Comment by aurareturn
2 months ago
It's relative. Relative to the rest of the world (and China), you can still live comfortably on minimum wage.
2 months ago
It's relative. Relative to the rest of the world (and China), you can still live comfortably on minimum wage.
You can still live comfortably on US minimum wage if your cost of living is like in China?
Not just cost of living is lower, but standard of living is too. I know people in China who had full-time jobs but would recover meat from other people's rubbish to eat, or who lived illegally in a garage. That's homeless-level lifestyle for America and doesn't require any job at all.
It depends on where you are. Metropolitans and provincial capitals are expensive, but some smaller cities are cheaper. But then the public service is worse and you kinda want to live closer to bigger cities. I don't know how much $$ you are talking about, but it's easy to figure that out if you can give me a city in mind and I can check the cost for you.
What question is this? With a US minimum wage with China CoL you are rich.
Definitely not in the major cities, like Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, and Guangzhou.
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