travel isn't safe. I would have loved to take my children there.
@@jackmedcalf6254 Dont be that pessimistic dude
@@rbasket8 lol
The view of the temple and of the countryside is really pretty. I hope your family will still be using that camping gear after baby comes! It's pretty wild how that HUGE apt. is 400USD! I'm always surprised everytime I see anything about living in China. Thank you for sharing you your home with us.⭐
Ok I was going to ask hk$? Or usa $? Wow that is cheap compared to us here in California. Enjoy your son, much happiness to you new family! Take many photos! They grow up very quickly! We are only on the third floor but our son when little, lived to leap off anything! I'd be fencing in your 2nd outdoor patio to stop his spiderman or superman efforts! Wire screens fastened very well! Lots of luck to you and your wife and son! Yr of the water tiger. You will have many stories later! Ha ha!
@@sheilasullivan1950 USD, but 400 US in RMB is alot
Cant tell if this is sarcasm or not. Looks like a view of a modern dystopia
@@throngarastora7569 yeah for a country which is known for not enforcing their minimum wage which is barely 3 USD an hour 400 USD a month is a lot. that's around half your pay there. but i do know many jobs that pay over minimum wage in China and most jobs do pay over minimum wage... but i think for those kids who just started working and got minimum wage this is far off. but in America it's the same way so i can't complain.
@@sheilasullivan1950 the average salary in China is less than half than the average in usa. That's why the rent is way lower. I believe it would be even worse for foreigners because most jobs don't take in foreign people unless they really need you ie language teacher which don't get paid much. I was a software engineer there but it was only for the time they needed my expertise. Then they had no more use for me.
Thank you so much for giving insight into an apartment in China!!! The halls and so much look absolutely spotless. I'm so glad you added the night view. Now I want to see the bridge in the morning opening to let the water flow as well as a high speed train. Please post more! So curious and fascinated!!
I didn't know what to expect but I was impressed. It seems like lots of room except for where the toilet is. No knee room between the toilet and shower. THEN you show a second toilet.
That apartment would be at least $10,000 a month in New York, if not way more. Even in smaller midwestern cities it would be $1000 or more. What a great value for $400
Amazing views. Great apartment. Thanks for sharing. China is just a whole different world.
Beautiful place , I live in the USA and it’s very cool to see how things are done in other countries and $400 a month is great price of course depending on how much you make as a teacher, thanks for sharing this view.
I would say on average an English foreign teacher in china would spend about 10 - 30 % of their salary on rent. It would depend on the city they live in and the type of school they work in.
@@curious7188 Average salaries in Changsha don't seem that far off from Europe and America either, good on China for taking care of its people well. Affordable housing should be one of the top priorities of any government. I dread being highly educated in a 'rich' country and paying half my paycheck to rent without such wonderful view or space!
You know China is paying him for this video right...
@@estevesobel2762 no I don’t know , and I don’t care I’m never going to China , I just like to see how some people live in other countries
@@Mocha. id rather live in a country that doesn’t lock me in my house like in shanghai, but that’s just me
Nice video, pleasant host, accurate about middle class China. When I visited Tanlao (Inner Mongolia) and Shanhai the apartments where Chinese midle class people lived were spacious, thoughtfully deigned, and very nice. In Shanghai the was a very large central oval shaped courtyard surrounded by a number of apartment buildings. Nice place to run on a track or take a stroll or sit and read. There was also a play area for kids. In China I never met with any fellow Westerners, only Chinese people. They mostly all spoke English but when they didn't and I was a alone with them we could make ourselves understood and we could phone someone to translate a word or phrase. The college age guides were friendly and funny, good company.
the average chinese apartment is a moldy cement box that is dreary at best.
@@vivianpang5096 And most apartment buildings in china would collapse at the first sign of an earthquake
Very interesting, thank you for sharing your home. May your baby be healthy,and may you all have long healthy lives.
VERY nice ! 👏👏👏👏
Thank you for sharing.
Congratulations on your new baby !!! 😁
Congratulations on your new child! Best wishes to you and your family!
Can you imagine when the elevator goes out? Good grief.
Happy to hear your baby is coming soon. Wish your family the best!
yup, real pain during a fire
@@RSCB Fire in North American wooden apartment buildings is also a pain.
How lovely, a baby boy. Congratulations! And thanks for sharing this video. $400 for that apartment? They are renting monthly storage units for that here in the USA. LOL!
Very true! That's why I choose to live in a small town!
Yea in china the average man earns about 550$ a month
Essentially slave labor. Imagine living on $550 a month LMAO...
@@raiden72 Isn´t the Federal minimum wage in the US about $7.25?
@@lasuperchica59 yes, $7.50 beats the 2022 minimum hourly wage in Beijing (25.3 yuan per hour, $3.97). What is your point?
Beautiful with the clouds at the end. Apartment was very nice and affordable. Wishing you and your bride a happy and healthy baby. I hope this reaches you and those you love in great health and happiness❤️🙏😎
Wow! Nice! I love that view with the clouds. It was amazing.!❤😊
Just watched this. Beautiful apartment and that view is amazing. Congratulations on your little one!
What a lovely view! It's cool to think your baby must be almost one year old now
That's true, he is 10 months old and is very healthy and happy, a little naughty sometimes.
@@curious7188 Aw how sweet, I'm glad to hear it
I also cant imagine living that that high - above the clouds in the winter .. tell me , do you ever feel the building sway? I heard they can sway like six feet normally ? I'm not sure I could get past that. Best wishes to your family and thanks for sharing mate !
I have never felt the building sway, I think only steel structures can do that. To be honest when its really windy I do get a little nervous.
@@curious7188 you mean to tell me that building doesn’t have steel in it
@@hermanrogers1325 probably those steel that looks like twizzler 😅
as far as i know tall buildings like these supposed to have an "I-beam" steel frame as opposed to the rebar that looks like twizzler.
but we're talking about china where profits are priority over safety and everything there is substandard.
Literally my stomach was quezy at seeing how high the apt is. Very nice inside as long as you cannot see out and down 😀. I couldn't even go up that high and certainly not live and sleep there. I'm impressed.
@@hermanrogers1325 I has steel in it, its not like the Eiffel tower for example. Concrete cannot bend or it will break. I'm not an engineer, so I'm just guessing. I never recall the building swaying.
Wow very nice apartment, wonderful views, I love the nightscape, Beautiful, thank you for sharing.
Can't imagine being that high up when earthquakes hit would be very scary 😳 very nice apt and so much larger than all the mirco apartments that you hear about all over there . Thanks for sharing and congratulations on baby wishing you and wife best.
Quakes of the earth
Allow me bra, hate them tings
Congratulations to you and your wife. Bringing new life into the world. Enjoy every moment ❤❤🙋♀️ Hello from Ontario Canada
Wow! I live in a flat/apartment in England, water leaks through the ceilings, black mould in the corners and the bedroom is so small that i can nearly press both hands on the wall. The outside view is a brick wall.
England doesn't sound too nice for the average Joe person.
@@marblox9300London is very rich and where all the money is made but the money stays in London.
Everywhere else is mostly abandoned and everything is very old except Scotland. Most of England and Wales is pretty poor and run down.
Best way to describe it is imagine London as Germany or America but everywhere else in England is Bosnia or Kazakhstan.
Easily one of the poorest places to be in Europe outside of London. Even Poland, East Germany and Slovenia (former soviet countries) Their households have more money than us and we have pretty much no public transport and alot of our roads are very small because they are meant for horses and have many potholes and some are even gravel.
You just have to be optimistic to be here and just deal with it haha. It's not all negative because we do have some really beautiful places but 90% of it is abandoned factories and houses, empty shops and even in some very bad places people live in tents.
edit: i was on a bus a few months ago to go to the next town over which is about 12 miles away and the windows were cracked and had moss on them, metal was rusty and the door wasn't shutting properly so for every turn, water would slosh across the bus as it was raining and we were driving through very steep moorland/tundra.
This used to be a rich country many decades ago but only the main cities are rich now.
The sky don't lie.
Thank you so much! What a great insight to a nice apartment in China!
The view of the countryside with the houses below and the many skyscrapers in the background blew my mind! (around 8:02)
he's a propaganda guy
This was a cool tour. Thank you. And congratulations on the baby.
That's a great looking apartment! I could do some serious shortwave dxing from the 56th floor! The bathroom may be small but very efficiently laid out. Not bad for $400 a month! Thanks for showing it to us.
IN MIAMI FL. THIS IS 2.300. A MONTH! WAY OVER 2OOO! CAN'T AFFORD THAT. MANY CAN'T. 😩😩
You do realize he lives in China, right? You wouldn't get much 'serious' shortwaving done at all; they'd jam your signal with state sponsored folk music first, and if you persisted, they'd arrest you.
@@simplechronology2605 Even in China they can't jam every single frequency including the amateur radio bands (w/ SSB). Even during the height of the Cold War people in the Eastern Bloc were able to bypass jammed frequencies and sill pick up western stations such as VOA, Radio Free Europe, and the BBC since stations change their frequencies throughout the day and in response to changing atmospheric conditions. Jamming stations made it difficult but not impossible.
@@captainamericaamerica8090 What are you talking about, in Miami average salary is like 5000/month, in changsha it is about 600 bucks. You still can pay 2000 a month and will be left with 3000 if you have the average salary. Not even mentioning that this apartment he lives in is 20km from downtown too.
Terrifying to me. I like to live in a house, where there is a window in case I need to jump out due to fire. In the states, it's illegal to use a bbq in an apartment building on the porch.
I lived for 6 years in the third floor (of 3 floors) condo and couldn't even have an outdoor electric grill like a George foreman on our balcony cause of the fire hazard. Can't imagine having actual fire on the 56th floor!
Yeah, I wasn't feeling it either.
I am imagining 56 floors and 10- 20 apartments a floor. That building could have a hundred grills going on a weekend!
@@jerrya2006 haha obviously he is living on the very top floor of the building which have a big balcony that other floor dont have.
Great. Enjoy it. Good luck.
Thank you for showing me your apartment. Hello from Phoenix Arizona. USA. When you mentioned you were having a baby in 2 to 3 weeks I said a prayer for your baby. I hope him or her turns out to have a great healthy life.
Thanks you for this glimpse into your life. You seem like a happy chap. I hope that you and your young family are well.
This is not a typical apartment. It is most certainly a higher-end style of living. From what I have seen, the far majority of Chinese live at a much lower level. And certainly, there are apartments which are far more expensive in the bigger cities.
Lmao this apartment is not very luxurious even in China. It’s for middle class. Also Changsha is not really a « premium » city. A lot of apartments have higher standards this one is pretty old.
Congratulations on your son! Hope wife is well~ Thank you for sharing your apartment in China. Wow~It's large for $400. USD/month, and looks very comfortable! (I love a good lazy boy chair!) I'm afraid of heights, so could never live in a high rise building but can appreciate the views you have. Continued success in life for you and your family~
Being aware of the typical build quality there I would not be able to sleep in a building like that. Any pop or thud would have me searching for a parachute!
Me too.
There are obviously some real stories of buildings literally falling over, but considering that to be a normal risk of life is like wearing a lightning rod around for fear of getting struck by lightning. With all the construction in China, and as few nightmare stories as there have been where buildings have actually collapsed, that is not a rational fear.
The building quality issues usually come out in things like elevators that stop working, leaving you with a 20-minute wait for the remaining elevators to come all the way up that high; terrible water leakage that fills a place up with mold, or worse yet your upstairs neighbors hiring a substandard plumbing contractor and either dripping persistently into your apartment or actually flooding it; power service that was designed for a 20-story building, so it shuts off whenever there's too much demand... etc. That's where my fears would be lodged. I've never lived in a building THAT tall, but I have had those problems and many more in virtually every Chinese apartment I've ever lived in.
@@friscodog this video is a propaganda video anyway
@@dieselbaby As is with the U.S. too. All countries use propaganda.
I concur with you totally!
Thank you for the interesting tour of your lovely flat, that's very kind of you. I hope you, your wife and the toddler are doing well.
Best regards from the German Baltic coast 🌾🐟🐚
Extraordinary views! Wonderful apartment. It feels like a good home.
I love how spacious but convenient the apartment is. The spare bedroom could be baby's bedroom in the future. Everything looks amazing and the price is great!
Very, very nice apartment especially for the price! But I could never live that many floors up. What if there was a fire on any of the floors below me? Glad you are happy with it!
i thought the outhouse was a joke... until you opened the door :-D
I love your apartment. And the views are fascinating. Congratulations on the new baby, soon to arrive.
Nice apartment, beautiful view. Thank you for your generous video of showing your home.
Nice apartment, I like the view
In India such apartment rent will be atleast 1000$ & if it is Mumbai it can go up to 16000$.
Yes just one month rent...
Who can afford that?
@@irenedavo3768 rich people like actors, actress, business man, etc.. recently Madhuri Dixit an actress rented similer apartment at 1200000 Indian INR. i.e. 16000$ & that also not in so tall & old building.
@@ramehtag and politicians, drug dealers and thieves
1000$ is a strech. It's expensive but not what 1000$ is in market today.
You have a lovely home, but I must say, my anxiety level shot up when you took us out onto the balcony. Looking out the window when you're that high is nice, but when you can actually fall? Oh heck no! I would be terrified to have a child anywhere near that.
Looks like a blessing to be grateful for! Thanks for sharing!
It truly is amazing view.
Idk about "typical". Looks kind of luxurious.
They hooked him up with a living, transportation, and job security. Perks of being a foreign teacher
That’s not very luxurious in China. This is slightly above average. A 400usd rent is not expensive for most Chinese worker that studied in university and graduated
The places for the wealthier people and upper class are the mansions that we can see in the video. The rich want to be in an downtown apartment(he is far far away from it) or in a big mansion like here. If this apartment was located downtown it would be considered luxurious
I'm quite surprised by the price for such a nice apartment. That view alone is worth more than the rent!
Subsidized by slave labor (no joke)
That is a very nice view!
Oh wow that was so refreshing to watch, what a nice apartment and views!
A very peaceful area. Like like a good place for nice walks along the river.
What a surprisingly nice apartment. I would not be comfortable living so high up as I'm quite scared of heights. The bed in the guest bedroom is so close to the window if you left it open at night you could roll over and plunge to your death in your sleep.
I think gravity might wake you up 😂
"Let's put a toilet in the balcony." Great idea!
Best comment!😂
How many social credits to use the elevator?
Thank you for sharing I found it interesting. God bless you and your family. May your baby be happy, healthy, and smart.
Very cool. Seems so peaceful and quite living that high up. You can barely hear the traffic below.
I feel this is not a typical Chinese apartment especially since you said you live in an area full of mansions.
It is $400/month one, take it or leave it. There are forests of similar looking apartment buildings in China
Thank you very much for the tour of your wonderful home. I love the wood doors. They are quite different than most interior doors here in US. You have a lot of space. You will need it when baby comes and begins to grow! I appreciate knowing what apartments are like in your area. Blessings on you and your family. Hope you keep making videos, whenever you can😊
We definitely don’t take our doors as seriously as they do.
That height is insane…
Sup Sayilu, yea the whole building is 61 stories tall.Its the tallest building in the region. Sometimes when there is strong wind I get nervous the building will fall over.
That is such a neat floor plan and apartment and the view is incredible. Best of luck with your baby.
Wonderful views and nice apartment.
Thank you- very interesting to see how people live in China. Like some others have commented, I fear heights and could not live on 56th floor-too scary for me. Best of luck.😊
how is middle class $400 USD a month?
Many people in China survive on a couple of dollars a day
In Orlando it is no less than 700 a month
This may blow your mind, but things can be cheaper in other countries. I live in Zhuhai China, and my apartment is twice the size of this guys, and only $585 a month. i make roughly half the salary i made in America, but i only work 22 hours a week teaching here, and yet i am banking about two thousand USD a month, after expenses, eating out daily, and buying whatever i want. and as for the comment of being poor, the people in this part of town are all driving teslas, bmws, and mercedes to the three malls within half a mile of my house. its nuts.
The goverments are more prone to control rent, it can hamper growth if you have much speculation and greedy landlords.
A similar apartament in Hangzhou Can bring you Up to 1000-1200 USD/ month. In shanghai Even more. In South china or west china cities maybe less than this. So it all depends. Is not about the area or city sometime. Is about the community type in which you are .....high value communities in same area can be the price more high. ! All depends !
“Here is my air conditioning, it runs on electricity.” What else would it run on??
I'm surprised gas hobs are allowed in a high rise. Nice flat though. You could keep supper fit by using the stairs, I think 6 floors would kill my joints.
Congrats on a new baby. May GOD bless you and your family.
I always wonder about the safety of buildings in China.
Question is there any sprinkler systems in that building?
No they just use the contents of the outhouse to douse it out
@@raiden72 I only wish that renter and his family would see your comment and truly understand what that means , if the fire don't get you the smoke truly will.
@@retiredsquad7716 but just to play devil's advocate, I see a fire hose in the hallways and potentially roof sprinklers at the start of this video. I assume they have the safety feature built into this new building, but most of the older skyscrapers will be sus.
@@raiden72 something is better than nothing
$400 /mon Certainly good value for money!
I don't understand why people talk so much sh** about China, I don't think is that bad. As long you are comfortable in a place where you live and happy with the people around you~ Just enjoy living!!
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No central heating, no hot water in the kitchen. Would you live there?
@@gigiw.7650 No central heating > go buy a heater, no hot water > hire an electrician to connect it!!
@@katerinadicamella
Really? W/o Central Heating you can never get warm! I know a couple that had an apartment in China and no they didn't hire a plumber! Probably couldn't be done. Elevators rarely work, etc etc.
That's why people bag on China!
@@gigiw.7650 Have you ever considered that maybe, just maybe they're not living in a pristine condition apartment block? Every country in the world has some shitty apartment blocks but we don't judge from that.
@@gigiw.7650 LOL. I live in the US and I have no central heating and no hot water in the kitchen. Seriously. You talk like it's not survivable. I guess the westerners idea of unbearable hardship.
Nice apartment, great view; good that it comes with furniture,kitchen that hasall the white goods. Love the bbq area
Your apartment is very nice and has fabulous views.
$400 for a high-rise two bedroom apartment with an awesome view? Unbelievable. When I lived in Center City Philadelphia I paid $2700/month for that 😂 and I was only in the 7th floor 😆
China has absolutely not building codes. Everything is cheap. Those building fall down every day an the developers don't get screwed. It's a dangerous place. Also just because it's 400$ american dose not mean that's cheap. It's very hard to come by even 100$ a month job. They are over populated and living on top of one another literally. Unfortunately the east coast is horrible with price gouging an pretending the city's are rich. Many people fleeing those shit holes just the same. So uncomfortable to have no privacy, space or air to breath it's trash city lol
This is China, The average wage here is $1000 a month, why do people like to compare china to average western countries? Check out China insight on youtube to know the real life the chinese experience in China.
Well he's basically in the suburbs in a tier 2 (3?) city. The rent in a tier 1 city closer to city center is 5 - 10x that price.
@@SkyfalconTin yeah I lived in China that's not true at all. I stayed there for five years. There is class system. An most people barely make 10$- 100$ usd. If you talking RMB/CNY then sure thats 1000¥. I even get exchange rate of 1$ for 20¥ now that the Chinese economy is falling apart. But you can brearly get anything good for 1000¥. Like this dude's apartment is a shit hole. Barely 1000sqf. That's not middle class that's third world country shit. All you propagate such lies of what real Chinese go threw. I think you should realize more people live in boxes the size of this guy's kitchen in China, this is not being a "typical" apartment in China. It's really not. An people who know, know.
@@jizzstain4458 he pointed out that the water is not cleaned and if you look at the air quality there also not great. The whole place is hazard. Not to mention the quality of the building. I heard they called building in china “tofu building”. Not to recommend having children. For him, he probably have to say something good about China or else the CCP probably will arrest him. As you mention he RMB, I heard China banks stealing people money.
I lived in China for a number of years in newer apartments and different cities and provinces and that apartment is WAY better than what my wife and I had. That is not “typical” by any sense of the word.
He said middle class.
You must be living in an expensive city or expensive district.
move to cheaper cities.
@@Commievnthey were not expensive cities by any means. They were in the middle of the country 300 kilometers from Wuhan and two hours from Shenyang.
ugh, I live in the country and love the open space and freedom, I could never live in a place like that, so high up, all that concrete, too many people...The fact you have to take an elevator just to leave or get to your living space scares me so bad, I don't trust elevators even if I have to use it only once, I get so much anxiety watching this lol
If you are wealthy, you can live like that. But for $400, this is pretty good.
Grow up.
Random video that popped up in my feed, I'm glad I watched! Thanks for the tour of your home, I absolutely would love to live there! I've never lived in the city but with that view, I could be tempted to move!
Nice! Great view and cool apartment. I'd live there in a heartbeat.
That building is scary specially if there would be an earthquake!😲
or fire? that barbecue ?
Thought the same as China is very prone to natural disasters
Or Godzilla 😏
The building will fall. The more chinese people die in China, the bigger the celebration
@@justaguy8893 Godzilla has a Japan bias.
nice video. great apartment, the cost is amazing for that place, the views and location, a great deal looking from the outside in. congrats on the addition to the family. thanks for the video visit. me being from the u.s.a. doesnt get to see to much real china living conditions and standards. we only hear more about the stereotypes that people have passed around for years and years. to sleep above the clouds would be interesting. i dont get that whole outhouse thing, when you said it i figured thats what you called an outside shed, nope a real outhouse on the 56th floor, very unusual. well thanks and good wishes to you and the family.
right!? LOLZ
this is the first time i have seen an outhouse in an apartment, kinda weird
Nice apartment and i think you are a very interesting person and also a nice teacher.
Wow! Diese Aussicht ist spektakulär. Danke für das Video