For my 3 weeks in Beijing, I'm living with several friends in a neighborhood in the suburbs. I've found a couple aspects of our housing complex quite interesting.
1) Gas, water, and electricity all are charged on separate cards. This means that, when any of these start to run low (or run out), in the house, the resident must go to a place in the center of the neighborhood with the specific card (whether gas, water, or electricity) and "charge" the card by paying money to have credit put on it. It's like gas, water, and electricity credit.
2) At least once a month the electricity and water for the entire neighborhood is cut off. This is because one person did not pay their bill. Neighbors go and yell at each other until the bill is paid and the water and electricity is restored. We were here to experience one of these days.
Oh man, it's just so NOT America.
On the bright side, "our" house has pretty grape vines and an apricot tree.
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