While most office workers in central Beijing head home by bus or subway after a hard day's work, Lyu Biao goes home by high-speed train.

 

Lyu lives in Tianjin, some 120 kilometers away from central Beijing. Every morning, he takes the subway from home to Tianjin Railway Station, where he boards a high-speed train to Beijing South Railway Station, followed by another subway journey. It's the same trip in reverse to get home.

 

The expanding high-speed train network and property prices in big cities have seen the birth of the "high-speed train tribe."

 

Some questioned Lyu's lifestyle, spending about four hours on the road every day and roughly 2,600 CNY (423 USD) a month on transportation, more than enough to board in Beijing.

 

"With so much time wasted on road, I'd rather board somewhere and save my time," read one comment.

 

Others were more supportive, saying that a comfortable high-speed train was much better than being crammed into a sweaty subway car.

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