I have a friend currently in China teaching English.
She and her roommate have a 2/2 with patio for about $20 US a month.
Her roommate makes $.75 US per hour, all other expenses are within the a normal ratio.
So that’s my experience, yours is really very different.
My husband works with Chinese nationals at his job in the US, and their education is equal to the people at his job.
So there must be great disparity in the country.
The basics of life are very cheap there indeed. Fuel and pharmacuticals are at world market prices.
I have two issues with their engineers.
1) is that there is no history of good engineering. Their experience is less than 15 years tin total and most of these guys are in their early 20’s. there is no documentation of engineering changes, they just do them. When questioned about where the support for such a change, the test case and test summary report, you get fluff. When the parts are out of spec or simply don’t work, it is virtually impossible to isolate the cause.
2) The culture is at its base duplicitous. There is no honor, no shame. In dealing with westerners in business, they will constantly try to skirt the terms of the contract. Rather than just do as the contract stipulates, and things would go smoothly, they are constantly trying to get over on you. It is unrelenting, and tiring.
////quote//// Her roommate makes $.75 US per hour, ////unquote///
75 CENTS? Is that a decimal?