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Q: nanjing cost of living
i'm considering this place, but i need an indication what my expenses will be like. What's the rough price of a simple 1-bedroom apartment, furnished and airconditioned? Is the food decent and affordable? I can go partly native. How about electricity, internet, utilities and so on. Are taxes high there?
9 years 43 weeks ago in Business & Jobs - China
Average cost of a 1 bedroom apartment... 2500-3000 Rmb.
Food can run between 10-15 (cheap meal) and 50-60 (decent meal). I'm not a fan of the "local" food, mostly live off of Uighur food (pork makes me sick).
I have 2 roommates, and pay about 400rmb every 3-4 months for electricity and water. My apartment doesn't have Internet, so I can't give you an estimate for that, sorry.
Unfortunately, the only other city that I know to compare it with in china is Kunming... Kunming is much cheaper, but if you don't go out drinking every night, or eat at fancy restaurants every day, you can make do with living in Nanjing on a moderate budget.
NJ food is awful. It's like they don't even try to make it decent.
DrMonkey:
Duck blood noodle soup, pig liver noodle soup, that's some serious dream right there ^^
Thanks for the answer. It was an old question related to a job offer I got a while back, but I already refused it. A common tactic that recruiters seem to use, is implying that cost of living is cheaper in the destination city. From the look of the prices, it's not that cheap after all. I made a good call.
Recently a recruiter suggested that cost of living in Tianjin is cheaper than nearby Chengdu. But since they offered 3000/month housing allowance, and Chengdu jobs usually offer 1000-1500, I knew it was a bogus claim.
jetfire9000:
I'd have to say I agreed with Spider's pricing assessment... I don't live in a single but I have seen those prices for singles. I usually find double or triple room apartments, but even prices for those have went up about 300-400 RMB in the past 3 years it seems. Plus food here is worst I've ever tasted, they can't even get dumplings right. (oh, but it is vewwy dericious!)
Blasted recruiters, you did good on 'em.
DrMonkey:
You would have more sun than in Chengdu, but you are cooking in your own juice 4 months in the year. The food is really bland compared to Sichuan food. The local language is almost standard Mandarin with the L and N pronounced the same, not some wild dialect like in Sichuan ^^ Outside of that, it's not very different from Chengdu. Real estate is mostly ugly, it's dusty, polluted, crowded but you have some large parks.
jetfire9000:
Dr. Monkey I'm guessing you have lived here before :D
Hmm yeah local dialect just like that.. but still freaking hard to understand. (I still can't get it!) They have enough of their own unique words and expressions substituted in there to confuse you if you only know standard Mandarin.
mike695ca:
What? Your moving?? I thought you were pretty set up there?? With your country school/ bakery thing, plus all the family. Wouldnt nanjing be kind of like moving in and out of the same situation?? May I ask why you are thinking of moving?
