[Zhang Fei]

[In the cities, electricity is very cheap.]

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It’s cheap on US incomes. It’s not cheap on Chinese incomes that are 1/6 or 1/7 of US levels, meaning they can’t afford indoor heating, especially not in the uninsulated, brick, mortar and tile apartments I see in articles about Chinese real estate.

[datura]

Good point. My in laws, and my former in laws were all fairly well off. Were...

Now having said that, my sister in law says that protein prices are through the roof now. It was bad enough when the African Swine Flu decimated their pork supplies, but now food is astronomical in Shanghai.

Brother in law and his son have been told to stay home again this week from their jobs.