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Hey Natalie, I will be starting my internship in Beijing in mid-may and I am looking for an apt or a room to stay. I don't know about Xizhimen, but from what I have checked online, sometimes you can get a two-bedroom apt for like 3500-4000 RMB a month (they don't look good though).

Hi florenceeli!

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Armand

Hey thanks Armand

Yeah,Ìý florenceeli, we have come to realise that you'll need to spend more in the region of 6000.Ìý This is just from talking to various people though.Ìý We've not viewed any yet.

Feel free to get intouch when you arrive and maybe we can do some exploring...

Hi ,Natalie .welcome you to beijing.there is a lot of funs here.Ìý Around XIzhimen there is not so many apts for foreigner. Most of them are in the east part of the city.

hey Natalie, I sent u a message

6000 RMB is a foreign pricetag!!!!

You may well be ripped off for paying such an amount in Beijing.

You get what you pay for.

Of course it is possible to find apartments far below 6,000RMB/month.

Depends on location, size and quality.

My part of town you can find a small place in a nearby nongcun for a few hundred RMB for a small (literally) one room. Public squat latrine and shower a few minutes walk away, cook outside on a coal burner -are you prepared to live in that type of environment?

That is of course an extreme. The point is that there is a huge range in prices though you might have to travel. As a rule of thumb places with lots of foreigners are more expensive.

How about asking the Chinese people in your office for information about their apartment compounds. I doubt if the office secretary is paying anything like that since 6,000 could be two or three times more than her salary.