High Real Estate Prices Make Young Men Do Stupid Things

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From NetEase:

Henan man incorrectly predicts housing prices will fall, runs in shorts at night

Key Points: December 6, a Henan man runs around in the city at night in shorts as a result of incorrectly predicting that housing prices will fall. Reportedly, he was originally planning to streak [run naked], but gave up the idea due to the weather being too cold. Experts claim this kind of behavior is an expression of helplessness of young people towards overpriced housing prices.

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Comments from NetEase:

网易湖南张家界网友:

[The issue of buying] Houses/homes, have trampled upon a generation of people, and also let me see clearly the essence of the matter!
Property developers are only the assistants! Who are the real “black hands” [bad guys], everyone knows!

网易陕西西安网友:

When you have purchased a home and discovered that you yourself have been stripped naked by others, you too will be “streaking”.

网易山东临沂网友:

We are all streaking for homes…

网易北京海淀网友:

When we were going to elementary school, going to university was free;
When we were going to university, going to primary school was free;
When we could not yet work, jobs were assigned/allotted;
When we could work, only after banging our heads against the wall were we able to find a job to survive on;
When we could not yet earn money, housing was assigned/allotted;
When we could earn money, we discovered that we could not afford it;
When we had not entered the stock market, even fools were making money;
When we excitedly rushed in, we discovered that we had become fools ourselves;
When we had not yet reached marrying age, one could get married simply having a bicycle;
When we reached marrying age, without a Western-style house or a car one could not find anyone to marry;
When we are not looking for wives, the girls talked about heart/love;
When we look for wives, the girls talk about money;
When we are not looking for work, even elementary school students can become managers;
When we are looking for work, even university students can only clean bathrooms;
When we could not yet have children, others could have a string of them;
When we want to have children, no one could have more than one.
Just who exactly did our generation bother??
Well, jia you, comrades, it is our fault for being once hailed as the flowers of the motherland’s future!!!

网易安徽安庆网友:

Post-80s generation, too TM stressed.

网易山东网友:

God, I beg you to bestow upon me a house/apartment…http://www.chinasmack.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=12506

网易上海网友:

Who said let some get rich first? [Deng] Once those bastards got rich, they stopped taking care of the rest of us!

网易江西赣州网友:

A home, a car! Both have made me struggle for a lifetime!!!
Evil manipulator behind the scenes, you will definitely get what you deserve!

网易辽宁沈阳网友:

Before housing prices, young people have surrendered their dignity, reason, love, worn away their concern for their parents, exhausted their feelings for the motherland.

网易湖南长沙网友:

Fuck, Brother Wang [the streaking young man], brother, you are truly manly. Next time you streak, call me.

网易浙江杭州网友:

One person streaking is no big deal, but rallying together to streak would then be a big problem…

网易广东湛江网友:

If there hadn’t been a financial crisis that originating from America, then there wouldn’t have been a government bailout package, and the housing prices probably would have fallen to this netizen’s prediction.

网易宁夏银川网友:

If you cannot afford a house, then go to a second-tier or third-tier city to buy, consider it a contribution to urbanization.

网易宁夏银川网友:

Yingchuan is considered a relatively backward city in the Northwest, so it now having 8000 yuan per square meter housing is truly making it impossible for people to live!
With a small Northwestern frontier city being like this already, nevermind the big cities.
How about increasing our salaries!

网易广东清远网友:

As long as it is related to housing prices, the discussion is all very high-level, but how come there aren’t any people in power paying attention?

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  1. Inflated housing prices, wow, aren’t the Chinese in such a unique and tragic situation? Every time I talk to someone from Seoul it’s the same shit, why the hell people would pay half their lifetime’s income for a tiny little box within range of DPRK artillery I have no fucking clue. People in Hong Kong pay more for a 3×5 metre parking space than Beijingers pay for a 3 bedroom apartment inside the 2nd ring road, consider yourselves lucky.

  2. He just made the prediction too early. There is a housing (or construction in general) bubble that looks a lot like it did in America several years ago… before the bubble popped.

    Don’t worry, it’ll pop here too. Though I almost hope it doesn’t. It’ll cause some crazy problems.

  3. “Reportedly, he was originally planning to streak [run naked], but gave up the idea due to the weather being too cold.”

    Good thing those shorts are keeping really nice and warm then…

  4. China? People? Houses? I don’t think I know english very well..

  5. i say NO to high priced house.high price tag does not equal high construction quality.”louwaiwai” and “loucuicui” destroy our fellows’ humble hope of “juzhe you qiwu”.

  6. Aw hell no, it aint streakin’ less yer completely nekkid

  7. HI GIRLS I AM. I LOVE GETTING NEGATIVE REMARKS!!! SO PLEASE DO THE HONORS
    Well in think not only the chinese do stupid things but also laowais, everybody at some point of their lives want to have 15 minutes of fame (in most cases STUPIDITY)but there is nothing wrong with that. BY THE WAY the only fucking reason thsi webiste exists is because of stupid shit going on, and the only reason this site carries on existing is because of the stupid commentors. sorry , truth hurts

    • You are seriously one confused little retard.

      You want someone to punish you for getting negative comments? I think your life has been a series of negative comments that probably came from your parents and you are searching for the pain in these forums from strangers.

      Actually, you are probably one of those creepy little chinese claw hand homosexuals that stalk foreign guys. You know the ones, they start by trying to compete with everything we do and then call 18 times a day (cable guy style) wanting to learn English, show off their new hip hop clothes (because all foreigners care about this) and asking genuinely shitfull questions like “do you like Beijing Weather” and “Can you use Chops sticks?” and exclaiming that every fucking ugly landmark is the most famous in all of China.

      Why don’t you go and phone a friend and stop trying to love bite our turds?

      Also I am giving you a positive vote for a laugh.

  8. That guy is doing for the lolz. As if running like that would make the price fall

  9. Wow that guy is running in front of 二七塔 in 河南郑州. I don’t really miss living there, but it does bring back some fond memories. 中!

  10. Also, this might be the right time to coin the phrase “The Iron Bubble 铁泡”-Concerning the governments efforts to prop up an unsustainable bubble indefinitely.

    • LoL, nice. I’m personally hoping for the bubble to burst sooner than King Tubby’s second half 2010, and I’m hoping a ton of assholes get fucked for it (okay, only the speculator assholes, not the innocent joes who are sacrificing everything in fear).

  11. HI GUYS I M BACKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!
    So i think there are so dudes here taking it to the extremes and saying this without even thinking about others. WHAT THAT PIECE OF SHIT commented after me is something i think is not necessary since everybody s purpose when visiting the website is to have some fun>>>
    what is your opinion FAUNA??????????????

  12. IM BAAAAACKKKK WITH As and Ks.
    well, i think chinasmack used to be a website people visited to comment on the topic BUT NOW all we see is people trying to show off and battling to see who gives the rudest comments and the other bunch of people never even read the topic but spend their creativity to come up with great replies to other coments. WELL LETS SEE HOW LONG THIS SITE WILL SURVIVE, CHEERS!!!
    !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    THE REAL THING IS that most people who are rude here are actually real cowards that would NEVER have guts to say what they say face to face, so the use chinasmack for a practice. And sometimes they come up with stupid names like TINS OF SARDINES for instance, well why sardines? maybe that is because he compares sardines to the size of his penis.

  13. Hahaha… fishing in an aquarium.

    Laowaixian, your cutting wit and penis fixation is certainly sending me straight to the burns unit. I hope you come to, ever so tenderly, change my bandages and nurse my weeping sores during your daily visits.

  14. I think this website has been infiltrated by the “thebeijinger” forumites. I’ll never understand why people get off on insulting eachother online, it’s so boring.

  15. BUBBLEBURST WAT?!!!

    You can have have a few real estate bubble bursts and home prices still go up every decade. If the prices are actually going down continiously you better be in fear becasue that is a sign that that area is going to be a Rust Belt. And once its a rust belt it never ever recovers.

  16. Whenver i think to buy a flat here i always been faced by unreasonable prices .why the hell each place in china jumb the prices to the sky!1

  17. If everybody stopped paying the higher prices, then prices would come down. Buyers just need to stop offering higher and higher prices over the longer term.

  18. What goes up, will eventually come down. The law of nature and the law of economics. Many of the wealthy who can afford Shanghai and Hong Kong properties are going to lose their shorts when the real estate bubble bursts…….just like it has in the U.S. and elsewhere in the west. Those who live by greed will die by poverty eventually. Better to just love and live simply and be happy. If a Chinese woman won’t marry you because you don’t own a home or an apartment, be happy you didn’t end up with a woman who values your wallet instead of your heart.

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