House hunting in rural China 🐓🏡 我的李子柒梦是不是终于可以实现了？？ 

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Kathy without any doubt, your shows are so popular around the world ; because you showed a lot of scenery of the country sides , on the contrary young generations of Chinese prefer to move to the cities . You really help us to change our mind to pay more attention to the country sides . Thanks !

I left China when I was 5, and have only been back a few times, including a few years ago to mom's small town(by Chinese standards). Watching your video brought back a lot of memories. Thanks for showcasing your life.

This was great. Rural China living is fun. My family has been living in a village outside Lijiang, Yunnan for a few years now. We (including my two homeschooled kids) have learned to farm, to raise chickens, play hide and seek in the nearby forest, and have been having a great experience.

The most important think is that you look so happy to return back to China and also Congratulations for your new job. The Chinese countryside is so peaceful and there you will spend awesome days Thank you for sharing this fantastic video

I've just moved to Beijing to start my PhD and I'm super happy the channel is continuing! Hope you enjoy whatever future the rural life has waiting for you haha

Very pleasure to see you are back , Katherine. Also, I love your trips around China's country side. Regards from Brazil.

My family and I just moved to Nanjing last month. I'm excited for our adventures in China! Looking forward to more of your videos! :)

If you move to Hangzhou, then Hangzhou has 三大老外, 阳离子，瑞丽，Popmatta ❤️❤️❤️😀

Kat, I must say that I'm really impressed with your ability to master the Chinese language so well! 我真的必须要为你点赞！好样的！

Always enjoy your content, whether visiting family in the States, negotiating the chaos of India, or in your chosen home of China. You do seem to be happiest back in China! Having a new job and and continuing your RU-vid channel is more than enough to handle without taking on house renovations as well. As much as we might like a version of Katherine's "This Old House" in China I think the work involved, along with the expense of repairs might be a bit too much. Look forward to learning more about your new job.

Huge respect for stepping out of your comfort zone to truly explore asia culture!

Alongside with Suzhou, Hangzhou is my favorite city in China. Capital of the richest dynasty in China’s history, the West Lake, Xixi Wetlands, the old buildings and the greenery of the surrounding area… Beautiful region.

I’d TOTALLY live in rural China, especially close to those rich cities such as Hangzhou. Convenient (albeit no TOO much, which can be kinda boring sometimes) but reclusive and green spaces, as well as a place way more linked with traditions than the big cities. Perfect.

I taught and lived in Lin'an outside of Hangzhou a couple of years ago. It was beautiful. I might also move to Nanjing Xianlin soon too. Let me know how you liked it there.

I absolutely love all the bamboo groves surrounding the countryside. Hope you find the perfect home to raise your chickens and ducklings.

having a job is really important it keeps your mind active & healthy even though i retired early due to the trend here in america. i wanted to say good luck with your new endeavor & your new rural home...

Hats off to your drive to embrace rural China, the heart and soul of the nation beneath the concrete and neons. Very few, even among a significant portion of Chinese population today, care to walk this only route to truly understand China. You're in for a career that will lead to something big.

太喜欢阳离子了！！每次看阳离子视频都有一种祥和平静的感觉

What you planned, is exactly what I would love to live and do even it's just for a year or more. That's real living!

Feel nostalgic after watched your video. 农村生活是很多年轻人回忆的一部分。 你的视频就像一座桥， 承载了很多从农村走出去在大城市打拼的年轻人的回忆。 很怀恋the sounds about goats, chicken in you clip. Hopefully can explore the roads you biked to feel it in- person. Thanks a lot. Love it

恭喜陽離子找到能適應目前生活的工作😀😀

Being a "foreigner" becomes a concrete reality in a rural setting. You can throw out the niceties and the cute animals. Living amongst vs. just passing through are two entirely different worlds. Katherine is even looking more like an adult these days. The adventure continues...

As a Hangzhouer, i'm so impressed by this video. Looking forword of more videos about the rural life in Hangzhou. There's definitely a lot to experience!

I was born in the place where you were visiting. And I finished my High school just several kilometers away from the place in your video. After many years studied outside of Hangzhou. I finally returned and now working in an Institue near the place I was born. I have seen many of your videos. Hopefully, I wish I can be your friend, because I like your videos a lot and willing to make some contribution for your videos career.

Good to see u back and biking again in the countryside. Brrh, it looks terribly cold if u only have wood fire to keep the house warm. Must say u r one tough gal from the US. All the best and hope u get the home of your choice.

You can do some "Shorts" whenever you have a minute. Whether it is riding down a country road, or just chatting with the chickens, or listening to the birds, we appreciate/enjoy any updates no matter how small.

I love the bamboo groves. I used to live in a village surrounded by a bamboo grove in China. I now live in NYC.

I just moved to Hangzhou countryside two weeks ago (coming from Germany). Now I have to look everyday if I see you passing our house with your bike :)

hangzhou... my dream city, i plan to study there before the pandemic start and now im not sure if i got the time.. i live in beijing 7years ago but rural hangzhou a bit different with rural beijing such a great experience to live in china to see things you think you know but you dont. Thanks for sharing the vlog kath.

很喜欢阳离子对于生活的态度，不是每个人都能坚持做自己。

Nice..😀 The fresh air and scenary look n feel like a good retirement place there😊

It’s good to see the lovely Katherine again.👏👏👏👍👍👍

Where is your husband? It’s been a while since we saw him in your videos. He is a funny guy.

I totally enjoy the quietness of the countryside though, so precious. Away from countryside there is constant noise of vehicles, so hard to get away.

WOW !! Nice to stay in Hangzhou. Take care and best wishes to you always.

Staying in rural area is an ideal way of life for sure, but I can see it's quite a challenge when you choose to live in proximity to big city in China🤔 Wish you good luck, Katherine 🙏

I love ❤️ this village. Praying for you always

Kathrine and the Rural China bike tours are back, love it. I see a new bike. I was already wondering with the "old" bike whether you have adjusted the seating position ergonomically. Since you ride your bike a lot, I would advise you as a former cyclist to adjust your seating position. So you could save a lot of power. My suggestion is the 4min video from adventuresportu: How to Set Your Bicycle Seat Height. Keep up the good work, thank you.

With relative cheap labour and materials (you could even do it yourself), you shouldn't have much problems transforming one of those properties into a dream home.

I love the view from the second to the last house. A bamboo forest outside your window is so cool🤩Shame it's too big to live in.

So professional. Can't wait to see if you got the house. Thanks for bringing the rural real china to us.

Happy to see your new update, hope you will enjoy your life in rural China.

Love the traditional country kitchen with the wood stove! A little more of a hassle, but so worth it when having guests over and cooking a meal for many!

Congratulation with the new job and exited for what is to come.

I was born and grew up in Hangzhou. Came to the U.S. in 1995. Now my daughter decided to go to NYU Shanghai for college and her reason was it’s boring to go to U.S. colleges. What a circle of life! I would imagine curiosity must play a role for your life choices.

Love your rural china content very much and good luck to your new job!

The best of luck, Katherine! Please do not worry the sporadic upload schedule of your videos. We your fans would understand perfectly. Your health, your personal happiness and the balance in your life are the priority. Happy Holidays and a prosperous 2023 to you and your family!

Since last year, I've been exploring some of Hangzhou's rural areas, and in Yuhang （余杭）and Linan（临安）I've discovered a lot of breathtaking places. Enjoy your life in Hangzhou!

Wow, this is really exciting and brave! Can you please do a quick update of your life and job situation? Did I miss a video or something? It looks like your entire arrangement has changed in the last 6 months.

great to hear you start to work full time

Rural anywhere in the world has one draw back is buying stuff and amenities! I hope you get to use your degree at your new job :p.

I prefer rural life too, and that's why I moved to US. I was born in a small village in hubei, and then go big cities for college and work , and now lived in SF bay area and quite enjoy the rural life here. Have fun.

can't believe it you are living in Hangzhou! RU-vid recommended your video to me years ago, it was a big surprise when I found we studied in the same university! And now we are in the same city! Rural areas in Hangzhou are definitely worth exploring.

Glad to see your new adventures and looking forward for more. Whatever happen between you and Wei? Did I miss something?

这边几乎不地震，但是这些老房子大概率抗不过7级地震，还是要稍微注意一下哈。不过确实，江浙沪也不是地震带，那些新房子看上去就舒服很多。 我一直想着能在福建老家，能修一个复式三层小楼，养喵喵和汪汪，门口花园，后院种菜～ 现在老家邻居们大多都是这些新小洋楼的样子了，真令人羡慕。

我去过杭州很多次，特别喜欢那里，祝你在杭州过得开心

Where is Mr. Wang ? Haven't seen him for a long time.

我也在杭州，哈哈！上次告诉你要开放了，准不准。

Good luck 🍀! You are bright gal! And brave one too. I’m Chinese myself and found it difficult to leave my familiar surroundings for other new pastures.

Welcome home! New bicycles? (Yellow and blue) Or were they rented bikes? Renting in the countryside is not too difficult in our area although you can never be 100% sure about how contracts will be observed. Buying of course is impossible, unfortunately. Glad the channel will continue, we've missed you. How is the other half doing?

Such young and brilliant outlook on life, cosmopolitan and driven, and connected with Mother Earth, but I'd think if you don't ride a bicycle for 24-30 hours non-stop out of Hangzhou city then you ain't really "rural"... more-like suburban... but I gather you're aiming for that rural feel/rural-like environment from what you're describing halfway thru the video...

Wishing your dream come true soon😊

It’s funny you said you felt nostalgic seeing roadside vendors in the Chinese countryside even you didn’t grow up in that environment. I feel nostalgic seeing you following your heart exploring the world even I thought my life goal was to find somewhere and settle down. You reminded me of someone I really miss.

Reminds me of a time long ago living in my Grandma's house in Zhongshan Shaxi. Except the house was probably built some time in the 1800's. Rural life has it's charms no doubt.

Hi,Catherine. I looked your previous videos repeatedly to wait to your new episode

接到推广啦！恭喜！Love from Nanjing

Hope everything is fine n u r doing well enough. Love your journey 💝♥️💗

It'll be nice to see you becoming a country girl and we can come along and experience it with you. Cheers to you from Edmonton Alberta Canada..

This is very interesting to me. I am American Caucasian, my wife is mainland Chinese. With my sister in law living in Hanzhou, we also toured a little bit into the surrounding country side. Only 20 minutes into the mountains there are clusters of beautiful spic and span tea fam houses. They all have pretty much the same 4 quadant floor plan, the shop room ground floor left. I pipe dreamed of getting one of those for retirement, but my wife said it is impossible. Allocation is strictly controlled. On the other hand, in my wifes home town in the provinces, house is no problem, nobody wants a standalone house. Everyone wants new condo. Renovation no problem. There are myriads of small home finishing contractors. All condo towers sell the units unfinished. Finishing is a huge business.

Happy to see you back in rural China, Katherine. I always look forward to all your videos. As a loyal subscriber and viewer for over a year I really have to ask you this. I'm not telling you what to do but I do feel like there's a cliff hanger that a lot of us would like you to update us on. Where is Wei?? I can understand if maybe you two broke up and you're just not ready to address it but I think it would be nice if you can update us on it in the near future. For some us, we have been literally following your life for a long time and in my personal opinion, I think you should let us in on what happened. I think it just feels like we are not getting all of Katherine's life even though these videos you make is a lot about your life in China. I know you still have a private life to protect but I hope you understand that having watch Wei in so many of your videos that not seeing him anymore abruptly is leaving us to wonder what happened to him each time I watch your videos. He was in so many of your videos. Kinda weird not seeing him anymore tbh. We need closure too so we can move on. Haha.. Thank you for understanding and as always thank you for making these fantastic videos.

I lived more than 5 years outside of Pingyao 瓶窑 in a little village called Penggong 彭公. It is not Convenient living in that kind of area and kind of boring. Going to the city took me an hour on good traffic conditions with my own car. Making friends with local villagers is difficult because life is just too different. However I wish you good luck on your endeavors.

You're going to have your hands full if you try to renovate the unfinished house, but the reward will be worthwhile. Going back to Mother Natural will be the future trend, besides you're going to get a more therapeutic life style.

Thanks for sharing your life update and the awesome work as always! Looking forward to learning about your new job

I'm glad you are continuing your rural explorations. I didn't even know that they were in danger of coming to an end. Lots of changes and new experiences for you now, and they'll be interesting, too.

good to see you again~

Amazed at your language skills. I’ve lived in Cyprus and Germany and speak both languages.

Great video. The rural area looks more vibrant than the village my mom showed me in 2019, which was a ghost town near Guangzhou in SE China (all people emigrated or live in nearby Kaipeng). Loved you showed the insides of the rural houses. It looks like my moms which we couldn't go in (she didn't have key to her abandoned family home). If I had the money, I retire to my mom's home & reno it.

Hi Kate, great to have you back again. In fact run thru this video few rounds to truly digest the contents 🤣. Glad your works involved traveling rural parts and the freedom to do vlog too. Happy house hunting. The last unit, as you said has d right vibes.💫. Looking forward for more insights of your new ventures n house hunting. Last, Merry Christmas 🌲and Happy New Year to all your dear ones.

hey she's back! 🥳

Thank you very much for this beautiful video. Wish you and your loved ones the best.😊❤️

最后一间真的是梦中情房了，而且居然还特别美式。。跟你真搭，阳离子必定要拿下啊，加油

Love you Kat, I’m from Hongkong, living in USA for 40 years, just retired unfortunately my dear wife passed away recently, I also tired of American way of living it’s not safe here, I think time for me to come home 🏠

Lovely little house and I can imagine the experiences you’re going to enjoy ❤

I wish I had your sense of positivity on the little things in life.

Where is Katherine's husband! Haven't seen him for awhile

I AN A NEW VIEWER and I happen to appreciate casual thing from far away place like China is so I enjoyed your bike ride. Thank you

Reminder: winter could be harsh in rural Hangzhou. Make sure you can do some work of insulation and absolutely need to consider the heating system

Great video on your back to China updates!! Glad to hear your journey will continue on this channel, yeah!!

Yes, the bike trip. Thank you!

You are so courageous to even think of living in a rural area, but it may be worth trying for a little bit, what a life experience!

There is a will, there is a way. Best wishes from LA

Bike view is very beautiful 😍

阳离子，我周末也经常在余杭乡下骑行，推荐苕溪绿道，期待偶遇

I admire your adventuresome spirit ❤ Thank you for sharing your life in China!😊👍👏🙏

Your Chinese tone is amazing

Congrats on your new job, I am sure all will work out well.

Hey Kate, is your partner moving there too or just yourself? The house is rather huge.

Oh, oh ,... the geese are back (10:14). Welcome to a new life, Katherine 2.0; we'll be rooting for you!

Only the last house is kinda livable to urban kids…. For maybe few months at most? And will need an electric pan rather than wood fired meal every time! Btw Where is Wei? Did you dump him? 😂 sorry to ask such rude question.