When you live in a Chinese city, your neighborhood has a certain status level that determines how much tax you pay. If you want to move to a nicer, higher-status neighborhood, you have to start by paying taxes at the higher rate for some period of time.
Once you get past a certain age, you are no longer eligible to move to a higher-status neighborhood.
You’ll never catch me setting foot in that country ever again.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
