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[mitsui]

I saw a good job in Hefei. How is the smog?
Is the easiest airport to get to in Shanghai? Thanks.

[rogerwilco]

Hefei has its own airport.

I only lasted 6 months in Hefei, and I remember brown skies and my students thinking I was lying when I told them that I could see stars at night in the USA.

The pollution is terrible, very few Western food options, and the locals harassed any female that walked with me in public. The school secretary asked that I walk far behind her whenever she had to take me to the bank. She could not handle the stares and rude comments.

[mitsui]

Yeah I read that but meant what was the biggest airport outside of the city.
Well, pollution vs, good pay.

So do you mean you had to wear a mask outside? Was this for part of the year?
I don't want to affect my health. I read some awful stories of pollution.

[rogerwilco]

[Modernist]

The air seems to have been improving lately. How long ago was the experience of brown skies? But, in a place like that you will have bad days for sure.

Hefei is very close by train to Nanjing, which can help with the isolation issues. There's foreign food and people there in decent numbers. Also, the USTC, which is a super advanced school of engineering and such, is there which means many very high level Uni students around, if you can find them.

The average people in Anhui are going to be rough and backwater in general however. Also would not expect foreign food anywhere there. The thing with being with a Chinese female is a bad sign too. Hard to judge it depending on how good the job might be. Have you considered visiting it to get a feel for what you'd be dealing with?

[mitsui]

No just thinking of applying to work at a high school.
The recruiter is in the US. They have AP classes in various subjects and I am certfied in the US in English in a couple states.
I read that the pollution is bad in the spring.