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36-year-old left the U.S. for China—now pays $1,000 rent and $100 for groceries for family of 4: It's my 'version of the American Dream’ (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I think he's converting everything to USD as he never says anything about Chinese Yuan. Also the cost of things seems to align with him converting the currency.

The crazy thing is he talks about the affordability, but he makes over 4x the average/median salary for the city. That would be like making $400k/year in New York City or almost $500k/year in San Fransico. Now maybe that money wouldn't go as far in the US, but when you're making that much money any place would seem good.

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