As I look back upon my years, I notice that I’ve moved a lot. About every year. I don’t know why this is so. I’ve lived with roommates, I’ve lived by myself, and in my time in Shenzhen and Guangzhou since 2009 I have moved about ten times. Still, for some reason, my previous apartment held a record for me: I stayed there for two whole years.
But then the lease ran out. I opted not to renew. At the same time, my girlfriend’s lease ran out and her landlord insisted on taking back the apartment. We proceeded to look for a new apartment. It wasn’t easy, but after a month of searching we finally found the perfect place. As the real estate bubble in China ever grows, prices have been going up and it’s not like it was back in the day. The tricky part is to find a good-sized clean place that’s not too far from the city center yet affordable.
Moving always sucks, but we made do. Moving two people into one house sucks twice as much, but I can make do. I actually find unpacking kind of fun. Organized books, collectibles, clothes. I am not the kinda expat who lives out of my suitcase, I like a lived in home.
And now I have made that major step. We live together. Without further ado, I present the Chinglish from my snazzy new apartment complex…
There you are. Here’s how the apartment actually looks by the way, while I’m Instagram sharing:
Also had a housewarming party last weekend that was awesome (pictures don’t do justice, take my word), it was quite the Shenzhen scene gathering if I do say so myself.
So, I hope you would like to come visit sometime! There’s a guest bedroom and everything. We want visitors.
Wish you luck on your next move as well 🙂
Ray-Comics 
Love the look of your current place. Light, spacious, and airy. I like my living quarters like that, and big enough to move around easily but small enough so that I don’t have to spend lots of time cleaning. Would love to come over, Ray. It looks like a good place to hang out, chat and just chill 🙂
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Seriously, come over any time!
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Apartment looks great…no idea what those Chinglish meaning are – ha ha.
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Looks like a nice apartment.
Pay a visit routeway? Is that a toll route to pay someone a visit? If so, no thanks.
Don’t play in Devator? For the sake of it I googled “Devator”, and all it came up with was a couple usernames on random websites and some YouTube clips of Counter Strike matches. It’s not in English so I don’t know what’s going on, but I take it Devator is one of the teams. I guess this sign says you shouldn’t join them.
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I witnessed a “high altitude discarding” a couple of days ago. I was walking the dog and some asshole threw the rubbish bag from the window… wtf.
The apartment looks very nice!
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Even with the translations I still can’t tell what they mean.
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Thanks all for the positive comments on my new apartment! 🙂
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Really nice place, Ray. I hope you stay as long in this one as you did the last one. That’s tough you had to move so many times in the past – unreasonable landlords right?
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Cheers to many more such adventures in life! Wonderful place you’ve got there 🙂
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Congrats on your move. I find it takes about a year for things to shake out – for me to figure out good friends, places, etc. Are those Ikea shelves I detect? Cool digs.
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