As China’s property market craters and youth unemployment rises, burned-out young professionals are fleeing megacities for ultracheap housing in remote towns.
  • Reddit_was_fun@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    44·
    26 days ago

    Wow crazy stuff. She saved up nearly 300kusd and rent is just over a 100usd a month. Whole apartments from 3k to 13k.

    Retired and now does online yoga to pay the bills!

    Good work. FIRE china style!

  • Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    30·
    26 days ago

    This could be us if we let our housing bubble pop, but the people in charge will never let that happen. Can’t have people being able to afford to live working 20 hours a week, wouldn’t be generating nearly enough profits for our masters.

    • msage@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      25 days ago

      It’s been repeatedly proven that lowering the weekly hours improves productivity.

      So keeping the pressure is purely for fun.