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’ : world@quokk.au

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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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago*

Now I’m making closer to $3,500 a month, plus roughly $1,200 a month from my side gigs.

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[–] albbi@piefed.ca 9 points 5 months ago

How much social credit score is an article like this worth?

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[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Is $1000 rent supposed to be low? My mortage is half of that.

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 4 points 5 months ago

I Know ppl in america who have 2k usd rent for 1 bedroom. It's crazy. If you didnt buy house before covid you are screwed.

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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 2 points 5 months ago

It's half what a studio apartment costs in some places.

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[–] simone@lemmy.org 3 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Lies

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[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

What exactly do you think the lie is? That he's not living his dream and secretly hates living in China? 1000USD for rent seems high, he must be in the middle of Shanghai or something. I'm in Guangzhou right now btw.

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