Walking in China's urban villages, observing the lives of people at the bottom 

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OMG This is almost as noisy as a big-city ghetto in America!! Jesus Christ WTF is with all the honking...ridiculous!!! Sigh...no wonder Chinese people are so patient; they have such "great" training...!

Spent two-plus decades, beginning in 1998, working in Guangzhou, Ningbo, and Tianjin. I experienced China's best years for an American expat. Those days are long gone. You'd be well advised to consider another country. Sh*t's about to get real inside the mainland of China and smart expats are leaving in droves. You'll want to rethink the sentiment you expressed, Brian. Good luck.

I agree -- except the loudspeakers and whizzing motorbikes would piss me off no end so no I can't agree LOL

But much better than American poor neighbourhoods.

i'm not a big fan of the motorcycles

17:44 the boss

我没看到有无家可归的

USA is a 💩🕳

They do a good job keeping everything rather clean but obviously the people themselves are key and fortunately conscientious about litter! So unlike New York's many filthy Chinatowns -- I wonder why!

Huang Cho village city

Yeah despite the very clear signs forbidding it -- never mind the damned loudspeakers from popup street vendors...where's the authoritarian secret police when you need them LOL

Great question...now just imagine thousands of years ago when cities in China were already in the low millions!

How does any mail ever get delivered LOL there are no street signs hahahahahaha!!!

Jesus so many of those damned electric bikes (no scooters oddly enough??) with them exploding batteries...how do they do it??? Chinese are obviously very careful people!!! All over NYC people are dying from those stupid electric bikes and scooters and their batteries....

Yea I also want to know lol

He should visit the local pleasure-house...real vibes of Hong Kong's "Kowloon Walled City" here!

Common around China. I’m an American and I live in such an urban village and people are friendly though you will get stared at often

In China anything once labelled as village,it is always guarantee to be poor , backwards, etc if not the poorest,most backwards.

@@michaelzap8528 what does backward mean. people are uneducated? Junkies? extremists? if it is about earnings, cost of living in also low

@@fellowhuman4656人们会接受九年义务教育，然后进行教育分流一半的人进入普通高中一半的人进入职业学校。至于瘾君子，中国禁毒非常严。携带50克可卡因就会被判死刑，因此中国你基本见不到瘾君子。极端分子在十年前的西北地区有，他们无差别的杀害和他们意见不同的人。现在已经在高压打击下销声匿迹了。至于你说的收入和支出，笼统的说大城市收入高支出也高小城市收入少支出也少。当然具体情况看你自己的能力。

Al parecer tienen estándares bastante altos. Sin embargo seamos honestos la sobrepoblación, quizá lleve a muchos a vivir en espacios pequeños y no podrían comprar un auto, etc. Dudo que su problema sea de salud, o educación como en otros lados. También me he encontrado con discursos que buscan incentivar al ciudadano y al empresario a no caer en prácticas estilo Honk Kong o Corea del sur, con respecto a la calidad de la vivienda. Eso les llevará algo más de tiempo. Apparently they have pretty high standards. However, let's be honest, overpopulation may lead many to live in small spaces and they would not be able to buy a car, etc. I doubt that your problem is health or education like elsewhere. I have also come across speeches that seek to encourage citizens and businessmen not to fall into Honk Kong or South Korea style practices, with respect to the quality of housing. That will take a little more time.

It depends on your reference. Urban villagers locate in megacities. Of course the urban villages are the relatively poor regions in the megacities. But the urban villages in megacities are still richer than some very rural regions.

Usually $150 a month

Thats affordable as hell

@@Divosligo I suppose that depends on what the people are earning.

Roughly the equivalent of US$700 to $1K in general so still quite affordable, I'm glad to know! Unfortunately there's talk that many young folks -- even recent college grads -- can't find much work so that's troubling...hopefully next year will be so much better!!

Anybody knows what city this is? Thank you for your time 👋🇲🇽