Prices
What things cost and to whom: model prices per task, groceries by channel, a monthly city budget, container rates by route.
- Getting a phone number in China: channels and prices Life in China·2026-10-11 ·11 min read
Where a visitor can buy a SIM, what real-name registration asks for, the filed prices by carrier, and when a mainland number is actually needed.
- Paying in China as a foreigner: what works, what it costs Life in China·2026-10-11 ·9 min read
Four official pages print four different foreign-card limits for Alipay and Weixin Pay. Each platform's own wording, with a source and a read date.
- How renting works in China, from listing to deposit Life in China·2026-10-11 ·12 min read
Which channel charges a fee and who may hold your money, the clauses a lease has to contain, and the official route when a deposit is withheld.
- Seeing a doctor in China as a foreigner: fees and waits Life in China·2026-10-11 ·9 min read
A passport gives you a patient record at a Chinese hospital, but booking channels, fee tracks and waits differ by hospital. Rules and waiting-time data.
- Container rates by route, and why the indices disagree Supply chain·2026-10-09 ·9 min read
Public container freight index readings for the main Asia-outbound lanes, each with its as-of date, what the indices measure, and what a quote adds.
- 八个城市的月支出，拆到每一项 海外华人·2026-10-09 ·9 min read
多伦多、温哥华、纽约、洛杉矶、悉尼、墨尔本、东京、伦敦，按月把房租、水电网络、交通、超市、外食、手机、医保拆开，每个数字带来源和日期，口径不同的地方单独写清。
- 同款比价：口径不写在旁边，数字就没意义 海外华人·2026-10-09 ·8 min read
五件写了具体型号的东西，中国官方标价与美加官方标价并排摊开；首重续重、体积重除数、行邮税与跨境电商税、汇率取数日逐条写明，算不出的格子写没核到。
- What groceries cost in China, channel by channel Life in China·2026-10-09 ·10 min read
Early market, wet market, corner shop, warehouse club, delivery app: unit prices by category where a public source exists, plus three monthly baskets.
- From token prices to task prices: three jobs, seven APIs AI and engineering·2026-10-09 ·12 min read
I priced three concrete jobs on seven model APIs using each vendor's own pricing page, and wrote down every assumption the conversion rests on.