Typical Apartment in China, 4K
Vložit
- čas přidán 5. 06. 2021
- My apartment in China is a very warm and comfortable home; it offers very good value for money. It is the biggest and most luxurious apartment that I have lived in since I’ve moved to China in 2018. This video gives you an unobstructed front row seat tour to my apartment in China. The tour includes all the rooms and the amazing views from the 56th floor in the 61 story building.
All photos and videos taken by myself (Robert Bauer)
Curious
This was a nice apartment! And for only $400 a month, it was a fabulous apartment! The only problem I would have with it is I'm crazy scared of heights! 🥴
You ll be surprised how easy you get used to it
I pay over 5 times that to live among urban decay in California
wow.... .. more room then i have
@@hxwow
Go live in China - America has had its day. Long live the revolution!
Exactly. I could not live at that height. Above five or six floors forget it.
I wish your wife a healthy delivery and wish for you two a happy and loving baby. sending lots of love from Senegal 🇸🇳
oh and the height !!! I couldn't omggg
Hi Chewing gum thanks for the blessing. My baby boy is very heathy. He is very naughty and has a lot of energy, but we all still love him.
Not from Senegal, but exactly the same sentiment. Much love from Trinidad 🇹🇹
@@curious7188 Congratulations on the baby. Did you guys have to lockdown in place because of the virus? That must have been pretty scary.
@@evilchaperone We only had a lockdown in January 2020. It was longer than a month, but we didn't live in the apartment yet.
Waking looking down on the clouds is like being on another planet! I'm 11 floors up, took me a long time to feel comfortable on the balcony, 52 floors is mind blowing.
56 floors
@@leslieannvanhumbeck9444 .
@@leslieannvanhumbeck9444 yea imagine riding the elevator up to your apartment every day !!! Yikes
@@mikewilliams2106 better yet imagine walking the stairs! Lol
Thats not clouds..thats pollution!
I live in Moscow and I'm actually surprised how similar this apartment is to the one that I and many other people in this city live in. The only difference aside from the cultural stuff is that we typically have electric cookers and not the gas ones and we usually use water filtering instead of water dispensers. Everything else is actually very very similar
Sim city
Yet this apartment is WAY cheaper than in Moscow
@@nik91294 depends on the region of the city really
Communism
@@alhigh9856 Russia isn't communist anymore for like 30 years
Scary! I could never live on the 56th floor.
especially when the building could be tofu
Seriously there's no way you could take thr stairs regularly. You'll have to take the elevator and god forbid something happens to it.
After the collapse at Surfside Florida I don't think I would trust reinforced concrete , Steel yes . Not sure I trust Chinese construction . They built small cities that are just falling apart and were never used.
I wet my Depends just watching the "Life in a Cement Bunker" video! Anything more than 2 floors & I won't live there!! Looking out my second story balcony in our garden court apartments with my cat watching the birds & squirrels on the greenbelt... Serene, peaceful with a simple outside stairwell for fast exit in case of emergency. Chinese Fortune Cookie say:" Rots of ruck in next earthquake buddy!" 😱
@@kerridillon3120 I live on first floor and thank god is that way ..my grandparents lived in other city on 17th floor and i was little scared when i was at their place...apartment was very cool looking with giant living room but i even afraid to go to their kitchen because it kind off round and floats above air ,not to mention to go to balcony ..when i was in primary school and sleep there i was so nervous knowing that just a half meter from me is a big height ..also there was second balcony on opposite side that was very small and look just down to some school yard just below and i did now have courage just step on that balcony..just when i open balcony door my heart would pump like crazy
What a lovely home! I have never seen a highrise apartment with an outhouse before!
😄 yeah what's up with that?
@@jotterson1156
Yeah exactly, it's such a waste of space and makes the whole balcony kinda less-comfort or less-hygiene to me.
Other than that, great looking house for the price!
It looks like it was meant to be the bathroom for a planned third bedroom, but then the developer changed the plans halfway through construction.
if I had that apartment I would literally just sit at the window and look at the night view so cool and awesome looking
I live in NC in the US. I can't imagine finding a nice apartment like that in the states that is only $400. That is unreal! An apartment like that in the states would probably
$1500 - 2000 a month. Or more in some cities. It's a nice apartment with lots of space. Thanks for the video. I've wondered what life is like in China.
remember that people in other parts of the world dont make as much money as in the US
I highly doubt this is completely truthful with the amount of propaganda and censorship in China. He probably makes more money than 99% of the population also.
Yeah this was mind blowing, I live in Seattle WA USA and rent for a 1 bed 1 bath is at the 2,000 a month rate, even studio apartments are approaching 1,600 a month
if you think this is cheap, i invite you to go work in china as a regular citizen. and when you will the get 500 dollars/month wage, you tell me that 400 dollars rent is cheap.
$400 in China is a lot of money.
$400 a month with that view!? Wow. I just looked up Ghangsha on Google maps and the city isn't even that big compared to others around it, but it's a MASSIVE city compared to cities outside of China! Impressive.
yeah try earn that $400 with barely legal wages in china (their minimum wage is 2-4$ an hour) oh and not to mention the infamous tofu dreg construction
I don't know what's more scary about the outhouse, doing my business while everyone can hear me or being so close to edge.
I have to wonder where the outhouse is drained to? In the US it goes into a hole, does it go down to the street in China?
@@Reneelwaring The outhouse is connected to the main sewage drain of the building. In the design plans, the patio was supposed to be a bathroom and an extra bathroom.
@@Reneelwaring Yeah...he said he's on the 56th floor right? What the heck! Thats a LOOOOONG way for poop to drop.
In the states, some very old hotels had outhouses on each floor at the end of the halls, outside. They all had holes straight down to a pit, but they were staggered. So the bottom seat was on the 2nd floor and was on the far right, the next level in the middle, next level was far left. The one that I've seen did not have an outhouse on the ground floor in this design, it was away from the hotel.
@@d.martinez-rodriguez333 back in the days, an outhouse was called a longdrop in my country .😂😂😂😂
Being aware of the typical build quality there I would not be able to sleep in a building like that. Any pop or thud would have me searching for a parachute!
Me too.
There are obviously some real stories of buildings literally falling over, but considering that to be a normal risk of life is like wearing a lightning rod around for fear of getting struck by lightning. With all the construction in China, and as few nightmare stories as there have been where buildings have actually collapsed, that is not a rational fear.
The building quality issues usually come out in things like elevators that stop working, leaving you with a 20-minute wait for the remaining elevators to come all the way up that high; terrible water leakage that fills a place up with mold, or worse yet your upstairs neighbors hiring a substandard plumbing contractor and either dripping persistently into your apartment or actually flooding it; power service that was designed for a 20-story building, so it shuts off whenever there's too much demand... etc. That's where my fears would be lodged. I've never lived in a building THAT tall, but I have had those problems and many more in virtually every Chinese apartment I've ever lived in.
@@friscodog this video is a propaganda video anyway
Beautiful place , I live in the USA and it’s very cool to see how things are done in other countries and $400 a month is great price of course depending on how much you make as a teacher, thanks for sharing this view.
I would say on average an English foreign teacher in china would spend about 10 - 30 % of their salary on rent. It would depend on the city they live in and the type of school they work in.
@@curious7188 Average salaries in Changsha don't seem that far off from Europe and America either, good on China for taking care of its people well. Affordable housing should be one of the top priorities of any government. I dread being highly educated in a 'rich' country and paying half my paycheck to rent without such wonderful view or space!
You know China is paying him for this video right...
@@estevesobel2762 no I don’t know , and I don’t care I’m never going to China , I just like to see how some people live in other countries
@@Mocha. id rather live in a country that doesn’t lock me in my house like in shanghai, but that’s just me
You actually have a lot of space in your apartment and it's quite nice.
What a nice apartment and layout. And quite affordable. In downtown Los Angeles your unit would rent for around $4500.00 to $5500.00 a month.
Crazy!
Who can afford that?
@@irenedavo3768 Not me.. but the very wealthy and foolish.
@@larkatmic which is sometimes the same
@@larkatmic Why would wealthy lived on 57 floor ..makes more sense to live in house
Can't imagine being that high up when earthquakes hit would be very scary 😳 very nice apt and so much larger than all the mirco apartments that you hear about all over there . Thanks for sharing and congratulations on baby wishing you and wife best.
Quakes of the earth
Allow me bra, hate them tings
The view of the downtown at night was really colorful. You're right when you say the Chinese take neon to a whole different level. I'd love to see it in person.
China, Japan, and Korea has a lot of neon lights. I’ve always been jealous! We need more neon lights in U.S. cities!
The view of the temple and of the countryside is really pretty. I hope your family will still be using that camping gear after baby comes! It's pretty wild how that HUGE apt. is 400USD! I'm always surprised everytime I see anything about living in China. Thank you for sharing you your home with us.⭐
Ok I was going to ask hk$? Or usa $? Wow that is cheap compared to us here in California. Enjoy your son, much happiness to you new family! Take many photos! They grow up very quickly! We are only on the third floor but our son when little, lived to leap off anything! I'd be fencing in your 2nd outdoor patio to stop his spiderman or superman efforts! Wire screens fastened very well! Lots of luck to you and your wife and son! Yr of the water tiger. You will have many stories later! Ha ha!
@@sheilasullivan1950 USD, but 400 US in RMB is alot
Cant tell if this is sarcasm or not. Looks like a view of a modern dystopia
@@throngarastora7569 yeah for a country which is known for not enforcing their minimum wage which is barely 3 USD an hour 400 USD a month is a lot. that's around half your pay there. but i do know many jobs that pay over minimum wage in China and most jobs do pay over minimum wage... but i think for those kids who just started working and got minimum wage this is far off. but in America it's the same way so i can't complain.
@@sheilasullivan1950 the average salary in China is less than half than the average in usa. That's why the rent is way lower. I believe it would be even worse for foreigners because most jobs don't take in foreign people unless they really need you ie language teacher which don't get paid much. I was a software engineer there but it was only for the time they needed my expertise. Then they had no more use for me.
Congrats on the baby! Hope all is going well! The apartment was bigger than I was expecting! The outhouse 56 stories up is hilarious!
I was wondering if its even plumbed in?!
It's baby time!! - Creepio
Velocity of dung from 56 floors? Deadly!
@@joblo497 lol!!!
baby you're the best, youre not like all the rest
no matter what you do, I will be proud of you!
even if you receive a liberal arts degree
Baby time, it's baby baby baby time!
Thanks for the visit Robert. Lovely place & people for sure. I hope your family & baby are all doing great !
The views are spectacular , thanx for the amazing tour .
I never wanted to go to China. I went there for work and it was the most beautiful place I've ever been.
some would like to go to china, but the understand that they might just be thrown in prison if they say anything that's not to the liking of the commie government
@@vivianpang5096 Sadly this is true. I don't think I will ever make it back there. I wish I could ,but like a lot of places on earth these days travel isn't safe. I would have loved to take my children there.
@@jackmedcalf6254 Dont be that pessimistic dude
@@rbasket8 lol
Idk about "typical". Looks kind of luxurious.
They hooked him up with a living, transportation, and job security. Perks of being a foreign teacher
This was a cool tour. Thank you. And congratulations on the baby.
Nice apartment, beautiful view. Thank you for your generous video of showing your home.
Thank you so much for giving insight into an apartment in China!!! The halls and so much look absolutely spotless. I'm so glad you added the night view. Now I want to see the bridge in the morning opening to let the water flow as well as a high speed train. Please post more! So curious and fascinated!!
Nice video, pleasant host, accurate about middle class China. When I visited Tanlao (Inner Mongolia) and Shanhai the apartments where Chinese midle class people lived were spacious, thoughtfully deigned, and very nice. In Shanghai the was a very large central oval shaped courtyard surrounded by a number of apartment buildings. Nice place to run on a track or take a stroll or sit and read. There was also a play area for kids. In China I never met with any fellow Westerners, only Chinese people. They mostly all spoke English but when they didn't and I was a alone with them we could make ourselves understood and we could phone someone to translate a word or phrase. The college age guides were friendly and funny, good company.
the average chinese apartment is a moldy cement box that is dreary at best.
@@vivianpang5096 And most apartment buildings in china would collapse at the first sign of an earthquake
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for sharing a glimpse into your home. I would be very happy to reside in such an apartment - especially the floor you are on with view and outdoor space. Best wishes to you and your family.
Thanks for sharing.! Loved the scenery.
How lovely, a baby boy. Congratulations! And thanks for sharing this video. $400 for that apartment? They are renting monthly storage units for that here in the USA. LOL!
Very true! That's why I choose to live in a small town!
Yea in china the average man earns about 550$ a month
And you must consider the incomes over there is not high , avarage chineses citizen earns 570$ monthly
Essentially slave labor. Imagine living on $550 a month LMAO...
@@raiden72 Isn´t the Federal minimum wage in the US about $7.25?
Congratulations on your new child! Best wishes to you and your family!
The sky don't lie.
That was awesome 👏 thanks for making this
Amazing views. Great apartment. Thanks for sharing. China is just a whole different world.
Congratulations to you and your wife. Bringing new life into the world. Enjoy every moment ❤❤🙋♀️ Hello from Ontario Canada
Your place so lovely
Thank you for giving a tour 😊
That was soo cool to see! Blessings to your family.
That is a very nice view!
i thought the outhouse was a joke... until you opened the door :-D
Incredible! Thank you for the video
That's all very impressive. Thanks for sharing!!
Great. Enjoy it. Good luck.
Beautiful apartment! The layout is different than a typical American apartment. I love how you and your wife have organized your home.
Thank you, very nice!!! May God bless you and your family!
So very nice! Even a little grass! I enjoyed seeing your home, and wish you well with your new baby!
Nice apartment, I like the view
Can you imagine when the elevator goes out? Good grief.
Happy to hear your baby is coming soon. Wish your family the best!
yup, real pain during a fire
Beautiful with the clouds at the end. Apartment was very nice and affordable. Wishing you and your bride a happy and healthy baby. I hope this reaches you and those you love in great health and happiness❤️🙏😎
Very nice! Thank you for sharing! 🙂
What a lovely view! It's cool to think your baby must be almost one year old now
That's true, he is 10 months old and is very healthy and happy, a little naughty sometimes.
@@curious7188 Aw how sweet, I'm glad to hear it
Just watched this. Beautiful apartment and that view is amazing. Congratulations on your little one!
Wow! Awesome! The view is really incredible.😲
Random video that popped up in my feed, I'm glad I watched! Thanks for the tour of your home, I absolutely would love to live there! I've never lived in the city but with that view, I could be tempted to move!
That's a great looking apartment! I could do some serious shortwave dxing from the 56th floor! The bathroom may be small but very efficiently laid out. Not bad for $400 a month! Thanks for showing it to us.
IN MIAMI FL. THIS IS 2.300. A MONTH! WAY OVER 2OOO! CAN'T AFFORD THAT. MANY CAN'T. 😩😩
You do realize he lives in China, right? You wouldn't get much 'serious' shortwaving done at all; they'd jam your signal with state sponsored folk music first, and if you persisted, they'd arrest you.
@@simplechronology2605 Even in China they can't jam every single frequency including the amateur radio bands (w/ SSB). Even during the height of the Cold War people in the Eastern Bloc were able to bypass jammed frequencies and sill pick up western stations such as VOA, Radio Free Europe, and the BBC since stations change their frequencies throughout the day and in response to changing atmospheric conditions. Jamming stations made it difficult but not impossible.
@@captainamericaamerica8090 What are you talking about, in Miami average salary is like 5000/month, in changsha it is about 600 bucks. You still can pay 2000 a month and will be left with 3000 if you have the average salary. Not even mentioning that this apartment he lives in is 20km from downtown too.
I love how spacious but convenient the apartment is. The spare bedroom could be baby's bedroom in the future. Everything looks amazing and the price is great!
Whaaaoo, what a wonderful place, what an awesome view.
The view is amazing !!
That height is insane…
Sup Sayilu, yea the whole building is 61 stories tall.Its the tallest building in the region. Sometimes when there is strong wind I get nervous the building will fall over.
"Let's put a toilet in the balcony." Great idea!
Thank you for the tour of your apartment in China. Very nice looking.
Wonderful views and nice apartment.
I lived in China for a number of years in newer apartments and different cities and provinces and that apartment is WAY better than what my wife and I had. That is not “typical” by any sense of the word.
He said middle class.
You must be living in an expensive city or expensive district.
move to cheaper cities.
@@Commievnthey were not expensive cities by any means. They were in the middle of the country 300 kilometers from Wuhan and two hours from Shenyang.
Thank you very much for the tour of your wonderful home. I love the wood doors. They are quite different than most interior doors here in US. You have a lot of space. You will need it when baby comes and begins to grow! I appreciate knowing what apartments are like in your area. Blessings on you and your family. Hope you keep making videos, whenever you can😊
We definitely don’t take our doors as seriously as they do.
Congratulations! God bless you and your beautiful family.
Nice video. You have an amazing view.
Congratulations on your son! Hope wife is well~ Thank you for sharing your apartment in China. Wow~It's large for $400. USD/month, and looks very comfortable! (I love a good lazy boy chair!) I'm afraid of heights, so could never live in a high rise building but can appreciate the views you have. Continued success in life for you and your family~
I also cant imagine living that that high - above the clouds in the winter .. tell me , do you ever feel the building sway? I heard they can sway like six feet normally ? I'm not sure I could get past that. Best wishes to your family and thanks for sharing mate !
I have never felt the building sway, I think only steel structures can do that. To be honest when its really windy I do get a little nervous.
@@curious7188 you mean to tell me that building doesn’t have steel in it
@@hermanrogers1325 probably those steel that looks like twizzler 😅
as far as i know tall buildings like these supposed to have an "I-beam" steel frame as opposed to the rebar that looks like twizzler.
but we're talking about china where profits are priority over safety and everything there is substandard.
Literally my stomach was quezy at seeing how high the apt is. Very nice inside as long as you cannot see out and down 😀. I couldn't even go up that high and certainly not live and sleep there. I'm impressed.
@@hermanrogers1325 I has steel in it, its not like the Eiffel tower for example. Concrete cannot bend or it will break. I'm not an engineer, so I'm just guessing. I never recall the building swaying.
Gorgeous. So many rooms.
Beautiful view!
Thank you- very interesting to see how people live in China. Like some others have commented, I fear heights and could not live on 56th floor-too scary for me. Best of luck.😊
$400 for a high-rise two bedroom apartment with an awesome view? Unbelievable. When I lived in Center City Philadelphia I paid $2700/month for that 😂 and I was only in the 7th floor 😆
China has absolutely not building codes. Everything is cheap. Those building fall down every day an the developers don't get screwed. It's a dangerous place. Also just because it's 400$ american dose not mean that's cheap. It's very hard to come by even 100$ a month job. They are over populated and living on top of one another literally. Unfortunately the east coast is horrible with price gouging an pretending the city's are rich. Many people fleeing those shit holes just the same. So uncomfortable to have no privacy, space or air to breath it's trash city lol
This is China, The average wage here is $1000 a month, why do people like to compare china to average western countries? Check out China insight on youtube to know the real life the chinese experience in China.
Well he's basically in the suburbs in a tier 2 (3?) city. The rent in a tier 1 city closer to city center is 5 - 10x that price.
@@SkyfalconTin yeah I lived in China that's not true at all. I stayed there for five years. There is class system. An most people barely make 10$- 100$ usd. If you talking RMB/CNY then sure thats 1000¥. I even get exchange rate of 1$ for 20¥ now that the Chinese economy is falling apart. But you can brearly get anything good for 1000¥. Like this dude's apartment is a shit hole. Barely 1000sqf. That's not middle class that's third world country shit. All you propagate such lies of what real Chinese go threw. I think you should realize more people live in boxes the size of this guy's kitchen in China, this is not being a "typical" apartment in China. It's really not. An people who know, know.
@@jizzstain4458 he pointed out that the water is not cleaned and if you look at the air quality there also not great. The whole place is hazard. Not to mention the quality of the building. I heard they called building in china “tofu building”. Not to recommend having children. For him, he probably have to say something good about China or else the CCP probably will arrest him. As you mention he RMB, I heard China banks stealing people money.
Fantastic value, view, location!
Totally fascinating! Thank you very much from London UK and Buenos Aires Argentina :)
I'm quite surprised by the price for such a nice apartment. That view alone is worth more than the rent!
Subsidized by slave labor (no joke)
Very, very nice apartment especially for the price! But I could never live that many floors up. What if there was a fire on any of the floors below me? Glad you are happy with it!
Stunning view!
It truly is amazing view.
You have a lovely home, but I must say, my anxiety level shot up when you took us out onto the balcony. Looking out the window when you're that high is nice, but when you can actually fall? Oh heck no! I would be terrified to have a child anywhere near that.
ugh, I live in the country and love the open space and freedom, I could never live in a place like that, so high up, all that concrete, too many people...The fact you have to take an elevator just to leave or get to your living space scares me so bad, I don't trust elevators even if I have to use it only once, I get so much anxiety watching this lol
If you are wealthy, you can live like that. But for $400, this is pretty good.
Wow very nice apartment, wonderful views, I love the nightscape, Beautiful, thank you for sharing.
Amazing! I always wondered what the view would be from a high rise, so thanks. You're place is so very beautiful and huge and very, very cheap. Have fun with the baby!
What a surprisingly nice apartment. I would not be comfortable living so high up as I'm quite scared of heights. The bed in the guest bedroom is so close to the window if you left it open at night you could roll over and plunge to your death in your sleep.
I think gravity might wake you up 😂
Terrifying to me. I like to live in a house, where there is a window in case I need to jump out due to fire. In the states, it's illegal to use a bbq in an apartment building on the porch.
I lived for 6 years in the third floor (of 3 floors) condo and couldn't even have an outdoor electric grill like a George foreman on our balcony cause of the fire hazard. Can't imagine having actual fire on the 56th floor!
Yeah, I wasn't feeling it either.
I am imagining 56 floors and 10- 20 apartments a floor. That building could have a hundred grills going on a weekend!
@@jerrya2006 haha obviously he is living on the very top floor of the building which have a big balcony that other floor dont have.
Thank you for sharing.
wow, thank you for showing us your apartment, very informative. I hope the baby is well and your wife and you are doing fine
In India such apartment rent will be atleast 1000$ & if it is Mumbai it can go up to 16000$.
Yes just one month rent...
Who can afford that?
@@irenedavo3768 rich people like actors, actress, business man, etc.. recently Madhuri Dixit an actress rented similer apartment at 1200000 Indian INR. i.e. 16000$ & that also not in so tall & old building.
@@ramehtag and politicians, drug dealers and thieves
1000$ is a strech. It's expensive but not what 1000$ is in market today.
How often do you get welded in?
Very impressive and informative video. Thank you!
Congrats on a new baby. May GOD bless you and your family.
This is about 3 times as big as my mother inlaws apartment in Moscow, she is in Babushkinskya about 30mins by metro NE of centre. Typical old school soviet apartment maximum 10 floors i think.
China looks very nice from 56 floors up:)
This is not a typical apartment. It is most certainly a higher-end style of living. From what I have seen, the far majority of Chinese live at a much lower level. And certainly, there are apartments which are far more expensive in the bigger cities.
Thank you for sharing very enjoyable.
Very nice!! Wishing You very happy
Propaganda or not, it sure would be nice to live in an apartment highrise in a foreign country for only $400/month
$400/month is a stretch for two hard working people in China.
@@oliver9089 90% own their homes probably because is less expensive on the long run.
Yeah, if you don't care about fire safety, or collapsing buildings, or your life in general. Then yeah, what nice deal!
@@IIITheSTpiLotIII lol, when has a skyscraper ever collapsed due to fire?
@@oliver9089 they had several buildings collapsed in china, even without the fire 💀
“Here is my air conditioning, it runs on electricity.” What else would it run on??
Fascinating stuff thanks for sharing :)
gorgeous view
love the smoggy air. great view of the polluted river.
C'mon it's not that bad 🤷♂️
@@jblking3896 yea. Sure
I always wonder about the safety of buildings in China.
Very informative.
Thank you
Very nice! Thank you.