Re:I hate living in my tiny house
by scythe on Sunday October 06, 2019 @08:45PM
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To add to this, I stayed in a family apartment in Wuhan for a month last year. The place had three bedrooms, a washing machine & a full kitchen in about 100 m^2. Wuhan metro is about the size of Los Angeles (20M) and the cost was maybe an eighth of LA’s price for that kind of thing. Some of that can be explained by labor cost and legitimate environmental regulations, but Americans don’t make 8x what Chinese make.
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> Americans don’t make 8x what Chinese make.
You're right, they make "only" 7x as much.
US Median Income: $43,585 China M.I.: $6,180
http://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/median-income-by-...
Wuhan median is $34k and $65k in LA.
34k CNY, each of which is .14 USD
https://www.averagesalarysurvey.com/wuhan-china
In USD really. Unsurprisingly, people living in a large city in China are not dirt poor as you would expect.
You need government data sources to get decent information here.
China reports Shanghai as the highest income city with an average salary of 9,700 yuan/month.
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201904/10/WS5cad86f7a3104842...
Even the median income comparison is probably too favourable - Wuhan and LA are apples to oranges. I'm sure LA is one of the higher-income cities in the US, and Wuhan is one of the lower.
LA actually isn't super high. Median income is only about 2/3rds of the real top cities (DC suburbs have a median of almost $100k, LA is more like $60)
Re:I hate living in my tiny house
by PhasmaFelis on Sunday October 06, 2019 @09:11PM
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That probably doesn't accurately reflect the income difference between LA and Wuhan. Large parts of China are still effectively the third world. Urbanites in America make more than rural folks, but the difference is less drastic.