Having stayed abroad for a while, the prices really broke my defenses. A bowl of spicy hotpot or yellow braised chicken rice costs 200 yuan, and I don't even dare to add vegetables casually. It's not that I can't afford it, but I just feel it's really not worth it.

Finally, I went to the supermarket to buy some ingredients to cook myself. I picked a pack of instant noodles, which I thought was really cheap—only about 20 yuan in RMB, enough for about 5 or 6 meals. But then I impulsively searched on JD and was shocked again: domestically, 50 packs only cost 54 yuan... I used to think 4 yuan for a bowl of Sanhe master’s instant noodles was already cheap, but the cost of making that bowl is probably less than 50 cents.

Recently, I returned to China, but I still can't shake the habit of checking prices when shopping abroad. When I go to Uniqlo to buy clothes, it costs over 300 yuan, and my subconscious first reaction is still that it's expensive—really PTSD.

No matter what flaws there are domestically, one thing is certain: the prices from top to bottom are truly sweeping across the globe. The feeling is, whichever country you're in, just treat that country's currency as RMB; how expensive it is depends entirely on the exchange rate. In the US, it's about 6-7 times more expensive; in the UK, 8-9 times; in Canada, 4-5 times.

If you think everything abroad is good, I sincerely recommend staying there for 2 months to really experience it.