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As China's economy slows, some young people are snapping up cheap apartments to 'retire' early

Posted 3/1/26

As China’s property market craters and youth unemployment rises, burned-out young professionals are fleeing megacities for ultracheap housing in remote towns. At the semiabandoned “Life in …

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