Yeah agreed. I just meant having the provinces operator the services is like here. Hukuo is not like here.

(Though there is a funny internet joke that American NIMBYs want hukuo at home.)

Living in Seattle, I have to admit that I’ve thought of wanting hukou before. We will never solve our homeless problem if the more local resources we apply to it and the better we do, the worse the problem gets (because who doesn’t want to show up to get that free housing).