i just want to explain once and for all, that i am not showing you the "average" cost of living in this video, but rather a bit more comfortable level of living. I would never live in a $500 condo with cockroaches and an open shower, this is why i would rather "overpay" for my own comfort.
@@simple2125 of course there is, even more luxury than the one she got, I have seen and I know ppl who lives in more luxury apartments than this kpop girl, and the monthly bill is only around $700
What?! I've lived in Shanghai in recent years in about $700 apartment on Middle Huaihai Road and it was so much better than this apartment (and even if the prices are higher now, it could be around $1,000 maximum). And NO, there were no cockroaches and open shower or whatever. Also, you could rent an entire house with a yard with that $3,000 on French Concession in Shanghai. LOL, this video must be sarcasm or she got her sugar daddy spending some cash.
Sorry to tell you, but as some born in Hong Kong and Grew up in beijing and currently living in SanliTun, I must tell you, you are still most certainly overpaying for your condo. 3000 usd or around 21000 rmb will almost get you a whole fully renovated Si He Yuan(basically a beijing style high end villa, almost because the good ones do cost a few thousand yuan more than 21k), fully furnished. If you want a nice newer apartment with renovation and furnishing, this price will get you a 130+ m2 high end condo in prime locations. And condotels (like the one you staying) and the worst way to stay in a place long term, its usually for people who will be living in a city long enough for not wanting to pay day by day at a hotel, but not long enough for a full 6 month or 1 year contract.
do you have recommendations for how to find a rent in Beijing for foreigners? I used ziroom and wellcee but couldnt find anything similar to Aina's at a reasonable price.
@@purezzuh you have to use chinese websites like 58同城 or 安居客 or 房天下（just copy and paste these in google）, google translate the site to browse and choose a couple ones you want to see(becareful some of the listings are not real, there is an option to see only confirmed real listings) and then ask a friend to go with you so you dont get scammed. If you don't have a friend who speaks chinese and you dont speak chinese, hire a part time college student who does english home tutoring as a translator, should only cost you 100 dollars or something.
Dude, she lives not only 10 min from Beijing city centre, but it is a Hyatt Hotel & Apartment building. So of course it is expensive, much more than the average apartment.
I lived for 5 years and my wife is Chinese, so I can say she is highly exaggerating about trash apartments and her high level cost apartment. For 3k $ you can buy 3 apartments for 20 years loan. I was thinking to buy there and did some research but changed my mind.
Agreed. She is greatly exaggerating. I lived in Shanghai for four years before I moved to a smaller city. My rent was the equivalent of US$1100. It was a small studio apartment in the middle of the FCC. So a very nice neighborhood and beautiful (yet tiny) apartment in an elevator building with a beautiful view. You don’t have to spend $3000 on an apartment in Shanghai that’s just what she wanted. Now I’m living in a smaller city (3.5 hours drive from Shanghai)and I spend the equivalent of US$500 per month. I have a three bedroom two bath apartment and it’s not trash.🤦🏾♀️
I live in Beijing right by a subway station 15 minutes from Sanlitun and pay 7300 rmb for a modern, renovated hutong apartment with floor heating. For 9-10,000 a hutong siheyuan with two bedrooms could have been mine-well under $2K. I pay just under $1K USD. You are definitely getting a premiere experience, though! This is the equivalent of living on the Upper East side of NYC & saying that all NYC apartments cost $10,000.
Lizzy lives in Kunming for $300 a 2bedroom. Chengdu (#5 city in all of China) have the same for $500, probably condo association fees of $85 is added. City ring2 add $200, ring1 add $400 if the total move in cost+deposit is higher than the 4months rent you thought you were to pay for then you know something was wrong with the lease agreement.
Hahah it’s not really a hotel, it’s still an apartment. Yeah it’s expensive if you want a comfy place. I’ll be explaining more in the next videos about real estate!
you have a misaderstanding about rent in china obviously,of course it is expensive if you live in the central beijing,where is the most expensive place in whole china,@@ainatea
The trick is to hire a local (i.e., a citizen who's rented at least a couple times) to find a great apartment as if for themself when talking to rental agents and landlords. Expats should not go it alone. I have a water boiler in the US, they're not that uncommon, but definitely not the norm. I love your view, and envy that you got a bath!
I got a recommendation once from my friend and that’s how I got scammed for ¥28,000 in Shanghai 😂 I went there with my friend to see an apartment actually
@@ainatea oh no! Well for me I got my interpreter/translator/maid to do it so she presumably assumed that her continued employment depended on it working out, as she was living there too (in her own bedroom, of course, although a few weeks in....)
Yes!!! I befriended a local agent and he has been a GODSEND. However for foreigners who are fearful of this, Ziroom will offer similar deals for literally half as much. Edited to add: oh no! I saw in your caption that you tried to use Ziroom. Respectfully, I have a foreign friend who has used them for years and literally just got an apartment with them for 5500 rmb last month! I’m so sorry it didn’t work out for you. I will remove my recommendation for Ziroom in other comments since you already tried them.
Rent in a serviced apartment like this. It is often the choice of business people who only stay for a month or two. So this is definitely the most expensive option. More realistically, a similarly sized 45-square-foot house across the street from this location would cost about $1,500 a month. Let's forget about Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen，any provincial capital in China has pretty good living conditions.When I heard her say that maybe only 1% of Chinese households have a bathtub... I feel so funny, China is not India.
@@AntNvrt lol I'm reminded of that American guy who visited Natasha from the Yeah Russia channel.. American men are so touch starved and p word deprived they'll go the ends of the earth to harrass some woman on the internet
I can not say the same. I lived in Xiamen and Shenzhen in a nice appartment for 300 and 500 Euro per months very modern. Western Style. Beijing and Shanghai are more expensive. But for me there is no reason (only job and love to live in this city), because Shenzhen, Xiamen etc. are much beautiful and much hotter the whole year.
I live in Beijing and pay 7300 rmb for a small but nicer spot (similar square footage but better kitchen) in center Dongcheng. She lives on the east side. You could get a nice place for 8-11K. Fyi
Quite sure those expats who are saying it is cheap simply have normal standards and aren't as demanding. The vast majority of people on this planet live on the outskirts of cities. City center prices are absurd almost everywhere in the world. By the way if the bathroom is so horrible you can usually just fix it up for moderate cost. Some advice: Unless your income is so high that you can save about as much as you pay for rent don't be so demanding...
Apologies, but this is not the case here. I live in the center of Beijing (the neighborhood is Dongcheng) and pay the equivalent of $1000-1050 USD. She lives in the hip area of Beijing where foreigners go to play and the CBD is south and in the middle of the two of us. I have an acquaintance living in an identical serviced apartment in her neighborhood who pays 11,000 rmb (roughly half 3K USD). This young woman is simply being taken advantage of/prefers to live at a Hyatt Hotel, which is absolutely her right. But it is NOT because central Beijing is insanely expensive.
莹莹 rented 3month short term in Chongqing as she owns an apt in Shanghai that is getting renovated, I think she handle the negations good, she paid 200yuan/month more for short term: 2200yuan month plus one-time 770yuan agency fee. She did end taking the high floor apt as it has much better view youtube: In order to save travel expenses, I want to rent a house in Chongqing
You are actually staying long term in a hotel, they are supply you with towels and bathroom amenities. You didn't say but are they also regularly changing your bed sheets and cleaning the apartment?
I mean you live in the CBD obv your apartment is gonna be $3000... Also I worked in 东单 around the 新天地mall the rent there have always been expensive. My buddy rented out his apartment in 簋街 it was around 2500. However, if you moved to 大望路 which isn't even that far as the train station is there, your rent would be like down to 1500 - 2000.
Wow $3K for all that?! i gotta get one.. try that here in Los Angeles would cost u $4-5K+ in a building/downtown like that for something smaller too.. also Sanlitun looks amazing now i haven't been back in some years
Great video! in my country we dont have air purifiers, cause we dont need them and they are quite expensive and we also miss these types of mobile applications to control electrical devices. SOme people have them of course, but its almost exclusively for well off people.
To share, I have been a real estate agent in Las Vegas for 32 years. The mortgage payment at 2.87% interest, and association fees, as I live in a gated community total $1788. With landscape, sewer and trash, that would be another $80 per month, or that my complete payment for everything for a nearly 2000 square foot home with 3 bedrooms, an office, and a reasonably large backyard would be about $1868 per month. I paid $300,000 for this home, and when I finish the renovations in the next few months will be into it for about $345,000, and likely in three years or so it is worth about $525,000. Yes, this isn't Beijing, but it is pretty similar to Palm Springs, and it is amazing as within one mile there are three major grocery stores, movie theaters, and if you expand the radius to two miles, maybe 100 different restaurants. If your travels ever take you to Las Vegas, and you are interested in some real estate or economic data, do let me know. I was surprised to hear that only 1% of homes in China have bathtubs, as pretty close to 100% of the homes in the US do. Also, I don't think I could handle that squat toilet. Good wishes for you.
Hi! I lived in Vegas as a teacher for 6 years and lived in Centennial Hills! I live in Beijing now and have a Western toilet & bathroom with a nicer kitchen, in-floor heating & I am right next to a subway station for literally $1000 USD. If I were going to pay $3000 USD I’d go back to my Centennial Hills condo! It’s up to like $2K now with utilities (I checked)… so please don’t believe everything you see online 😅. This woman is paying the equivalent of someone in Vegas at one of the Aria serviced apartments.
@@abbyabroad Thank you for sharing of your experiences from Centennial Hills to Beijing. I hope that things are well for you in Beijing, and my only concern (which you might be able to correct, is with air quality, albeit as you know we have had many days in Vegas with smoke from California fires). I am glad to hear you have a regular toilet, and that some of the content or perspective on this video is not quite as portrayed. As you observed, housing here dramatically increased, with interest rates approximately tripling in less than 3 years. Being in real estate since 1991, I am aware of the insane high rents and I feel terribly for working people just trying to be able to afford a condo or apartment, while purchasing a basic home here that was built within the last 30 years likely has payments in the $3300 range, when just a few years ago, as with me payments would have been about half of that. Thank you for writing and I wish you the very best in Beijing.
Don’t try to tell the world China is expensive to live in if you live in the same building as a five star hotel, 3000usd for that, I will not pay 10k rmb for that. I know many friends living in Beijing and I can tell you they live in much better apartments for much cheaper than that. You do not even have a proper fridge or kitchen. I don’t live in Beijing, but I can tell you I live in a four room two bedroom apartment with central air and underfloor heating for under 1000usd that is 6000rmb and I get 8700rmb housing allowance. My apartment is next to Sam’s club and an amazing park. If you want to make videos like this tell the truth, and break down how much money you make etc and what things cost, not only say oh I live in a 3000usd apartment.
that’s the kind of temporary executive apartment that companies rent for their new hires, not a place anyone with some sense would rent for themselves.
Nice place but too expensive for me,i'd rather spend 1500-2000 in somewhere a little outside city centre with same standard of living,somewhere more value for money.
Since there are people in the comments saying this is priced too high, could you do some more apartment reviews, in a reasonable range but still a very nice place? I'm a photog and if I ever do move there I'd love to do some shoots with you, btw.
Also, many international school provide you with either a house or housing allowance. Most of the housing that the school offers are decent, close to the school. If the school gives you a housing allowance of 10k a month, that is also a decent amount as many locals in 1st tier can't even earn 8k with the current economy. Most of my co workers housing is around 8-12k rmb. Yes, if they spend over the 10k, then they pay out of pocket the difference and they are happy too, an extra 2k a month, for a better housing/location, etc, they are willing. If your rent is 3000 USD = 21,000 rmb? If that is true, that is like a 5 star building. If you think it is expensive, one can always go to a 4th tier city. The salary may not be as high, but so is rent. If you can afford the 3k USD rent in a 1st tier city, then you must be making 6 fig usd after taxes. And if your not a teacher, most jobs do provide housing allowance to expat. Canada goose is expenive in China, must be at least 7000 rmb. It is no wonder you dont have any saving. You seem to live a very luxury life. Money in and then money out?
The amenities you showed I think it's fair enough as compared to canada pricing. I don't know what in general prices there but still cheaper than here .
Very nice apartment. Sorry to hear about the rental scam. If laws are poorly policed and the sentiment is anti-foreigner then I expect it is more likely to happen.
Hi Aina, your video is awesome. :) i have a question about the occupancy, the 3rd and 5th floor are common area for all tenants but I don't see anyone using it. is the apartment side of the hotel a small area? or is the place is just vacant beside you and maybe a few others?
I don’t know about Beijing… my Guangzhou (newly furnished) 4-bedroom apartment 25 minutes subway ride to central Guangzhou is rented out USD1600 per month. Similar features, bigger size and more rooms, but less glamorous than your rental apartment. U need to move girl. 😅
I’ve lived here for years and have one tiny designer bag :). No shame, and I am doing quite well for myself. Bought the bags in my twenties and don’t need them now… however this sweet young woman is right that the Chinese new money value name brands a great deal.
What? only 1 dollar for that food? now in my country(slovakia) it would cost like 3 euros for similar snacks and thats actually lowballing, I earn 1200 which is slightly above average and for rent which is good price, I pay 230, most people for similar apartment pay 300 a month. I really envy that kind of food prices.
Yes, but you don't really have to live in the center of Beijing. Since you are youtuber, you can live in a lower-tier city but still get a luxury apartment with an even better price.
As a Chinese，I think you need to find a Chinese boyfriend or at least a good friend to help you save the cost, information gap is always the thing you should take care of，or you‘d get badly ripped off.
Well, thank you for the video. I am wondering about your income. But it is good to infer based on your rent that you may be making on or about $10,000 a month. I live in New York City where renting is expensive as well.
Judging from the scene outside the window, you live in a serviced apartment near Guanghua Road in the East Third Ring Road of Beijing. This is the most expensive place in Beijing’s CBD. Don’t know how many square meters your apartment is? According to today's exchange rate, 3,000 US dollars is about 21,500 RMB. Maybe because you are a foreigner, I feel that the price of the house you rent is a little expensive. If it were rented by a Chinese who is good at bargaining, I would estimate it to be between 15,000 and 20,000. If you are looking for an ordinary residence with exquisite decoration, you can rent a very good one for 12,000-15,000 RMB, which is very comfortable for one person to live in. 从窗外的景象分析，你住在北京东三环内，光华路附近的酒店式公寓里。这里是北京CBD最贵的地方。不知道你的公寓有多少平米？按照今天的汇率计算，3000美金约21500人民币。可能由于你是外国人的原因，我感觉你租的房子价格略贵了。如果是个擅长于砍价的中国人租的话，我估计在15000~20000之间吧。如果你寻找装修比较精致的普通住宅，12000-15000人民币可以租到非常不错的，，一个人住的很舒服了。
Yeah I used to rent a studio for 13.5k before. But the problem is I cannot rent a place for the whole year as they usually expect. So my choice is limited
Haha, you don’t need to use Google Maps to figure out the location. Looking from his window, there is a very tall building, a famous landmark building in Beijing, called Jingcheng Building, which is 50 stories high. So the location of this road is well positioned. 哈哈，不需要使用谷歌地图就可以分辨位置。从他的窗口看去，有一栋很高的建筑，是北京的著名地标建筑，叫做京城大厦，有50层高。所以这条路的位置很好定位。@@maxirona
It is difficult to find place to stay for survival in Beijing their some building that doesn't accept foreigners,they might be possibility to pay higher amount if you can find place around Beijing。
Hi! I live in Beijing too and earned around 20,000 rmb when I first came in 2014. The average income for local citizens is around 13,000 rmb. You can find a decent small apartment for 6-8,000 rmb or a fancy luxe one (nicer than hers, with my apologies) for 10-14,000 (maxing you out at $2,000 USD. Also the 28,000 rmb that she said she got robbed is ~4,000 USD, not 5,000 like she said, so her conversion might be off). TL, DR: you can survive on 12-16K rmb if you don’t have a lot of debt in your home country. You can live comfortably for $16K+. Licensed teachers earn 26-40,000 rmb a month after taxes based on experience. Fwiw
Hi Aina really enjoy your vids esp since my family and i are planning to visit China some time next year haha Just had 1 question: when you say you pay 3000 is that in USD? If so, geez that's pretty expensive... #RIP 😬
Very nicely presented! By the way, how is the weather there compared to your hometown? Theoretically, factors such as humidity (влажность) could also affect how cold you feel. Спасибо!
This is definitely a you problem not a China problem. I'm an international student in Shanghai 'China's most expensive city' and many of my friends who are expats live in very nice very central parts of the city in good accomodation with good facilities and are not paying anwhere near as much rent as you.
changing citizenship to China I presume, are you sure? hehe... I suggest maybe you can make a video about how you can afford your lifestlye and also about the breakup 🙂 People are curious! @@ainatea
Suspect that this is another China smearing channel. Basically, she's trying to imply that rental costs in China is very expensive. But she forgot that she lives in a probably 5-star service apartment in a tier one city, indeed the center of the capital city, without comparing to other areas of the city and other provinces of the country. Simple search online we could find out that the rental costs of the apartment with the same standard as hers could be way more expensive than $3k in other international metropolis.
@@ainatea From Russia myself, had almost the same accent in English as you (would bet most russians have/had one) for a while, so in my case it's probably relatability factor)
China is the best. The cost of apts is cheaper and cleaner and safer in many amazing Chinese cities. This married couple have a lovely apt for only $800.00 with two bedrooms in China and this cost of less than $1,500 per month is the norm. The cost of monthly rent is $2500 in Canada and USA is worst for ripoff apartments and high cost of living.
Why didnt you go through reting agency in the area you want to live? using apps is not a good thing ,Except Welcee cuz you deal with the landlord directly and there and it's foreigner app ,but that's fine don't feel so bad ,when you are in foreigner, getting scammed or facing racism is something you have to go through ,just take it as expensive lesson
haha, I know many who have nice apartments in China that doesnt cost more than $600 2 bedrooms apartment with modern design , etc.. The things you show with your images are not something else, I wonder where you find those images? Feels like you are lying a bit..
She's definitely lying. Anyone who has been to China (Beijing or other cities) before, can see that something is completely off about the story she's trying to sell her audience.
i just want to explain once and for all, that i am not showing you the "average" cost of living in this video, but rather a bit more comfortable level of living. I would never live in a $500 condo with cockroaches and an open shower, this is why i would rather "overpay" for my own comfort.
It is not "overpay" if it is a Hyatt building. It is luxury, and luxury is expensive.
But, your dad must be very rich, is he an Russian official?
its expensive bc u choose to be ..i bet there are much cheaper apt..
@@simple2125 of course there is, even more luxury than the one she got, I have seen and I know ppl who lives in more luxury apartments than this kpop girl, and the monthly bill is only around $700
What?! I've lived in Shanghai in recent years in about $700 apartment on Middle Huaihai Road and it was so much better than this apartment (and even if the prices are higher now, it could be around $1,000 maximum). And NO, there were no cockroaches and open shower or whatever. Also, you could rent an entire house with a yard with that $3,000 on French Concession in Shanghai. LOL, this video must be sarcasm or she got her sugar daddy spending some cash.
Sorry to tell you, but as some born in Hong Kong and Grew up in beijing and currently living in SanliTun, I must tell you, you are still most certainly overpaying for your condo. 3000 usd or around 21000 rmb will almost get you a whole fully renovated Si He Yuan(basically a beijing style high end villa, almost because the good ones do cost a few thousand yuan more than 21k), fully furnished. If you want a nice newer apartment with renovation and furnishing, this price will get you a 130+ m2 high end condo in prime locations. And condotels (like the one you staying) and the worst way to stay in a place long term, its usually for people who will be living in a city long enough for not wanting to pay day by day at a hotel, but not long enough for a full 6 month or 1 year contract.
dont get me wrong its a nice little place you got, but it aint no where near 21k XD
Real fact she really be over paying lol
do you have recommendations for how to find a rent in Beijing for foreigners? I used ziroom and wellcee but couldnt find anything similar to Aina's at a reasonable price.
@@purezzuh you have to use chinese websites like 58同城 or 安居客 or 房天下（just copy and paste these in google）, google translate the site to browse and choose a couple ones you want to see(becareful some of the listings are not real, there is an option to see only confirmed real listings) and then ask a friend to go with you so you dont get scammed. If you don't have a friend who speaks chinese and you dont speak chinese, hire a part time college student who does english home tutoring as a translator, should only cost you 100 dollars or something.
@@purezzuh youtube don't let me reply you for some reason.
As a Chinese myself, Your apartment looks more like $1000 a month only.
You got ripped off .
这酒店式公寓 又在三里屯 2000肯定是不贵的 3000有点贵 . 地段摆在那呢.
@@雷霆雨露皆是君恩 没关系，她是个大美女。 在中国，大美女的生活费都是免费的。
@@dongshengdi773 天下没有免费的午餐 住的免费 那不是随时都要准备吸老板的棒棒糖
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Dude, she lives not only 10 min from Beijing city centre, but it is a Hyatt Hotel & Apartment building. So of course it is expensive, much more than the average apartment.
I lived for 5 years and my wife is Chinese, so I can say she is highly exaggerating about trash apartments and her high level cost apartment. For 3k $ you can buy 3 apartments for 20 years loan. I was thinking to buy there and did some research but changed my mind.
Agreed. She is greatly exaggerating. I lived in Shanghai for four years before I moved to a smaller city. My rent was the equivalent of US$1100. It was a small studio apartment in the middle of the FCC. So a very nice neighborhood and beautiful (yet tiny) apartment in an elevator building with a beautiful view. You don’t have to spend $3000 on an apartment in Shanghai that’s just what she wanted. Now I’m living in a smaller city (3.5 hours drive from Shanghai)and I spend the equivalent of US$500 per month. I have a three bedroom two bath apartment and it’s not trash.🤦🏾♀️
@@adgurl01 spot on 👍
she is a china hater
I live in Beijing right by a subway station 15 minutes from Sanlitun and pay 7300 rmb for a modern, renovated hutong apartment with floor heating. For 9-10,000 a hutong siheyuan with two bedrooms could have been mine-well under $2K. I pay just under $1K USD. You are definitely getting a premiere experience, though! This is the equivalent of living on the Upper East side of NYC & saying that all NYC apartments cost $10,000.
You are in a luxury building with luxury amenities rocking a gucci bag and a Canada goose jacket using a dji wireless mic. I think you’re doing ok.
or she is running around with fake bags and stuff.
People are easily impressed by things. She's talking about what "you got to have," no you don't!
Lizzy lives in Kunming for $300 a 2bedroom. Chengdu (#5 city in all of China) have the same for $500, probably condo association fees of $85 is added. City ring2 add $200, ring1 add $400
if the total move in cost+deposit is higher than the 4months rent you thought you were to pay for then you know something was wrong with the lease agreement.
I completely agree. Similar apartments in Guangzhou are priced between 3500 and 7000 RMB.
are you serious?live at the hotel in central beijing and tell us is expensive to live in china
Hahah it’s not really a hotel, it’s still an apartment. Yeah it’s expensive if you want a comfy place. I’ll be explaining more in the next videos about real estate!
you have a misaderstanding about rent in china obviously,of course it is expensive if you live in the central beijing,where is the most expensive place in whole china,@@ainatea
yes she thinks she can fool ppl.. its a hoax
she is not okay,, she is trying to trash on china,, thats what's her mission is
Z@@ainatea
The trick is to hire a local (i.e., a citizen who's rented at least a couple times) to find a great apartment as if for themself when talking to rental agents and landlords. Expats should not go it alone.
I have a water boiler in the US, they're not that uncommon, but definitely not the norm. I love your view, and envy that you got a bath!
I got a recommendation once from my friend and that’s how I got scammed for ¥28,000 in Shanghai 😂 I went there with my friend to see an apartment actually
@@ainatea oh no! Well for me I got my interpreter/translator/maid to do it so she presumably assumed that her continued employment depended on it working out, as she was living there too (in her own bedroom, of course, although a few weeks in....)
Yes!!! I befriended a local agent and he has been a GODSEND. However for foreigners who are fearful of this, Ziroom will offer similar deals for literally half as much.
Edited to add: oh no! I saw in your caption that you tried to use Ziroom. Respectfully, I have a foreign friend who has used them for years and literally just got an apartment with them for 5500 rmb last month! I’m so sorry it didn’t work out for you. I will remove my recommendation for Ziroom in other comments since you already tried them.
Rent in a serviced apartment like this. It is often the choice of business people who only stay for a month or two. So this is definitely the most expensive option. More realistically, a similarly sized 45-square-foot house across the street from this location would cost about $1,500 a month. Let's forget about Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen，any provincial capital in China has pretty good living conditions.When I heard her say that maybe only 1% of Chinese households have a bathtub... I feel so funny, China is not India.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 china it's not india😂😂😂
Sorry to hear about you being scammed for such a hefty sum. Your current apartment looks pretty amazing!
Thank uu! Yeah I feel so sorry for the money
@@ainateaPlease never share exactly where you live for safety reasons
@@AntNvrt lol I'm reminded of that American guy who visited Natasha from the Yeah Russia channel.. American men are so touch starved and p word deprived they'll go the ends of the earth to harrass some woman on the internet
@@ainatea you should feel sorry for your life.. your life is so fake
I can not say the same. I lived in Xiamen and Shenzhen in a nice appartment for 300 and 500 Euro per months very modern.
Western Style.
Beijing and Shanghai are more expensive. But for me there is no reason (only job and love to live in this city), because Shenzhen, Xiamen etc. are much beautiful and much hotter the whole year.
I live in Beijing and pay 7300 rmb for a small but nicer spot (similar square footage but better kitchen) in center Dongcheng. She lives on the east side. You could get a nice place for 8-11K. Fyi
living in a hotel very near to the center part of beijing and call its expensive to live in China,good one
Quite sure those expats who are saying it is cheap simply have normal standards and aren't as demanding. The vast majority of people on this planet live on the outskirts of cities. City center prices are absurd almost everywhere in the world. By the way if the bathroom is so horrible you can usually just fix it up for moderate cost.
Some advice: Unless your income is so high that you can save about as much as you pay for rent don't be so demanding...
Apologies, but this is not the case here. I live in the center of Beijing (the neighborhood is Dongcheng) and pay the equivalent of $1000-1050 USD. She lives in the hip area of Beijing where foreigners go to play and the CBD is south and in the middle of the two of us.
I have an acquaintance living in an identical serviced apartment in her neighborhood who pays 11,000 rmb (roughly half 3K USD). This young woman is simply being taken advantage of/prefers to live at a Hyatt Hotel, which is absolutely her right. But it is NOT because central Beijing is insanely expensive.
This looks like an actual hotel room, not your apt. . .
莹莹 rented 3month short term in Chongqing as she owns an apt in Shanghai that is getting renovated, I think she handle the negations good, she paid 200yuan/month more for short term:
2200yuan month plus one-time 770yuan agency fee. She did end taking the high floor apt as it has much better view youtube: In order to save travel expenses, I want to rent a house in Chongqing
You are actually staying long term in a hotel, they are supply you with towels and bathroom amenities. You didn't say but are they also regularly changing your bed sheets and cleaning the apartment?
I mean you live in the CBD obv your apartment is gonna be $3000... Also I worked in 东单 around the 新天地mall the rent there have always been expensive. My buddy rented out his apartment in 簋街 it was around 2500. However, if you moved to 大望路 which isn't even that far as the train station is there, your rent would be like down to 1500 - 2000.
And she’s getting ripped off. I wouldn’t pay $3000 a month for that space anywhere.
How much for the hour?
do not show ppl where you live, it is not safe!
Simp
Nice video. Thanks.
btw I do not know how in America, but we in Europe, we have kettles... :)
Wow $3K for all that?! i gotta get one.. try that here in Los Angeles would cost u $4-5K+ in a building/downtown like that for something smaller too.. also Sanlitun looks amazing now i haven't been back in some years
I hope you are alright. Everything seems quite nice.
I lived in Changzhou, specifically in Zhonglou, from 2019 to 2020, and my rent was only 2000 yuan per month. I wonder what it is now.
I love your apartment! So cozy🥰
Apartment prices in China are amazing. Pay around 2000 RMB for something nice
Great video! in my country we dont have air purifiers, cause we dont need them and they are quite expensive and we also miss these types of mobile applications to control electrical devices. SOme people have them of course, but its almost exclusively for well off people.
To share, I have been a real estate agent in Las Vegas for 32 years. The mortgage payment at 2.87% interest, and association fees, as I live in a gated community total $1788. With landscape, sewer and trash, that would be another $80 per month, or that my complete payment for everything for a nearly 2000 square foot home with 3 bedrooms, an office, and a reasonably large backyard would be about $1868 per month. I paid $300,000 for this home, and when I finish the renovations in the next few months will be into it for about $345,000, and likely in three years or so it is worth about $525,000.
Yes, this isn't Beijing, but it is pretty similar to Palm Springs, and it is amazing as within one mile there are three major grocery stores, movie theaters, and if you expand the radius to two miles, maybe 100 different restaurants. If your travels ever take you to Las Vegas, and you are interested in some real estate or economic data, do let me know.
I was surprised to hear that only 1% of homes in China have bathtubs, as pretty close to 100% of the homes in the US do. Also, I don't think I could handle that squat toilet. Good wishes for you.
Hi! I lived in Vegas as a teacher for 6 years and lived in Centennial Hills! I live in Beijing now and have a Western toilet & bathroom with a nicer kitchen, in-floor heating & I am right next to a subway station for literally $1000 USD. If I were going to pay $3000 USD I’d go back to my Centennial Hills condo! It’s up to like $2K now with utilities (I checked)… so please don’t believe everything you see online 😅. This woman is paying the equivalent of someone in Vegas at one of the Aria serviced apartments.
@@abbyabroad Thank you for sharing of your experiences from Centennial Hills to Beijing. I hope that things are well for you in Beijing, and my only concern (which you might be able to correct, is with air quality, albeit as you know we have had many days in Vegas with smoke from California fires).
I am glad to hear you have a regular toilet, and that some of the content or perspective on this video is not quite as portrayed.
As you observed, housing here dramatically increased, with interest rates approximately tripling in less than 3 years.
Being in real estate since 1991, I am aware of the insane high rents and I feel terribly for working people just trying to be able to afford a condo or apartment, while purchasing a basic home here that was built within the last 30 years likely has payments in the $3300 range, when just a few years ago, as with me payments would have been about half of that.
Thank you for writing and I wish you the very best in Beijing.
Don’t try to tell the world China is expensive to live in if you live in the same building as a five star hotel, 3000usd for that, I will not pay 10k rmb for that. I know many friends living in Beijing and I can tell you they live in much better apartments for much cheaper than that. You do not even have a proper fridge or kitchen. I don’t live in Beijing, but I can tell you I live in a four room two bedroom apartment with central air and underfloor heating for under 1000usd that is 6000rmb and I get 8700rmb housing allowance. My apartment is next to Sam’s club and an amazing park. If you want to make videos like this tell the truth, and break down how much money you make etc and what things cost, not only say oh I live in a 3000usd apartment.
lol she “Had” to buy a Canada goose jacket
what do you work as to be able to fund your living expenses ? just curious
高级反华
当一个人对另一个国家充满不满却又不走，只在网上发布这些就能维持相当的生活水准，没有工作画面，没有日常生活画面，可以想像是怎么回事。
对了，它是长得像中国人的俄罗斯出生的哈萨克美国人，哈哈哈。
that’s the kind of temporary executive apartment that companies rent for their new hires, not a place anyone with some sense would rent for themselves.
Congrats. Your apartment is expensive as a regular NYC apartment, but it's actually like a luxery apartment
Nice place but too expensive for me,i'd rather spend 1500-2000 in somewhere a little outside city centre with same standard of living,somewhere more value for money.
你出的价格和位置，足够享受更好的了~~她的公寓价格偏高了~~至少她装修不值这个价钱~
Since there are people in the comments saying this is priced too high, could you do some more apartment reviews, in a reasonable range but still a very nice place?
I'm a photog and if I ever do move there I'd love to do some shoots with you, btw.
Great video, hope you upload more soon, sadly 😞 tour IG does not work to catch up with your new content
Also, many international school provide you with either a house or housing allowance. Most of the housing that the school offers are decent, close to the school.
If the school gives you a housing allowance of 10k a month, that is also a decent amount as many locals in 1st tier can't even earn 8k with the current economy. Most of my co workers housing is around 8-12k rmb. Yes, if they spend over the 10k, then they pay out of pocket the difference and they are happy too, an extra 2k a month, for a better housing/location, etc, they are willing.
If your rent is 3000 USD = 21,000 rmb? If that is true, that is like a 5 star building.
If you think it is expensive, one can always go to a 4th tier city. The salary may not be as high, but so is rent.
If you can afford the 3k USD rent in a 1st tier city, then you must be making 6 fig usd after taxes.
And if your not a teacher, most jobs do provide housing allowance to expat.
Canada goose is expenive in China, must be at least 7000 rmb. It is no wonder you dont have any saving. You seem to live a very luxury life. Money in and then money out?
I really like your English vocal. It helps me and thank you!
Thank uu🩷
I think that apartment is nicer then my house, its expensive but it's way better then you're average apartment in the usa
The amenities you showed I think it's fair enough as compared to canada pricing. I don't know what in general prices there but still cheaper than here .
Very nice apartment. Sorry to hear about the rental scam. If laws are poorly policed and the sentiment is anti-foreigner then I expect it is more likely to happen.
Hi Aina welcome back🎉😊. I liked your vids remind me my great great ancestry 😊😊😊❤
Does this apartment come already furnished?
Yep
Are there any Chinese apartments with big rooms? I’m curious to find out.
I've lived in China before and they were really nice apartments! Yours does not compare and neither one exceeded $3000
Hi Aina, your video is awesome. :) i have a question about the occupancy, the 3rd and 5th floor are common area for all tenants but I don't see anyone using it. is the apartment side of the hotel a small area? or is the place is just vacant beside you and maybe a few others?
I picked the time when there was no one there :)
you live on the capital obviously its expensive, there is cheap developed cities such as hefei, chengdu, changsha etc
I don’t know about Beijing… my Guangzhou (newly furnished) 4-bedroom apartment 25 minutes subway ride to central Guangzhou is rented out USD1600 per month. Similar features, bigger size and more rooms, but less glamorous than your rental apartment. U need to move girl. 😅
Sanlitun is an expensive area of beijing.. of course rent would be relatively high. I do not think this represents whole china
Honestly, I think if you're from a developed country China is relatively much cheaper. Rent in the West is absolutely sky high compared to China.
Cool place you got! Lovely little bathroom. I'm curious, why are branded purses so important to have? Do you get shamed if you don't?
I think because Chinese are new money :)
You just don’t feel comfortable when everyone around you is wearing brands but you don’t
I’ve lived here for years and have one tiny designer bag :). No shame, and I am doing quite well for myself. Bought the bags in my twenties and don’t need them now… however this sweet young woman is right that the Chinese new money value name brands a great deal.
love you content, I live in Beijing as well :D
What? only 1 dollar for that food? now in my country(slovakia) it would cost like 3 euros for similar snacks and thats actually lowballing, I earn 1200 which is slightly above average and for rent which is good price, I pay 230, most people for similar apartment pay 300 a month. I really envy that kind of food prices.
Yes, but you don't really have to live in the center of Beijing. Since you are youtuber, you can live in a lower-tier city but still get a luxury apartment with an even better price.
As a Chinese，I think you need to find a Chinese boyfriend or at least a good friend to help you save the cost, information gap is always the thing you should take care of，or you‘d get badly ripped off.
Well, thank you for the video. I am wondering about your income. But it is good to infer based on your rent that you may be making on or about $10,000 a month. I live in New York City where renting is expensive as well.
Girl, that’s totally worth the price. Over in America, $3000 is for a small ass room
What are you doing for paying the expenses?
dad's card
@@mchi6621you forgot to add sugar
Prostitution
Judging from the scene outside the window, you live in a serviced apartment near Guanghua Road in the East Third Ring Road of Beijing. This is the most expensive place in Beijing’s CBD. Don’t know how many square meters your apartment is? According to today's exchange rate, 3,000 US dollars is about 21,500 RMB. Maybe because you are a foreigner, I feel that the price of the house you rent is a little expensive. If it were rented by a Chinese who is good at bargaining, I would estimate it to be between 15,000 and 20,000. If you are looking for an ordinary residence with exquisite decoration, you can rent a very good one for 12,000-15,000 RMB, which is very comfortable for one person to live in.
从窗外的景象分析，你住在北京东三环内，光华路附近的酒店式公寓里。这里是北京CBD最贵的地方。不知道你的公寓有多少平米？按照今天的汇率计算，3000美金约21500人民币。可能由于你是外国人的原因，我感觉你租的房子价格略贵了。如果是个擅长于砍价的中国人租的话，我估计在15000~20000之间吧。如果你寻找装修比较精致的普通住宅，12000-15000人民币可以租到非常不错的，，一个人住的很舒服了。
Yeah I used to rent a studio for 13.5k before. But the problem is I cannot rent a place for the whole year as they usually expect. So my choice is limited
thanks for using google map , LOL
Haha, you don’t need to use Google Maps to figure out the location. Looking from his window, there is a very tall building, a famous landmark building in Beijing, called Jingcheng Building, which is 50 stories high. So the location of this road is well positioned.
哈哈，不需要使用谷歌地图就可以分辨位置。从他的窗口看去，有一栋很高的建筑，是北京的著名地标建筑，叫做京城大厦，有50层高。所以这条路的位置很好定位。@@maxirona
It is difficult to find place to stay for survival in Beijing their some building that doesn't accept foreigners,they might be possibility to pay higher amount if you can find place around Beijing。
Exactly!!!! So many places don’t allow foreigners in (but you’ll never be wrong with international hotels, they certainly accept)
So what do you need to earn if you want to live comfortably in the middle of the city?
Hi! I live in Beijing too and earned around 20,000 rmb when I first came in 2014. The average income for local citizens is around 13,000 rmb. You can find a decent small apartment for 6-8,000 rmb or a fancy luxe one (nicer than hers, with my apologies) for 10-14,000 (maxing you out at $2,000 USD. Also the 28,000 rmb that she said she got robbed is ~4,000 USD, not 5,000 like she said, so her conversion might be off).
TL, DR: you can survive on 12-16K rmb if you don’t have a lot of debt in your home country. You can live comfortably for $16K+. Licensed teachers earn 26-40,000 rmb a month after taxes based on experience. Fwiw
There is no way this worth $3K per month. This is more like a hotel than an apartment.
Hi Aina really enjoy your vids esp since my family and i are planning to visit China some time next year haha
Just had 1 question: when you say you pay 3000 is that in USD? If so, geez that's pretty expensive... #RIP 😬
Yeah sure US dollars, but this rent price is only true for the centers in first tier cities
@@ainatea Either way I wish you nothing but the best as we approach 龙年!!
Hope you are staying safe, mentally healthy, & spiritually in a good place🙏😇💚
Where does your high income come from?
A bank :)
@@ainatea I assume then that you are from a rich family. Lucky you!
@@ainatea😂😂
good question I asked myself too
It's expensive because it's near the city center
sorry to say but in 4-5000 rmb u can get a comfortable apartment anywhere in china
Very nicely presented! By the way, how is the weather there compared to your hometown? Theoretically, factors such as humidity (влажность) could also affect how cold you feel. Спасибо!
Здесь тоже очень сухо, зимой нет снега толком. Я больше предпочитаю Гуанчжоу с высокой влажностью :)
К счастью есть центральное отопление
that's a really nice apartment! what's your occupation in China? if that's okay to ask
why don't you make a complaint to Hyatt International and get the money back. you can get 2 nice bags for what the scam cost you?
Тоже жила в Китае, в Шанхае, ничего Китай не дешевый, согласна с вами абсолютно
why did she private her plastic surgery video?
This is definitely a you problem not a China problem. I'm an international student in Shanghai 'China's most expensive city' and many of my friends who are expats live in very nice very central parts of the city in good accomodation with good facilities and are not paying anwhere near as much rent as you.
Love your home.. it's really nice, Thanks for sharing. why did it took you so long to post a video?
Yeah it took me forever.. different circumstances, e.g. changing citizenship, breakup etc. 😂
changing citizenship to China I presume, are you sure? hehe... I suggest maybe you can make a video about how you can afford your lifestlye and also about the breakup 🙂 People are curious! @@ainatea
@@ainatea oh no I hope you are doing better!!! come back soon :(
Suspect that this is another China smearing channel. Basically, she's trying to imply that rental costs in China is very expensive. But she forgot that she lives in a probably 5-star service apartment in a tier one city, indeed the center of the capital city, without comparing to other areas of the city and other provinces of the country. Simple search online we could find out that the rental costs of the apartment with the same standard as hers could be way more expensive than $3k in other international metropolis.
When did you shoot this? when i was there it was so cold!
Beautiful apartment, looks like a hotel. 👍👍👍👍.
Sorry about the scam.
God bless you ❤🤗🤍🤍🤍
i love it😂
Your Russian accent is noticeably thicker when filming on the street, kind of quirky effect
Why you people always mention my accent 😂
@@ainatea From Russia myself, had almost the same accent in English as you (would bet most russians have/had one) for a while, so in my case it's probably relatability factor)
Maybe it’s because of the weather. The colder the weather, the heavier the Russian accent. russkiye
I think I should return back to where ever you crawled out from
You are soooooo rich girl 😮
Is that Yuan or Dollar?
$
Of course it is dollars. If it is 3,000 RMB, you may not even be able to rent a space the size of the bathroom in the video.
My parking space costs more than Y3000. It's very expensive to live in Beijing and more expensive than NYC.
Location, location, location! $$$! Free living if you live in rural area.
You must own a designer brand? I dont give one 💩about a purse.
I think that bathtub would be too small for us Westerners. Nice place though.
In new york I paid around $9k per month for the same size😂
As a woman do you not feel unsafe showing a video of location where u live? Theres some very strange people out there
China is the best. The cost of apts is cheaper and cleaner and safer in many amazing Chinese cities. This married couple have a lovely apt for only $800.00 with two bedrooms in China and this cost of less than $1,500 per month is the norm. The cost of monthly rent is $2500 in Canada and USA is worst for ripoff apartments and high cost of living.
you have a nice place but its quite pricey for the size
Bathtubs are nothing in China
Very good video. Thank you for sharing. You need to be back here in the United States.
What is your job in bejieng, and how much money you earn for a month
住的好当然贵呀，在哪儿个国家都一样，而且北京市中心CBD 的公寓更贵，几年前都那么贵了。
Hi I am the first one!
Why didnt you go through reting agency in the area you want to live? using apps is not a good thing ,Except Welcee cuz you deal with the landlord directly and there and it's foreigner app ,but that's fine don't feel so bad ,when you are in foreigner, getting scammed or facing racism is something you have to go through ,just take it as expensive lesson
3000? I would not say its worth it.
Clearly not belonging to the "1%" but surely to the "10%" Good job 🤣
Designer bag is a must in Beijing…? Where is she from?😂🤣🤦🏾♀️
in shenzhen i spend 12000yan for month/// for beautiful new house
haha...it was funny to see on you same sport-sute as i have before😄
She’s full of her self watch
haha, I know many who have nice apartments in China that doesnt cost more than $600 2 bedrooms apartment with modern design , etc.. The things you show with your images are not something else, I wonder where you find those images? Feels like you are lying a bit..
She's definitely lying. Anyone who has been to China (Beijing or other cities) before, can see that something is completely off about the story she's trying to sell her audience.
$3000 would get you a very small 1 bedroom condo in Toronto without all those amentities.