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Banner41
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I was in Hangzhou this past weekend and it was terrible.
The air was dirty, the city was dirty and just all around an armpit of a city.
One attraction does not a city make..... |
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Juice
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:18 am Post subject: |
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| Okay Banner, where do YOU think is the best place to teach in China and why? |
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Banner41
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| Posted: Mon Jul 28, 2014 9:34 am Post subject: |
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It's relative....
Every job assignment I took was always better than the last.
My first city Zibo....low pay, dirty....but the people were nice
Second....Chengdu......Good food...still a bit dirty....great ex-pat community
Third Guangzhou.....Hot, dirty.....Traveled to Shenzhen and Hong Kong almost every weekend just to get away....
Shanghai....Highest paid job yet....decent cost of living.....Good ex-pat community.....cleaner than most cities.....
I could be jaded......When you move up each year to a better more modern city you tend to not want to take steps backwards.
Hangzhou would be a step back for me but could be a step up for someone else....it's all relative. |
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Piper2
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 1:10 am Post subject: |
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My regret is that I never heard of Hangzhou until I went there for last Spring Festival. It is ten times cleaner and less congested than Beijing and it has the longest canal in China - over 1,000 miles if you like to kayak or canoe and the beach is quiet and clean. People are a lot more friendly than Beijing or Shanghai and it is a "cozy" place that has a lot of old culture around, but is really modernizing quickly. I found this recent article which contains a decent video tour in it.
http://open.salon.com/blog/china_business_central/2014/07/19/cftu_hangzhou_rated_no_1_by_china_foreign_expat_teachers_1
Sanya, may be more beautiful but nowhere near as affordable as Hangzhou. The cost of living is at least 40% less than Beijing. |
Personally I think it is misleading to write about HZ and a beach and compare it to Sanya. Not really the same thing. HZ is an inland city (in)famous for its lake, not a costal beach city on an island much further south. I did not even know HZ has a beach and I have been there many times. Looks like the beach in question is far downriver from the city.
I seem to remember posters on another thread commenting how the article you link to contains numerous errors. |
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Banner41
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| Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 2:30 am Post subject: |
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My regret is that I never heard of Hangzhou until I went there for last Spring Festival. It is ten times cleaner and less congested than Beijing and it has the longest canal in China - over 1,000 miles if you like to kayak or canoe and the beach is quiet and clean. People are a lot more friendly than Beijing or Shanghai and it is a "cozy" place that has a lot of old culture around, but is really modernizing quickly. I found this recent article which contains a decent video tour in it.
http://open.salon.com/blog/china_business_central/2014/07/19/cftu_hangzhou_rated_no_1_by_china_foreign_expat_teachers_1
Sanya, may be more beautiful but nowhere near as affordable as Hangzhou. The cost of living is at least 40% less than Beijing. |
Personally I think it is misleading to write about HZ and a beach and compare it to Sanya. Not really the same thing. HZ is an inland city (in)famous for its lake, not a costal beach city on an island much further south. I did not even know HZ has a beach and I have been there many times. Looks like the beach in question is far downriver from the city.
I seem to remember posters on another thread commenting how the article you link to contains numerous errors. |
If Juice is getting it's information from the CTFU is seems just about as accurate and credible as that bogus organization. |
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Juice
Joined: 09 Jun 2014
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| Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2014 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I am getting my info from my own week spent there last spring festival and from google searches. I also think highly of Beihai and Haikou but for affordability and comfort I like Hangzhou. If you don't that's fine. It seems like you have some ax to grind with the CFTU and if that's the case, take it up with them, not me. I am not the one who started this thread 4 months ago.
After being deported 2 months ago, it may be a while since I set foot in China again my friend. Choice is a wonderful thing, but I made the wrong one when I decided to trust a recruiter with Total ESL named Michelle Zhang and all the five names she uses. I'd still be in China if not for her. |
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