Living in Singapore with so little allowance, we have to pay close attention to the commodity price. When we first went to Vivo City for shopping, we checked the price of everything extremely carefully. The things that we would buy without any doubt when in China now put us into consideration because the price turns out to be shocking when multiplied by 5. The common things in our Chinese daily life become sumptuous if we dare to buy them.
It’s really horrible to live under such a life that everything is 5 times higher than before. I had been worrying what if the money had run out and the supermarket became a place where you wanted to go out immediately after you went in. However, finally I realized that the commodity price is just a reflection of the country’s consumption. Once you have lived in a country, you have to get used to its commodity price. So now I don’t care that much when shopping but keep a prudent habit.
China is a developing country and the people don’t earn much. As a result the commodity price is a bit lower than that of Singapore. If we think in an opposite way, isn’t it very nice when we go shopping in China after we get used to here? The Malays sometime hate the Singaporeans and called them birds just because the Singaporeans often go to Malaysia to shop and keep saying “cheap cheap cheap”.
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Someday we will all get used to the price here! When you don't mutiply by five, products are fairly cheap actually. Let's put it in this way, we spend about 500 yuan in China, now we have $250. So it's proper to mutiply by 2, then the price won't turn out as frightening!
ReplyDeleteHaha, cheap cheap cheap! When we go back to China, we will also become birds, but i think it will only happen when we earn the same salary as Singaporeans' after graduation, or we cannot say "cheap" even in China if we earn a Chinese salary.
ReplyDeleteCan't agree with you more! MOE gives us so little, and after briefing course we have to pay the rent by ourselves, it will be a even hard time!
ReplyDeleteActually the wrold famous brands' price is almost the same or even lower than that in china. But because we are not rich, so they are too far away with us. we have receive the fact that the commodity price is higher. But another important point is that almost all the goods in singapore is true, which is not very common in china.
ReplyDeleteWhether the commodity price is high or low is relative to the income residents get, rather than to that of other countries, I think.
ReplyDeleteTo Singaporeans, the commodity price here is quite okay because they earn far more. I still remember that a befriender looked so surprised when we complained about the "high" price here.
For a Singaporean,the price is very nice. it's the same price in NOMBER with chinese price. But i'm now getting use to it and don't multiplied the price by 5.
ReplyDeleteActually, the price here is not very different from that in Beijing or Shanghai;anyway, Im going to Malaysia to buy a lot of stuffs!
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