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hibapkev



Joined: 09 Mar 2008
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 18, 2009 11:01 pm    Post subject: Chengdu or Kunming Reply with quote
I lived in Shenzhen from August 2007-June 2008 and returned home in July. I have decided to wait for a call from the FDNY, they are currently on a hiring freeze and I'm expecting to be called in a few years. So I want to return to China but teach in a less commercial city in a different part of the Country. I really enjoyed Kunming when I visited but never had a chance to visit Chengdu due to the earthquake. I LOVE Sichuan food and food is a huge part of my life. If anyone has any tips, links, blogs, or job possibilities they would like to share please pm, respond or email me. Thanks - Kevin

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foreignDevil



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hey you're not the guy who was featured in the New York TImes, are you? I remember reading an article a while back about a young man who was not able to enter the FDNY because of hiring freeze. The article mentioned the man had previously taught in China.

Just curious. Very Happy

Good luck.
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hibapkev



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PostPosted: Thu Mar 19, 2009 12:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
No I'm not but it's pretty amazing that someone else is in the same position as me. Any information you have about those cities orrecommendations would be great.
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hibapkev



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 2:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Bumb... anyone?
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D'yankee



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:44 pm    Post subject: Chengdu or Kunming Reply with quote
I've never been to Kunming so I can't compare the two, but I can highly recommend Chengdu, My wife is from Chengdu and I've been there four times since 2003 and going back at the end of May. If you like hot and spicy food Sichuan is the place to go and hotpot is something you have to try. If you get the Travel Channel Anthony Bourdain did a good piece on Beijing and Chengdu and so did Samantha Brown (but I find her really annoying). Besides food Chengdu has a good night life and lots of beautiful parks where you can relax and just chill out.
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Genghis K



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 7:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
In my opinion, Chengdu is more lively, but the weather may be a bit less moderate in the summer. And yeah, the food rocks!!
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Adeem



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Check out some blogs about Chengdu.

I live in Chengdu, but for a number of different reason, have never made it south to check out Yunnan and Kunming. There is no doubt, from what I hear that the weather down there is much nicer than here. Chengdu suffers from a bit of a cloud problem. On the plus side, it doesn't rain too much and the winter is bearable, with the summers being quite pleasant and hot.

The range if food here is pretty good, and you don't have to just restrict yourself to Sichuanese cooking, as there is loads of different stuff to explore. Remember that the best hotpot is the brands from Chongqing.

Nightlife is what you make of it, as there is plenty to do, and there are certainly some nice rivers and green bits that make me particularly enjoy the months from April-November (the warm weather stretches for a good 8 months).

Most people who live here are pretty satisfied. If you want plenty of friends, both western and Chinese, you are also quids in.

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vikuk



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 1:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
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lots of beautiful parks where you can relax and just chill out.

If you like your parks with thousands of folk - then these are the parks for you. These certainly aren't - the getting away from it all - a bit of solitude - lying on the grass - playing some soccer type parks we know from back home!!!! They're not even quiet - if you do find a lonely corner - then there's a good chance that there's a little speaker (often placed in fiber-glass box disguised as a stone) - pumping out musak!!!!!!
Lets have a reality check when we write in these forums.
I think the best way of describing Chengdu parks is - interesting. But beautiful??????????

Beautiful now - thats what we find outside Chengdu - but come quickly more of it is dissapearing by the day (which is probably why I'm always sounding so angry)!!!!!
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roadwalker



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PostPosted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote