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Rising Prices Are Bad, but Plummeting Prices Are Worse: Americans may envy China’s deflation. They shouldn’t (CW: The Atlantic) (archive.ph)
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Living in China is getting cheaper. Because rents in my neighborhood in central Beijing are dropping, my wife and I pressed our landlord to reduce ours by $140 a month in a new lease that we signed last month. He wasn’t too happy about it, but he’s lucky that we didn’t move out. Given the desperation of local landlords, we probably could’ve saved another $500 a month had we switched to a comparable apartment nearby.

BUT AT WHAT COST?

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[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Legitimately, what is their retirement plan if the value is stored in the house? Sell it and live on the streets?

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

sell the house, pay a few years' rent to the assisted living prison where they go to die

[–] SuperZutsuki@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

Ah, so sell the house to some private equity company and fuck over their kids/family/the local community by creating another rental. We need multi-generational households back already.