Why did I choose to live in Shenzhen. There are quite a few reasons.

為何我選擇住在深圳

But the first and probably the most important reason is that Shenzhen is a

有幾點理由

first-tier city

首先 最重要的原因是

and I've been getting a lot of questions about

深圳是一線城市

the tier system because I do mention it in my videos. I mentioned, you know, Shenzhen being first-tier. Huizhou being second

我被問到一些關於城市分級的問題

sorry, third-tier.

因為我在影片中常提到深圳是一線城市

And so I thought I'd talk about the differences between you know first-tier city and say for instance a third-tier city in China.

惠州是二線 抱歉 是三線城市

Alright. What's up guys. We're out here with Winston and Prozzie. Stay Awesome!

我想到我要聊聊之間的差異

So I'm here with a friend of mine who happens to live in a third-tier city.

一線城市和三線城市之間

So I thought we just discuss what the difference is between living in say for instance Shenzhen and

在中國

Huizhou where you live. So

好的 大家好 我們現在在這裏 有Wiston 和 Prozzie

let's kind of try to explain the whole tier thing to you first. There are only four "first-tier" cities in China.

Stay awesome

That would be Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.

我旁邊是住在三線城市的朋友

That's it. Everybody thinks there's more, but there's not.

我們要討論一下之間的差異

Prozzie: right.

舉例深圳和你所住的惠州

Those are the best cities, means, it's got the most modern infrastructure.

因此

It's got like for instance, there's a stock exchange here in Shenzhen.

讓我們先跟你解釋一下

There's one in Shanghai, and they're quite a few things that qualified as being first here that basically means

只有4個一線城市在中國

it's at the "top of the pops" in China.

那就是深圳、上海、北京和廣州

Prozzie: The highest quality of cities. I guess you could say. First-world.

就這些 每人想說還有其它 但沒有了

Yeah, there we go. There are a bunch of new cities

沒錯

that are kind of on a waiting list to become first-tier and who knows by the end of this video

這些是最好的城市

maybe or in 100 years who knows anyway.

意謂著有最現代化的基礎建設

I wanted you to start off by just explaining to everybody what it's like living in a third-tier city,

有股票交易所 在深圳這裏

which is Huizhou, and then we can do some comparisons.

有一個在上海

Prozzie: Yeah. I mean living living in a city like Huizhou

還需一些條件才合乎一線城市的基本資格

you're not going to get all of the sort of western amenities that you're so used to here in Shenzhen.

在中國的頂端

Every time I come here. I feel a bit spoiled like we just had a nice lunch thing.

最高品質的城市

You're not going to get that in a third-tier city.

也可以說是第一世界

It's a lot more, as a foreigner anyways, you're going to feel a lot more

有一堆大城市 等著進入一線城市行列

um...

誰知道 也許這部影片結束之後

I guess you could say uh. What's the word I'm looking for?

也許是1百年後 誰知道

not "excluded" but

我要你先跟每個人說明描述一下

Winston: When you mean in the first-tier or third-tier?

住在惠州這三線城市是怎樣的

Prozzie: Third-tier. You feel a lot more like "isolated" I guess.

我們可以做一些比較

Winston: "Isolated". Yep.

住在惠州這樣的城市

The foreign community is a lot more tight-knit everyone kind of knows each other.

你是看不到西方設備

You know, someone does something, everyone knows about it. It's very

這些以前深圳就看得到的

"small townie-ish", I guess, because there's less foreigners there. It's perceived as quite a bit "smaller".

每到這裏 我覺得有點受竉若驚

Yeah, I mean living in a city like Huizhou also a lot less regulated.

就像我們剛吃過的午餐

I find then Shenzhen. Shenzhen is very... you guys get like

在三線城市是看不到的

police and

多很多

security and everyone's just kind of

身為一個外國人 就感覺有點

"regulated" I guess in a weird way. Which I know for you it might not seem like that.

嗯

Winston: It is. It is.

你可能會說

Prozzie: Yeah, but in a Huizhou. I mean, you know, you can ride motorcycles, but then it's also kind of illegal.

我想個正確的字眼

It's like this grey area, right?

不是排擠於外 但

It's just yeah.

你的意思是說 在一線或三線

I mean.

在三線城市

I could go on for days the differences between, I mean, you know you've been to Huizhou

你會感受到有些被隔絶於世

every week for the last couple years.

隔絶於世

Winston: I mean. Yeah. It is a gray area sort of a thing.

外國族群會更緊密

It's more like the wild west. You can get away with a lot. Like for instance,

每個人都相互認識

you said, riding a bike when it is currently illegal in Huizhou you go can

某人做什麼事 大家都曉得

and as long as you just kind of avoid certain areas. You'll get away with it.

非常地

You can kind of do stupid things that you wouldn't be able to do here. Prozzie: Oh definitely,

小鎮風情

yeah, for sure.

因為在那裏很少外國人

Winston: So you've got that extra freedom, but it comes at a cost and the cost is that everything's kind of chaotic and rundown, you know.

可以感受到有點小

Prozzie: Yeah, I mean, that's one thing...

住在惠州也會比較少受到監控

I don't really like about living in Huizhou is that you're gonna get a lot of

我發覺到深圳

just lower quality things and I mean everything. The buildings are falling apart

深圳就常看到

You know, the people are a lot less

警察和

I shouldn't say. I sound horrible if I say that but... Winston: A little less civilized.

警衛

Prozzie: Yeah, well, yeah. A little less civilized. A little less...ah...

每個人就像是受到

Winston: It's just the fact. People, you can say what you want, but you come here yourself

被監控

you come and spend a day in Huizhou, and you spend a day in Shenzhen. You'll see people are more sophisticated here.

用非常奇怪的方法

Prozzie: Yeah. You know it comes down to money as well, people in Shenzhen obviously make...

你應該不喜歡這種方式

Winston: A lot more.

就是這樣

Prozzie: Usually make quite a bit more money than people in Huizhou.

但 在惠州

Winston: you have to and that's another thing

你能騎機車 雖然也是不合法

we should talk about is cost of living now. That's a big plus for you.

就像是灰色地帶 對吧

I mean. Tell me how big is your apartment and how much do you spend?

就有點

ah...

我可以連續好幾天來聊差異

Prozzie: Ah... Jesus. I don't know how big it is.

我的意思 你就來過惠州

Winston: Would you say it's bigger than 100 square meters?

前幾年每個禮拜

Prozzie: I've only got one bedroom, but it's a decent size apartment. I've got my living room.

它是一個灰色地帶

I've got a separate kitchen and a separate bathroom

更像美國蠻荒西部

and it's nice, and it's in the most expensive part of Huizhou in the kind of "New Development Area".

你能暫時拋開一些東西 就像例子

and it cost me about

你說騎機車 現在在深圳是不合法的

1,800 RMB (185 USD) every month right and that's the top, the tippy top, that you're going to get for a

你還是能騎 只要避開某些地區

normal apartment. Of course you can get some crazy five-star apartments but that's like the top your gonna get for a normal apartment.

你還是能騎著車拋開一切 做些愚蠢的事

What do..ah.. what would you pay here in Shenzhen?

卻不能在這裏做

Winston: Okay. I got a 45 square meter apartment. It's tiny.

絶對地 確定

Basically it's the size of most people's kitchen. You know maybe smaller. It's tiny. It's horrible. I can't stand it. It's badly lit.

所以 你得到極度的自由 但也有成本

You know. There's like one window in the bedroom.

成本就是每件事都混亂和破舊

there's no window in the

有一件事

Living room. The kitchen doesn't even have a place bigger than, like, this to prepare food on. It's terrible.

我真的不喜歡 當我住在惠州時

And it's rundown, and it's crap but it's in one of the best areas. So for that 45 square meter apartment

就是會看到很多的

I'm getting a good deal. I'm paying 4,500 RMB (662 USD) a month.

就是些低品質的事物

That's a good deal.

我的意思是 每樣東西

That's only because my wife knows the owner but usually they go for about six to eight thousand for those tiny little places.

建築物很破舊

So you know that cost of living is...

居民比較少有……

Prozzie: Through the roof.

我應該說 假如我這麼說就挺嚇人的

Prozzie: That's one of the reasons why I chose Huizhou. Third-tier city is so much cheaper.

比較少文明化

Winston: Yeah

比較少文明化

But you're paying for what you get for, right? Like you're gonna pay quite a bit more money... quite a bit more money

這是事實

but you live in the better parts of town.

大家 你怎麼說都行 但親自來一趟

Winston: Yeah, I can go downstairs.

你花一天去惠州 一天來深圳

There's a nice supermarket, shopping malls, access to the subway straightaway. So yeah, it makes up for it.

你就可能看到 這裏居民更尖端文明

Yeah, that high-speed internet at least for China

經濟也更寬裕 在深圳更明顯地很有錢

Um.

多很多

You know that kind of thing so it's kind of worthwhile.

通常比住在惠州的居民 賺更多的錢

What about parking?

那正是另件事

Ah Yeah, I mean...

我們現在聊聊生活成本

That even you were talking about your parking. I had a car not too long ago, and you could park it literally anywhere.

對你來說是大加分的優勢

It's cheaper. Parking for me

你的房子是多大 要多少租金

cost

嗯

120 RMB (18 USD) a month.

天啊 我不知它有多大

Winston: That's nothing. Yeah.

有比100平方米還大嗎

For me, it's about five to... no. What am I saying?

我那裏只有1個卧室 但是個漂亮大房子

It's way more than that because I just got back. 40 days was 1,020 so it's probably about

有客廳、有獨立的廚房和單獨衛浴

700 RMB (103 USD) a month or something like that where I...

很漂亮 在惠州最貴的地段

Prozzie: You can... you can get an apartment for that much money like rent

在類似新開發地區

I also wanted to debunk this kind of idea,

我大約花費

I think a lot of western people have is, that if they go to a smaller city

月租1800元人民幣($185 USD)

they're going to get more culture or they're going to get more kind of Chinese-esque

那是高的 高端的 一般的公寓

Ah...

當然 你也可住很豪華的五星級公寓

feeling or you know. I don't think that's true after coming to Shenzhen enough. You do get

但它算是一般公寓的最頂端

Shenzhen is a much more of a lively place. I feel like people think that just because there's more foreigners here. It's more western. It's more ...ah

你在深圳要付多少房租

you know, it's lost some of its Chinese culture. Just because there's more of an international community here.

好的 我住45平方公尺的公寓

I can say that after being, you know, in Guangdong area for three years that it's just not true.

比較小

Winston: I agree. But in small little kind of

基本上 有大部份都有的那種廚房

alleyways, and there have been villages here, and you see everything that you'll see in Huizhou, if not more.

也許更小一點

Yeah, and then you can just walk down the street

小小的 可怕的

And you got like really nice restaurants and really cool infrastructure and things to see. A good mix of both worlds. Yeah.

沒地方站 非常慘

Prozzie: I would agree. Yeah. Where as Huizhou you're only gonna get

卧室只有一個窗戶

I mean. Yeah, it's tough. If you watch what C-Milk put on his videos, you kind of see what I'm talking about.

客廳沒有個窗子

You're not gonna get the crazy skyscrapers here, but you're also not going to get the alleyways. Yeah, it's all big open kind of

廚房也不太大 像來煮個東西

roads, and you know.

很可怕 又破舊 又很爛

Winston: Let's talk about public transport for a moment because that's something I love about Shenzhen.

但它是在最好的地點

Hop on the metro, get anywhere, and it's expanded all over the place. You can literally pretty much go.

因此 那45平方公尺的公寓

You can sit on the metro for like an hour and a half and get to some far-flung place

我租得很便宜

that's still a part of Shenzhen. Miraculously.

-月租是4500元人民幣($662 USD) -天啊

Even though it's passed the airport and it's in this weird, in fact, you want to see Huizhou

那算租得便宜

it's pretty much the same as going to Huizhou in those far, far flung places

是因為我老婆認識房東

but this amazing underground network which is probably going to be the biggest in the world soon.

但通常還是有人想辦法 花6到8仟人民幣來租這種小公寓

I think that's their plan and you've got buses that go everywhere.

所以 你就知道生活費用就是……

You got taxis that go everywhere. All the time. 24/7 so. Well not the buses, the taxis. What about in Huizhou?

高過屋頂

Prozzie: Oh uh yeah, I mean, I don't use public transport in Huizhou because I've got a motorcycle, but um

這也就是我選擇惠州的原因之一

you know I take a taxi from time to time if I don't... my bike is not available. Also very convenient. Cheaper.

三線城市便宜多了

Yeah, I think we start at 7 RMB. You start at 10.

你付多少就得多少 對吧

Winston: 10.

像是你多付多一點錢

Prozzie: And they yeah, they would go all over the city. Taxis are quite nice

就能夠住在城市裏較好的地區

but you mentioned the subway, which I love about Shenzhen. Cause of course,

沒錯 我能下樓去

I don't have a vehicle here, so I have to take public transport. Yeah, the subways set up here is like nothing

就有超級市場、購物中心、直接有捷運可搭

I've ever seen before. It's incredible and it's clean and it's cheap. Huizhou..

所以 還算得值得

we just got one subway line and it's a joke. It runs like once an hour. If you're a foreigner

還有很快的網路速度 至少在中國算不錯

you have to use your passport and it's more expensive.

嗯

It's just... it's... it's not... the City's not big enough to have a subway system, but the public transport

有這些 就還算是划算

Ok buses, how much is the bus here?

停車問題

Winston: It starts at about 2 RMB (0.30 USD)

那

to go like a couple of stops and then I think the

你曾聊過停車問題的主題

maximum it can go for, if you're on the bus like over an hour, it's like 7

我買車還沒很久

Prozzie: Ok yeah. it's one RMB in Huizhou to go pretty much anywhere.

你能隨處就停車

But I would not I don't think too many foreigners take the bus.

很便宜

Winston: Yeah, there's a reason for that. It's the same here.

停車費 花費我

There's no English on the bus.

每個月 120元人民幣($18 USD)

So, you know, like you really need to know where you're going and be able to recognize the place or know the name.

那就不算很多

Yeah, so even for a seasoned foreigner to take a bus here can be quite daunting because you need to be able to understand Chinese.

我就花費大約5到…

Yeah, pretty straightforward. Do you have a system like we have here in Shenzhen. We got something called the "Shenzhen Tong"?

不是 我在說什麼

Just like a card. It's like an Octopus card. You can basically

那差太多了

use... you can use it in a taxi now.

我剛回來 停了40天花費1020元人民幣

You can use it in the subway, on all the buses and you can even in

或許是每個月700元人民幣($103 USD)

7-Elevens and stuff buy drinks and stuff with. Do you have anything like that there?

你住這種公寓 就要多付點停車位租金

Prozzie: I don't think we do. We might and I could be wrong

我也要探討揭露某種想法

but I'm pretty sure we don't just because we don't have a subway system.

我認為很多外國都有的觀念

The buses are less common. We have a lot more e-bikes and things like that and plus with WeChat pay.

假如他們去較小的城市

That's definitely the most common way of paying is with your phone. I don't think we have that card.

就能看到更多的文化

Winston: It's actually quite cool in Shenzhen. You can get a sim card for your phone

就會得到更多中國式的

which has that built-in so you can use a phone to like use the subway and pay for stuff and all that.

感覺

Just by like, beeping it. Cause the sim card acts as like an NFC thing. It's pretty sweet.

我不認為那是事實

Prozzie: We don't have that fancy stuff Huizhou.

在來到深圳多次之後

Winston: So I mean, that's the thing though.

你就會知道 深圳是個更熱鬧的地方

There's a huge difference between tier 1 and

我認為是因為這裏有很多外國人

tier 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, tier 88. We call tier 88 it's like the worst. Of course,

它更西方化 更…

I think there... I think there are only like three or four tiers.

你知道 它失去很多中國文化

Correct me if I'm wrong. In fact, I'm going to "Wiki" it. I'll put it up

只因為這裏有很多國際化社群

so I don't get my facts wrong.

我會這麼說是 在廣東地區住3年之後

But having been around the whole of China

這些就不是真的

From the very north to the very south I've seen pretty much everything China has to offer. I've been to the other tier 1 cities

我同意

a bunch of the tier 2 and tier 3, excetera.

但 在這種小的

Shenzhen still my favorite for a number of reasons. Number one, you might agree with me here, proximity to Hong Kong.

巷道

Prozzie: That's huge.

和到過這裏的鄉村

Winston: You can literally just pop over. Now something that sucks for me, but it's actually really good for you

你都可以在惠州全看得到