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Tigerstyleone
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 Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:50 am Post subject: Start up costs in Shenzhen |
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I don't have much money now, around 30,000 RMB.
Will that be enough to get my visa, apartment, living expenses and buy me time to stack some PT work?
or am I cutting it a little close. I can stay put and save more, but I'm just so tired of this land of morning calm and want to move to China. |
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7969
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
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Location: Coastal Guangdong
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:58 am Post subject: Re: Start up costs in Shenzhen |
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| Tigerstyleone wrote: |
I don't have much money now, around 30,000 RMB.
Will that be enough to get my visa, apartment, living expenses and buy me time to stack some PT work?
or am I cutting it a little close. I can stay put and save more, but I'm just so tired of this land of morning calm and want to move to China. |
I'm in Shenzhen myself right now, and it's a good place to live and work so I think you made a good choice.
In an earlier post you say you're coming to China to do freelance work only. So that means an F visa and you'll be bearing all expenses in the country on your own. If you plan to live in your own flat and since the first few months in a new city are always more expensive you'll burn through 30,000 in less than four months by my reckoning. You could find a room-mate to start out with to reduce your costs a lot and there are places you can find rooms for rent, but that might not be what you want. And if things don't work out in Shenzhen as planned you might want to leave for greener pastures, which will require more money, and by the time that happens your cash might have run out.
You could take a job with a school in Shenzhen and use the salary and the time (first six months or year) to get used to the city, then branch out on your own.
But if you want to freelance from the moment you arrive you're cutting it close. Save more money is my advice. |
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Tigerstyleone
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| Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:19 am Post subject: |
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It does cost a lot to start out in a new city, and if things don't work out then I could be homeless.
Good Advice. I'll save more and maybe head there in winter. |
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xjgirl
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now is a good time because the training centres get more students in july and august, thus they take on more teachers, get on to some local shenzhen expat websites, find someone looking for a house-mate(u can move out and find ur own place once u know the city better and once 2 or 3 training centres have u working part-time work)
so fly over ASAP |
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Johnny_Utah
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| HURRY shenzhen needs you. XXGIRL needs you here ASAP |
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time to teach
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Location: Bangkok
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30K is enough rmb to get started in Shenzhen especially if you know how to budget and don't mind budgeting until you start teaching or making some steady income.
There are jobs here you could get the day after you arrive, places like Hampson English, which is similar to adult 1-to-1 centers in S. Korea. There are many summer K to language mill jobs now, places you could make some green at and then move on to greener pastures later.
Figure between 6-10K to get into an apartment, unless you rent a room/share a place with other(s), which would be about half that.
Try to arrange a place to live BEFORE you arrive on www.shenzhenparty.com
Relocation would be your biggest expense until after you moved into your new place.
Figure around 2500 rmb per month for food until you get on your feet.
With 30K, you could probably get situated in SZ and live without a job for about 6 months, maybe longer if you budget wisely.
Might be best to find a job before you arrive too, just to be on the safe side. |
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