How to SURVIVE in Beijing from only 1000RMB?!

Just for your info esp. those who haven’t been to China before, 1000RMB is like 100 Euro, and the expenditure in China (well, big big city like Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen) would be like a budget meal around 5 RMB, a room to rent – in the big city at least 500RMB, one way subway in Beijing is 3RMB, taxi starts with 10 RMB and usually a 15 mins ride cost like 15RMB without traffic jam…

I was reading an article online named “Life in 10 cities of China with 1000RMB”, after reading it… I was kind of silent… for a while. 1000RMB was the expend of mine during my univ life, but I didn’t have to pay for dorm and transportation was not an everyday thing for me at that time, still most of the time, I would need to use my saving from the scholarship or the pocket money my mom put into the credit card secretly. I can’t imagine life in Beijing – including the room rent but only 1000. Not like that I could not survive, but if you can read that article, you would have the same feeling as mine – the interviewee described her life in Beijing as – no social activities, no chance to learn more, not able to just go around, not even proper food…no love life!! – cuz she simply can’t afford it. How will you understand this sentence? I never had that experience before that one would say that I’m too poor or earning too less for having a boy/girl friend. I believe what she told was true, but just made me feel so bad that people can’t even afford LOVE only because of the stupid money – I’m not blaming them!

Going to Odense tomorrow… wish you a nice weekend!

Love from the a-bit-lonely-and-sentimental Friday night in Copenhagen, lighting up my candle…