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And here's me escaping the west along with my neighbors escaping China, none of us have had a rental price rise in 4 years. We live only a few hundreds metres f

And here's me escaping the west along with my neighbors escaping China, none of us have had a rental price rise in 4 years. We live only a few hundreds metres from the beach and even closer to vibrant national parks. What would you all pay for such a thing? I'm ashamed of how little it actually costs, you can't even rent a car park in my old city for the same amount. If this really is hacker news then you can either find somewhere good to live with a bit of searching or you aren't particularity good at hacking the basics of life.

colordrops 3y ago
Do you have children?
- Grimburger 3y ago
  No but many of the other transplants here do, they seem to survive fine. It's very strange to see a 12yo kid who was born in the anglosphere being able to speak 3 languages fluently.
  - colordrops 3y ago
    Where are you? Southeast Asia?
    - Grimburger 3y ago
      Why does it matter?
moltar 3y ago
Where did you move?
- Grimburger 3y ago
  I don't answer that question anymore because I know the exact response it entails. All that matters is that I'm happy as a migrant from the west, I go home to visit family/friends regularly and who are always stressed with long commutes and up to their necks in debt in cities that are overflowing with population growth. I truly worry for my nephews and nieces there, we've created a rough world for the kids. There's plenty of good things from my home country that I appreciate but for the average person life isn't that great considering their net worth on global scale. When suicide rates are on par with Japan it's somewhat comical to see the city I grew up in on the "top ten greatest places to live" stats that come out every year. If you took the median house price from where I'm from and put it into a basic savings account you could have $60k USD annually. That goes a very long way across most of the planet, is the house actually worth that much or is it a mass delusion? Know plenty who have gotten out while the going is good.

colordrops 3y ago

Do you have children?

Grimburger 3y ago
No but many of the other transplants here do, they seem to survive fine. It's very strange to see a 12yo kid who was born in the anglosphere being able to speak 3 languages fluently.
- colordrops 3y ago
  Where are you? Southeast Asia?
  - Grimburger 3y ago
    Why does it matter?

moltar 3y ago

Where did you move?

Grimburger 3y ago
I don't answer that question anymore because I know the exact response it entails. All that matters is that I'm happy as a migrant from the west, I go home to visit family/friends regularly and who are always stressed with long commutes and up to their necks in debt in cities that are overflowing with population growth. I truly worry for my nephews and nieces there, we've created a rough world for the kids. There's plenty of good things from my home country that I appreciate but for the average person life isn't that great considering their net worth on global scale. When suicide rates are on par with Japan it's somewhat comical to see the city I grew up in on the "top ten greatest places to live" stats that come out every year. If you took the median house price from where I'm from and put it into a basic savings account you could have $60k USD annually. That goes a very long way across most of the planet, is the house actually worth that much or is it a mass delusion? Know plenty who have gotten out while the going is good.