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GeminiTiger
Joined: 15 Oct 2004
Posts: 999
Location: China, 2005--Present
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I love to VISIT Shanghai, for a day, or two days. I do my shopping, eat and drink my fills and after that all I see is 100 RMB taxi rides, smog and an endless sea of humanity.
Not for me thanks.
However, China would suck without it.
That is called paradox! |
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7969
Joined: 26 Mar 2003
Posts: 5782
Location: Coastal Guangdong
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 7:47 am Post subject: |
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| I've been to Shanghai a few times. Interesting stuff to see but I've never stayed longer than a day or two on any visit. I like my little backwater outpost here in the south. You couldn't pay me enough to live and work in a place like Shanghai. |
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basbas
Joined: 21 Oct 2011
Posts: 116
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:10 am Post subject: |
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| I don't want to go off topic... |
You weren't asked to. Read the OP's post again.
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| ...the land of Big Brother is certainly no utopia, no double-speak there, maybe I could say it like that... |
Welcome to China. As with the OP, seems like you're both into stage 2 of culture shock. Rest assured: it'll pass. |
no, not culture shock, more like 'cash crunch' or 'financial hardship brought on by low pay' |
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LongShiKong
Joined: 28 May 2007
Posts: 1082
Location: China
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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| basbas wrote: |
no, not culture shock, more like 'cash crunch' or 'financial hardship brought on by low pay' |
But that's not a result of living in Shanghai. Although rents there and in Beijing are much higher than smaller cities, you won't find too many 10,000+ RMB jobs in China with nice, clean, spacious apartments provided. Mine is an exception but when I tried giving it away (12,000 clear--no tax, small classes with few students, few teaching hours), I got only 2 replies expressing only mild interest. For all those who want to make 20,000/mo, get your B.Ed and teach at int'l schools or follow the advice of the poster who teaches corporate classes on his own (anyone have the url?).
Edit: Last year, Longman Schools also didn't deduct tax from my 11,000. |
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LeopoldBloom
Joined: 08 Jul 2010
Posts: 57
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| Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:11 pm Post subject: |
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LongshiKong: I was responding to the questions directed to me. He wanted a broader context for my why I'm not gung ho China experience. Read his two posts previous to mine. I wasn't responding to the OP. This is a thread and just as one person in a cafe begins a topic and conversation, chatting often bounces around and splinters into other related discussions. Ideally we try to stay near the original road as it were, the topic, and I don't want to encourage too much off-topic bantering about.
I had my point and made it basically. And I'm Bloom, not Oscar Wilde; I'll not stand tribunal for my entirely warranted negative perception of the middle shamdam.
BTW, I'm in not in China anymore (thank goodness!). I'm in amazing Vietnam now. I love it here.
Bloom. |
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