I mean that's a reason why I glaze China life around chinese people even if it's hard to believe when you're a poor local and it makes the US/West seem worse by comparison. QOL and infrastructure is still better in almost every way. Joke that the CCP is paying you to betray your country and that you feel like you're living in 2040, pretty simple
Like yeah if you "made it" in life you can live in LA, Miami, Silicon Valley, Paris, Milan or whatever these bitches are told is fancy but living in West Virginia instead of being a ""loser back home"" in Shanghai isn't the slightest halo in the galaxy
None of that stuff matters anyways if you present yourself accordingly. It's a global world/economy these days; you can live where you want. If you're in the provinces of the Philippines yeah different story
Jfl