Chinese Public Transit is literally too good. 

Yuuuuup! You’re absolutely right. Though car traffic still gets pretty bad during rush hour.

Yup, me too. Really unique, interesting place.

Thanks for thanking! Really means a lot. Can’t believe no one else has made videos about it!

Yuuuuuuuuuup! It’s weird, huh!

Agree. True experiences from here in San Francisco!

Not surprising. Oil companies control your goverments and make sure roads and cars are built to consume patroleum. Yet none of the common people could see this and now leads to your daily nusance.

@@linphilip6389 well said. How do we fix it?

Corporation over People.

Very good indeed…. If only it was better 🤔

If they can work out the bike share kinks, it’ll be significantly improved. And maybe bring the electric Meituan scooters to Shenzhen 😁

At least you’ve got it way better than Los Angeles!!! I would have expected Sweden to have incredible and inexpensive public transport…

Not surprised! Hahaha. Are you from China originally?

I'm Chinese and my parents were born in China.@@thejamescorwin

Hahaha, that day I think you’re right, I was.

😂老年人都是免费坐的，所以他们不会错过任何一个公交车

In China if you are poor and don't have money for the bus, just tell the bus driver, most likely the driver lets you get on.

@@Anonymous------ Well you missed the point. It's no business with poverty. Everyone except the youtuber in this video just got on the bus with "beep, free card for the old". It's a kind of welfare for the old provided by the local government. Probably this video was recorded in working time of work days, so at that time there were only old people taking the bus.

@@flyingnan2520 I wasn't talking about him.

3 dollars can get you two way metro fares and a lunch in China. 😂

You’re so right. That actually would have made a legit difference. And charging it would have been mafan. Next time 😏🤔

Yup! Happens to me too! Then I went to Korea and had to wait like 19 minutes every time and was blown away. Then I went to Portland and had to wait like 24 minutes and thought that was outlandish. Then I went to Los Angeles and cried.

@@thejamescorwinu are so hilarious,funny

You’re the best. I love comments like this! I’m curious where you are. I’ve never taken a taxi in LA, but I imagine that’s about the price. As for the Chinese economy, I would love to make a video about this, because I have a lot to say, but my genuine answer is I don’t know. And neither does anyone in China. The best answer I can give is that there’s too many variables and unknowns to have a conclusive answer. I know for sure there’s a huge layer of American anti-China sentiment that loves to talk about how bad the Chinese economy is, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t problems. There are tons of people from rural, poor areas of China that are illegally entering the US through Mexico because of inability to find jobs. But at the same time, the problem is that they’re often misinformed about what life is like here, and it may not be a good solution for them. There are a lot of uneducated people in China who are only able to do low skilled factory work, and there aren’t enough of those jobs because manufacturing has slowed and a lot has been automated. China spent an insane amount of money on Covid Zero, only to have it not work and be completely thrown out. But covid zero also created thousands of jobs, so it also helped their economy. My friend who runs the Cotti Coffee stores and also started his own chain is doing very well and for him it’s business as usual. Housing prices have increased so much that only mega rich people can buy a place in developed cities, but it’s been like that since I got to China, and the government knows that’s where people store their money, and that they can’t just let the real estate market collapse. For some it’s life is the same as usual, with no economic problems. For others their prospects are few and far between. So I guess I would say, take American news with a grain of salt, but also know there’s truth to the problems. Predicting the economy is unfortunately impossible.

​@@thejamescorwin Thank you so much for the thorough and thoughtful response! I figured the truth would be somewhere between the hyperbolic extremes. I spent a couple months over there traveling mostly through Yunnan Province about 10 years ago. Beautiful area! Hopefully be able to visit again somewhat soon I'm in the Bay Area so the taxi fare is probably high relative to other places in the US but not that far off. Interesting that you have a friend in Cotti ;) Thanks again for all the great videos!

@@JohnSmith-vl3eoThank YOU for the engaging comments! I started a video about the Chinese economy thanks to your comment :D Stay tuned! Hahaha

​@@thejamescorwinwith a grain of salt? Bro, the US media/government are outright hostile to China and very little of what you hear is factual and even real. The fundamentals of the Chinese economy are sound (with reasonable levels of sovereign debt, 5% economic growth, high household savings and home ownership, etc.) and the government announced all the way back in 2018 that is would purposely allow the real estate bubble to deflate (western media conveniently chose to ignore that fact) as the country shifts further to high value add high-tech manufacturing (China is already the world leader in several key technologies of the future (photovoltaics, new energy vehicles, EV batteries, etc.) and away from construction as engines of future economic growth.

​@@thejamescorwin​@thejamescorwin with a grain of salt? Bro, the US media/government are outright hostile to China and very little of what you hear is factual and even real. The fundamentals of the Chinese economy are sound (with reasonable levels of sovereign debt, 5% economic growth, high household savings and home ownership, etc.) and the government announced all the way back in 2018 that is would purposely allow the real estate bubble to deflate (western media conveniently chose to ignore that fact) as the country shifts further to high value add high-tech manufacturing (China is already the world leader in several key technologies of the future (photovoltaics, new energy vehicles, EV batteries, etc.) and away from construction as engines of future economic growth.

Still, that’s awesome! Didja film it? Thatd would look so cool as an insta360 timelapse

Doesn’t this depend on the city you’re in? Getting license plates for the car in Shenzhen is the expensive part. They have raffles to get plates and you can’t drive in the city on specific days or during certain times unless you have the right plate numbers. I was in Dongguan once and got into a didi and he had to cancel because he wasn’t allowed to drive into Shenzhen at that time.

New energy license plates are very easy to obtain in shenzhen

@@dingdanny5745As far as I know, that used to be true, but much less so now that most of them are already new energy vehicles.

They do!! I use 百度地图 to book cars and like 40% of the time I get a smoke car, and if I’m going somewhere far like Nanshan to Dongguan or something, it’s like 80%.

Fingers crossed you’re right!! I spent over a year making that video 😅😂🤣

Hahahahahaha I love this comment because it’s *exactly* what I’m talking about! In Los Angeles, you get “share the road” bike lanes where you literally just share the same lane as cars. It’s so intensely bad here that people die ALL the time. But here we are nitpicking Shenzhen 😂🤣 what city in China has the bike setup?

I agree, there are better cities built from scratch with bike lanes incorporated from the beginning (some in Jiangsu for e.g.). Most of the bike lanes in SZ were tacked on as an after thought. When I first visited SZ more than 10 years ago there was only 2 metro lines and 0 bike lanes then.

Beijing has always had really great bikelanes, Jinan in Shandong quite decent too. Have heard good things about bike lanes in Shanghai and Xiamen even has a bike highway (which is probably a crazy waste of money, but is fun to ride along) @@thejamescorwin

​@@thejamescorwin I think Hangzhou has the best city bicycle lanes among the tier1 and tier2 cities in China.

@@flyingnan2520I went to Hangzhou in 2015 and EVERYTHING was under construction for a political summit that was happening like a month later. Haven't been back since. I'll have to check it out. Expect a video about it ;)

You’re not wrong, but in the US, we’re talking 3, 4 hours to get to work if you have to rely on public transit. It’s not even feasible. It’s a significant job barrier to some people.

@@thejamescorwin but in US, on the way to work, you are driving your own lovely car enjoying music and hearing free and real news, not propaganda or brainwashing subliminal messages. And you are not working 12 hours per day for about us$900 per month.

​@@computer-ot8si醒醒

@@computer-ot8si CIA bootlicker gtfo

Lolol, they’d fit in perfectly. If any place is gonna do it, it’ll be China.

You’re the best 😋

Shenzhen

What money are we referring to? And which home? 😜

@@thejamescorwin ， Andromeda, perhaps?

Under $1