{"id":10252,"date":"2019-11-18T19:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-reading\/shocking-cost-of-living\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T19:53:41","slug":"shocking-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/shocking-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Shanghai is one of the most expensive cities in China, with local residents spending 30,520 yuan($ 4,914) per capita in 2014. A Shanghai couple, however, has made a shocking claim that they lived happily on one third of that amount last year.<br \/>  \u4e0a\u6d77\u662f\u4e2d\u56fd\u6d88\u8d39\u6c34\u5e73\u6700\u9ad8\u7684\u57ce\u5e02\u4e4b\u4e00\uff0c2014\u5e74\u4eba\u5747\u6d88\u8d39\u6027\u652f\u51fa\u662f30520\u5143\uff0c\u4f46\u6709\u7f51\u53cb\u53d1\u5e16\u8868\u793a\u592b\u59bb\u4e24\u4eba\u5728\u4e0a\u6d77\u5168\u5e74\u53ea\u82b1\u4e862\u4e07\u5143\uff0c\u800c\u4e14\u751f\u6d3b\u5f97\u5f88\u5e78\u798f\u3002<\/p>\n<p>  A 43-year-old netizen(\u7f51\u53cb) says in a popular o<em><\/em>nline forum(\u8bba\u575b) that he and his 39-year-old wife spent(\u82b1\u8d39) less than 20,000 yuan($2318) last year. He adds that they live in their own house, have no jobs, no kids and no cars.<\/p>\n<p>  The netizen has made a list(\u6e05\u5355) breaking down how the mo<em><\/em>ney was spent&mdash;1,000 yuan a mo<em><\/em>nth for meals, 50 yuan for tea, 300 yuan for watermelons (no other fruits), 340 yuan for TV access fees, 40 yuan for property-related fees, 20 yuan for a cell phone the couple shares, 50 yuan for transportation fees, 200 yuan for some medicine, 240 yuan a mo<em><\/em>nth for a buffet dinner(\u81ea\u52a9\u9910). The total amount(\u603b\u6570) thus reached 19,580 yuan.<\/p>\n<p>  The couple didn&#8217;t buy any new clothes or cosmetics. Neither(\u4e5f\u4e0d) did they socialize with(\u4e0e&#8230;\u4ea4\u5f80) friends and relatives, or go traveling.<\/p>\n<p>  Explaining how they could live like that, the couple says they have three houses worth 5 million yuan in total, 1.5 million yuan in cash(\u73b0\u91d1), and stocks worth 500,000 yuan. Apparently, they enjoy the current lifestyle(\u751f\u6d3b\u65b9\u5f0f): no work, (almost) no expense, and no pressure.<\/p>\n<p>  \u91cd\u70b9\u8bcd\u6c47 Key words:<\/p>\n<p>  \u751f\u6d3b sh\u0113ng hu&oacute;<br \/>  living\/ live\/life\/livelihood<\/p>\n<p>  n.<\/p>\n<p>  \u5e78\u798f\u751f\u6d3b a happy life <br \/>  \u65e5\u5e38\u751f\u6d3b daily life&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>  \u751f\u6d3b\u6210\u672c cost of living <br \/>  \u7236\u4eb2\u9760\u81ea\u5df1\u7684\u53cc\u624b\u52c9\u5f3a\u7ef4\u6301\u751f\u6d3b\u3002<br \/>  &nbsp;My father gained a bare livelihood of family by his own hands.&nbsp; <br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp; <br \/>  &nbsp;\u70ed\u7231\u751f\u6d3b\uff0c\u751f\u6d3b\u4e5f\u4f1a\u539a\u7231\u4f60\u3002<br \/>  &nbsp; If you love life, life will love you back.<br \/>  v.<\/p>\n<p>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u4e00\u4e2a\u4eba\u8131\u79bb\u793e\u4f1a\u5c31\u4e0d\u80fd\u751f\u6d3b\u4e0b\u53bb\u3002<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; One cannot live cut off from society.<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \u5979\u5728\u8fd9\u91cc\u751f\u6d3b\u4e8610\u5e74\u4e86\u3002<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; She has lived here for 10 years&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>  \u82b1\u8d39 hu\u0101 f&egrave;i<br \/>  spend\/expense<\/p>\n<p>  v. \u4ed6\u82b1\u8d39\u5de8\u8d44\u5728\u5927\u697c\u91cc\u5b89\u88c5\u4e86\u4e00\u53f0\u7535\u68af\u3002<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp; He spent a lot of mo<em><\/em>ney to install a lift in the building.<\/p>\n<p>  n. \u8fd9\u7b14\u82b1\u8d39\u4f60\u80fd\u62a5\u9500\u5417\uff1f<br \/>  &nbsp;&nbsp; Can you claim this back on expenses?<br type=\"_moz\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1688437475\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai is one of the most expensive cities in China, with local residents spending 30,520 yuan($ 4,914) per capita in<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2844],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-reading","category-short-articles"],"views":198,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/vi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}