From their balconies, residents of Prosperous Lakeside Mansion can look south towards China’s Daya Bay or out over verdant hills around Huizhou, a city of 6mn near Hong Kong.
But for Ruby Chen the appeal of this high-rise tower complex lies in another feature: it is half empty. Rents are dirt cheap and, unlike China’s biggest cities, the place is never overcrowded.
“You have many choices here because there are so many vacant houses,” says Chen, an online English teacher. “If I rent a house here and I find it unacceptable — maybe one day I have a problem with the neighbourhood — I can choose to move to another house.”
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