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• And you thought your commute was tough.
International student Guangli Xu, 28, currently in his final semester at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia, went viral after posting a video on Douyin (the Chinese version of TikTok) documenting his weekly commute.
That is, his weekly 5,468-mile commute.
Xu told SBS Mandarin that the trip from his hometown of Dezhou in China's Shandong province to Melbourne and back — a journey he made 11 times between August and October — costs about $1,500, which ends up being comparable to what his cost of living would be if he stayed in Melbourne full-time.
"But I think the money is better spent [in China]," Xu said, "because the overall cost here is lower."