Blog Tag - House Hunting
Whenever I told people I was apartment hunting in Beijing or Shanghai, I often got asked one specific question: “have you tried Ziroom?” I’ll have to...
Navigating the rental market in any big city can be a daunting task. As a foreigner, finding an apartment in Beijing compounds those difficulties...
We’ve lived in three different places during our four years in Beijing and house-hunting here is up there among my most loathed pastimes. Who doesn’t...
Rear View takes a jocular look at some of the experiences that make Beijing such a fun place to live (if they don't break you first).
Our suspicions...
“You realize the romanticism of courtyard living wore off for me in the first 14 years of my life? Also, the pipes in the bathroom are frozen again...
Mandarin Monday is a weekly column where – similar to our Mandarin Month series earlier this year – we help you improve your Chinese by detailing fun...
Our landlord just jacked up our rent by RMB 2,000 per month. Although this was for the entire three-bedroom flat in an area that is increasingly...