Yes,it definitely was like that in the very beginning. Some couples were choosing to fly to Hong Kong and have their second child there but if your second child

Yes,it definitely was like that in the very beginning. Some couples were choosing to fly to Hong Kong and have their second child there but if your second child does not have PRC citizenship, you then have to pay more for education, healthcare and so on. So to a certain extent it is a higher cost of living for a second child. But now the policies have changed, I don't know if this is what's holding couples back anymore.