Slop.

I spent all this money on the biggest TV I could afford, because it was supposed to be a good investment, but since then TVs have only gotten cheaper! What the hell?! Now all I'm left with is this useless TV I bought at market rate, used for many years, and intend to keep using!

All those years I spent at the TV factory, where I personally made the TVs cheaper and better, and for a good income, and this is what I have to show for it?!

“You don’t understand, I FEEL poorer!”

Absolute babies.

Chongqing or Chengdu I'm guessing

Edit: it's Shaoxing, apparently

Same. After all, can’t have too small of a sample size!

When in reality it's much closer?

That scene from Monty Python with the Spanish Inquisition 'torturing' people with comfy chairs and cushions

Here's an archive link to the article: https://archive.is/nw44O

Incomes in Shaoxing are up there with nearby Hangzhou and Shanghai, but cost of housing is very low because the city has expanded a lot. Economic opportunity is high but it also makes it easy for "domestic migrants" from other workers to settle there and send their kids to school in Shaoxing (ie. less stringent hukou).

It has many historic neighbourhoods but is also improving the urban design of its new ones, there are canals everywhere.

Chen Niuqun, a Fujianese salesman, has lived in Germany, so has some basis for comparison when he declares his preference for Shaoxing. “In Europe at 6pm the streets are empty. Here it is just the beginning,” he says. And business culture is more relaxed than in many Chinese cities: he works an eight-hour day and takes his daughter to school in the mornings.

"But at what cost?" They say that it isn't insulated from nationwide issues around housing oversupply (according to them) and academic/economic competition stressing people out. But they also call shaoxing boring and micromanaged, using phrases like "careful pruning of daily existence" and "the controlled narrowness of urban China" that's "dictated by ageing cadres who leave little to chance". Of course it also mentions "mass surveillance". Reminds me a lot of certain perceptions of Singapore.

“It’s just boring,” mutters a young woman with a pierced lip.

Too much Shaoxing street wisdom, my heart too big, my smoke more different, my bitch too bad, but at what cost

If you're too comfortable, you turn Chinese. If you're too lovesick, you turn Japanese [cw bizarre orientalist racism]. Are there any other ethnic metamorphosis requirements that I should know about?

NGL, it’s kinda funny seeing them twist themselves on how good things are bad things.

China could be a utopia and the anglosphere can collectively run itself back into the stone age, and the Economist will be bragging about how decadent utopia China is, and how the stone age toughens them up.

They write fan fiction for . The copium must flow lest they admit their model failed.

Shaoxing

https://archive.fo/nw44O

"Cameras everywhere." Bruh...