Name: Why I moved to Shenzhen, China
Uploaded: 2017-11-22T07:38:43.000Z
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Why did I choose to live in Shenzhen. There are quite a few reasons.

But the first and probably the most important reason is that Shenzhen is a

and I've been getting a lot of questions about

the tier system because I do mention it in my videos. I mentioned, you know, Shenzhen being first-tier. Huizhou being second

And so I thought I'd talk about the differences between you know first-tier city and say for instance a third-tier city in China.

Alright. What's up guys. We're out here with Winston and Prozzie. Stay Awesome!

So I'm here with a friend of mine who happens to live in a third-tier city.

So I thought we just discuss what the difference is between living in say for instance Shenzhen and

let's kind of try to explain the whole tier thing to you first. There are only four "first-tier" cities in China.

That would be Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

That's it. Everybody thinks there's more, but there's not.

Those are the best cities, means, it's got the most modern infrastructure.

It's got like for instance, there's a stock exchange here in Shenzhen.

There's one in Shanghai, and they're quite a few things that qualified as being first here that basically means

Prozzie: The highest quality of cities. I guess you could say. First-world.

Yeah, there we go. There are a bunch of new cities

that are kind of on a waiting list to become first-tier and who knows by the end of this video

I wanted you to start off by just explaining to everybody what it's like living in a third-tier city,

which is Huizhou, and then we can do some comparisons.

Prozzie: Yeah. I mean living living in a city like Huizhou

you're not going to get all of the sort of western amenities that you're so used to here in Shenzhen.

Every time I come here. I feel a bit spoiled like we just had a nice lunch thing.

You're not going to get that in a third-tier city.

It's a lot more, as a foreigner anyways, you're going to feel a lot more

I guess you could say uh. What's the word I'm looking for?

Winston: When you mean in the first-tier or third-tier?

Prozzie: Third-tier. You feel a lot more like "isolated" I guess.

The foreign community is a lot more tight-knit everyone kind of knows each other.

You know, someone does something, everyone knows about it. It's very

"small townie-ish", I guess, because there's less foreigners there. It's perceived as quite a bit "smaller".

Yeah, I mean living in a city like Huizhou also a lot less regulated.

I find then Shenzhen. Shenzhen is very... you guys get like

"regulated" I guess in a weird way. Which I know for you it might not seem like that.

Prozzie: Yeah, but in a Huizhou. I mean, you know, you can ride motorcycles, but then it's also kind of illegal.

I could go on for days the differences between, I mean, you know you've been to Huizhou

Winston: I mean. Yeah. It is a gray area sort of a thing.

It's more like the wild west. You can get away with a lot. Like for instance,

you said, riding a bike when it is currently illegal in Huizhou you go can

and as long as you just kind of avoid certain areas. You'll get away with it.

You can kind of do stupid things that you wouldn't be able to do here. Prozzie: Oh definitely,

Winston: So you've got that extra freedom, but it comes at a cost and the cost is that everything's kind of chaotic and rundown, you know.

Prozzie: Yeah, I mean, that's one thing...

I don't really like about living in Huizhou is that you're gonna get a lot of

just lower quality things and I mean everything. The buildings are falling apart

I shouldn't say. I sound horrible if I say that but... Winston: A little less civilized.

Prozzie: Yeah, well, yeah. A little less civilized. A little less...ah...

Winston: It's just the fact. People, you can say what you want, but you come here yourself

you come and spend a day in Huizhou, and you spend a day in Shenzhen. You'll see people are more sophisticated here.

Prozzie: Yeah. You know it comes down to money as well, people in Shenzhen obviously make...

Prozzie: Usually make quite a bit more money than people in Huizhou.

Winston: you have to and that's another thing

we should talk about is cost of living now. That's a big plus for you.

I mean. Tell me how big is your apartment and how much do you spend?

Prozzie: Ah... Jesus. I don't know how big it is.

Winston: Would you say it's bigger than 100 square meters?

Prozzie: I've only got one bedroom, but it's a decent size apartment. I've got my living room.

I've got a separate kitchen and a separate bathroom

and it's nice, and it's in the most expensive part of Huizhou in the kind of "New Development Area".

1,800 RMB (185 USD) every month right and that's the top, the tippy top, that you're going to get for a

normal apartment. Of course you can get some crazy five-star apartments but that's like the top your gonna get for a normal apartment.

What do..ah.. what would you pay here in Shenzhen?

Winston: Okay. I got a 45 square meter apartment. It's tiny.

Basically it's the size of most people's kitchen. You know maybe smaller. It's tiny. It's horrible. I can't stand it. It's badly lit.

You know. There's like one window in the bedroom.

Living room. The kitchen doesn't even have a place bigger than, like, this to prepare food on. It's terrible.

And it's rundown, and it's crap but it's in one of the best areas. So for that 45 square meter apartment

I'm getting a good deal. I'm paying 4,500 RMB (662 USD) a month.

That's only because my wife knows the owner but usually they go for about six to eight thousand for those tiny little places.

Prozzie: That's one of the reasons why I chose Huizhou. Third-tier city is so much cheaper.

But you're paying for what you get for, right? Like you're gonna pay quite a bit more money... quite a bit more money

but you live in the better parts of town.

There's a nice supermarket, shopping malls, access to the subway straightaway. So yeah, it makes up for it.

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