The cost of living and housing in China is forcing young people to move out of megacities
This article is terrible. There’s literally only one statistic and two people interviewed.
Regardless, if it’s true that tier 2 cities are seeing a much higher population increase, it is an objectively good thing if it can be matched with decent quality development to accomodate the new residents. You don’t want a situation like India where there are 8-12 tier 1 cities (tier 1 by India’s standards lol) which see constant influx of precarious migrant workers and grow by the way of unmanaged sprawl and slums sort of like a tumour. The population in China is going to become more urban proportionally for many years still. It is better if there are more cities than fewer.
I tried adding the text but grad wond let me for some reason. Probably the billion links and pictures of the article.
From what I’ve read, its a typical chauvinist article portraying china as the heartless cyberpunk hellhole. From what i’ve heard actual chinese and western people who’ve been to china say, it is great to live there in general and although nothing in life will or needs to be perfect, china comes much closer than any other place on earth and by a huge margin compared to the west.
The thing with El Pais is that its politics are that of Spanish pro-NATO EU shagging socdem dog, that condemns also any form of 21st socialism in Latin America
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-china-deflation-cost/
So prices are simultaneously rising too fast and also dropping too fast?
Yeah, this is like utterly bullshit.
Housing prices in china have generally been on the decline since 2021. Really there hyper focusing on like down town motherfucking tier one city apartments despite the fact that chinas infrastructure is so advanced that is is more than possible for someone to live in the cheaper outskirts of town and simply commute by train or bus into the city (this is fairly common in like Hong Kong, onto where living in the city is fucking awful but the wages there aren’t that bad, hence most people simply live in nearby Shenzhen and NOT bamboo scaffolding city )
