The grocery thing is probably the universal experience when moving from a country where the average person has a high disposable income to low. There are simply more choices.
The grocery thing is probably the universal experience when moving from a country where the average person has a high disposable income to low. There are simply more choices.
I mean, if you are traveling as a tourist, things seem cheap, but to a local who works there, maybe not.
Westerners always say China is very cheap to visit, but as a former Guangzhou resident, when I was a kid, my parents had to work all the time and I rarely got to spend time with them. And we lived in a very shitty slum neighborhood. Locals don’t really share the same experience.
I think the people who are on work visas are just doing English teaching, very comfortable job, or maybe even some “White Monkey Job” that pays a lot.
Most Chinese people cannot teach English… so there’s that…
Wait I thought this was about Brazil and the USA. I know there are shopping malls in some big tier one cities that are primarily aimed for tourists and that’s another story but I meant local grocery stores outside the big cities and then compare that between Brazil and USA or some other lower disposal income country than the US
The grocery thing is probably the universal experience when moving from a country where the average person has a high disposable income to low. There are simply more choices.
I mean, if you are traveling as a tourist, things seem cheap, but to a local who works there, maybe not.
Westerners always say China is very cheap to visit, but as a former Guangzhou resident, when I was a kid, my parents had to work all the time and I rarely got to spend time with them. And we lived in a very shitty slum neighborhood. Locals don’t really share the same experience.
I think the people who are on work visas are just doing English teaching, very comfortable job, or maybe even some “White Monkey Job” that pays a lot.
Most Chinese people cannot teach English… so there’s that…
Wait I thought this was about Brazil and the USA. I know there are shopping malls in some big tier one cities that are primarily aimed for tourists and that’s another story but I meant local grocery stores outside the big cities and then compare that between Brazil and USA or some other lower disposal income country than the US