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[vancouver_syndicate]

Does anyone live in Wenzhou? What's life like there? Is there a large expat community?

[Fiskadoro]

I've never lived in Wenzhou, but a friend did. There is a small ex-pat community.

Wenzhou itself is a very wealthy city, very business orientated with a lot of overseas links. However, it's also isolated in the the mountainous south of Zhejiang province. Basically, it's a long way from anywhere else unless you fly. Partly as a result of this, the local dialect is nothing like standard Mandarin Chinese.

I don't imagine life there would be too hard, but at the same time it's not top of the list for culture, scenery or nightlife either.