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By: China Men

China Men — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 09:55:47 +0000

I have been here for a year and I go every day more to the Expat side! More bars, expensive meals, and even less chinese friends… I am more of an outsider now than after 2 months here… it is strage how life here turns up.

By: Ray

Ray — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 02:25:49 +0000

I amm interested in finding someone in China that can help us get an importing company setup without running afoul of all of the local scammers there. We have run into a myriad of them to this point with honest dealers being about a 50/50 shot. Could any of you make a suggestion as to how to do this? My son and I may be traveling there in July or maybe for the Olympics in August. Ray

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Simpson’s Paradox » Blog Archive » Pounds Sterling — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 05:39:30 +0000

[...] we’re near some great coffeeshops. Humanaught posted some great comments about the balance between roughing it in China on a couple kwai or living in the expat bubble. My own balance [...]

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:26:31 +0000

Four years in China (and length of stay indefinite) I’m still doing the greasy noodle life, and delighted at how it stretches my ideas about what is comfortable and what I need. I broke my China teeth in a small Sichuan town, and after a year in Nanjing am headed back there, partly in search of that simpler (but, I would argue, very much comfortable, and healthy)life. No one has mentioned how exciting it is to live in a place where the default way of life is far more sustainable than in the places we come from. Zhongguotongness aside, there is a lot of goodness in this “low standard of living.”

By: ChinaMatt

ChinaMatt — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:44:57 +0000

You make some great points here. It is possible to live the cheap life here, but it’s not always comfortable. When my wife and I chose this apartment, it was because it had an enclosed shower in a large bathroom and there were mosquito screens on the windows. Of course, all those things have broken in some way in the last year.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:26:32 +0000

@Mom/Jamieson: We’ve got one of those little micro-wave sized Easybake deals. Have had it for a few months now and don’t know what I’d do without it. As for a full-sized oven… I’m not *that* kind of expat yet.

@Chip: My wife couldn’t get over the house sizes in Canada either. The funny part is, in my hometown back home I could easily get a full house for what they charge for apartments in the area I’m moving to here in Suzhou. I don’t know if that says more about Suzhou or my hometown.

By: Chip

Chip — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:27:22 +0000

My wife is Chinese, and while giving a tour of my brother’s new house in the states (about 3000 sq. ft) a while back, my wife said to me, in chinese, “wow, it’s pretty nice, we should get a place like this one day!”. My brother asked what she said, and I replied “she called you a greedy capitalist pig”. Unfortunately, she understood me.

By: Jamieson

Jamieson — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:13:25 +0000

Heh heh – to Ryan’s Mom : I had a nice little bench-top oven, about the size of a microwave oven. It was great, 2 heating elements, a timer, rotisserie, thermostat knob 100-280 degrees C. It worked well for about 2 years, until last winter. The kitchen was about 2 degrees C and when I used it to bake bread, the glass door exploded/shattered into about 178 pieces all over the kitchen bench & floor. Poor little thing, the “heatproof” glass didn’t like going from 2 to 200 in 3 minutes. Lucky I wasn’t peering into it at the time.

Dishwasher ? Clothes Dryer ? You lucky B****rd

By: Mom

Mom — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 15:34:18 +0000

Wow! Your going to have a dishwasher, Maggie will be thrilled! Ok, tell me please, does the new place also have an oven so you can finally bake cookies?!