Thousands of young professional Chinese couples, unable to afford sky-high housing prices in the country’s first-tier cities, are pouring into neighbouring smaller cities in the hope to finding somewhere affordable to live, while still being able to work in a metropolis.
It’s a scenario that played out decades ago in Tokyo, as the Japanese capital expanded.
But in China, this kind of lifestyle for many is still a faraway dream.
Miss Li, a 30-year-old office worker from Shenzhen,…
Source : South China Morning Post
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