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Re:Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures by dan-robertson on Sunday April 27, 2025 @06:46AM (#43810921)
What does ‘comparable’ mean? Is it about ratios between incomes and costs? Or cost of the same apartment in two places? Or something else?
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Re:Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures by markus_zhang on Sunday April 27, 2025 @07:02AM (#43811018)
Cost/income is a good ratio. The megacities (Shanghai, Shenzhen etc.) probably have a ratio similar to New York.

Just from top of my head as I left Shanghai 10 years ago, a typical condo in Shanghai could cost over 5 million yuan (urban but definitely not core city), while a salary of 300k pre-tax is considered as a good salary.

On the other side, housing is affordable for locals -- locals usually got very generous compensation from the demolition of their original home.

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Re:Chongqing, the Largest City – In Pictures by chgs on Sunday April 27, 2025 @07:04AM (#43811029)
Median monthly cost in terms of median take home pay would be the sensible comparison.

This would exclude ex-pats.

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