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The title sounds happy but if you’re chinese, that’s a call of desperation due to social norm.

For sons in particular, it’s down to the Bank of Mum and Dad - and underpinned by the marriage market.[…]

[…]Chinese parents know their sons’ chances of marrying well are materially increased if they own a home.

Dr Jieyu Liu, deputy director of the SOAS China Institute, told the BBC: "It is the custom that husbands will provide a home.

No home no car = no marriage. Idk if you want that.

The article also pointed to France, but also stated they chose not to own a house and prefer renting. Mainland Chinese(or Asian in particular) need to do it due to social expectation. Using the materialistic culture to proof your communism point is…ironic.

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This makes me think about the high quality government housing in Vienna.And that 62 percent of Vienna’s citizens live in it. It’s so sick looking and I’m so jealous.

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does anyone remember the last time the ccp got the numbers right? anyone at all?

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They got 1989 right.

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They don’t own it. They leased it for 99 years from the country. A lease that can be revoked

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It’s also not a communist nation in much but name.

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If Evergrande even actually built it.

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Go ahead, move to China and say your opinion on the street.

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I guess nobody’s selling avocado toasts in China.

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