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elliot_spencer · Joined: 26 Feb 2007 Posts: 495

Hey guys, I've been offered a job in Hangzhou with free accommodation. Is it possible to live comfortably there with 6000Yuan a month?

Thanks

thefuzz · Joined: 10 Aug 2009 Posts: 271

What do you mean by living comfortably?

Perhaps you should define what living comfortably means to you and maybe you'll get an answer to your question.

jiangsu · Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 43

I defined what living comfortably meant to me and no-one who had lived in Beijing bothered to reply to my Beijing question Laughing

I have travelled quite a bit around the Shanghai area - 6000RMB would probably normally be a good salary in a 'lesser' city, but with Suzhou and Hangzhou I am not so sure - they seemed pricier than Changzhou and other surrounding places although not quite as expensive as Shanghai.

So I think cost of living wise, you are looking at somewhere that is in between a second tier city and a first tier city like Shanghai. There are plenty of jobs in Hangzhou advertised at around 9000-10000RMB that I have considered myself, I see no reason why you wouldn't go for one of them because IIRC they just required a native speaker with BA/BSc.

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing

Is 6000 RMB calculated into your home country's currency a decent wage back home?

How many hours a week will you work?

What do they expect from you?

Can't answer your question until I know these...

jiangsu · Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 43

Zero · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 1402

9,000 to 10,000 a month in Hangzhou? Surely those are not your standard 16-ish hours a week university positions with apartment included? Sounds like a higher-hours gig, perhaps without housing. If I'm wrong, let me know -- maybe I'll head to Hangzhou.

jiangsu · Joined: 29 Sep 2009 Posts: 43

They were in Private Training Schools mainly, about 20-25 hrs a week.

killian · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 4:13 am Post subject:

6k is low.

Chris_Crossley · Posted: Wed Dec 02, 2009 5:00 am Post subject: I started on 5,500 RMB/mo myself

I only started on 5,500 RMB/mo myself, but that was eight years ago.

Even so, provided that one is not saddled with over-burdensome credit card debts (as I was back then - thankfully, no longer now), that amount of money, coupled with free accommodation provided by the school, was decent enough to live on (or at least would have been without the flaming debts!).

The Great Wall of Whiner · Joined: 29 Jan 2003 Posts: 4946 Location: Blabbing