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Sareva
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 Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2010 2:54 am Post subject: Schools to avoid in Shanghai? |
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| I'm applying to schools in Shanghai (mostly kindergarten positions), but I have no idea which schools are good and which should send me running for the hills. Any advice, O wise ones? |
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askiptochina
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Location: Beijing
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| Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2010 11:03 pm Post subject: |
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| which should send me running for the hills |
ALL of them. Pick a different city. I did, I am happy now. Shanghai = too dirty, too noisy, too many people, too much honking, too much spitting, too many expensive stores, and women are snooty beyond belief with their European influence and maid cleaning their one room apartments. I could go on, but just letting you know it isn't as grand as you might think. Shanghai might be good to do business with, but from AFAR.
If you are starting up a business, visit Shanghai to get connections if you have to (you could probably meet them online, I did but that was only while job searching for English teaching jobs).
If you want a nicer environment, you should pick a different city. I am in Shenyang and I love it here. Stores, people, and atmosphere are all great. Shenyang is not really the top of the list either, as others have complained and left for cities like Dalian, Harbin, and Qingdao.
With that said, I needed to experience Shanghai for 1 month (more like 3 weeks) to be absolutely sure I didn't want to live there. I am glad I went there, and I am glad I left as soon as I could. There is no point in being there. What are you going to do there, buy overpriced items and walk up and down the Bund all year? It's going to get old real soon. Don't be alarmed when you go to People's Square and are hounded with, "Hey, you want watch, bag, lady massage? Come on man." |
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deputamadre
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Shanghai is a great city to be rich in. If you're making shit money you'll have a shit time. I like Shanghai because you can live a really 'Chinese' lifestyle here if you want or go all out and blow everything on Western restaurants and nightlife. Things are actually happening here. Shenyang...ugh, really? That's like saying 'You'll hate New York City, you should really check out Des Moines' I guess to each his own. I hated Northern China. Pollution and air quality up there is far worse than Shanghai. At least all the pollution here drifts out to sea. |
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Menino80
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| Shanghai is a great city. The sentence 'there is no point in being there' is just flat out ridiculous. There's a ton going on. |
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askiptochina
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| Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| Pollution and air quality up there is far worse than Shanghai. At least all the pollution here drifts out to sea. |
On the surface, that sounds like a legit argument. But like with smoking, the density of the smoke/nicotine inhaled by the smoker is far worse than the area the second hand smoke covers.
Of course, if you are rich you are able to afford to stay inside and not have to deal with the air in such a densely populated city. I tried to go for a walk in Shanghai. At night I could out for an hour until the smoke got to my lungs. In the morning, only a half hour. Then the gas fumes from the street combined with the dirt/dust in the air made breathing diffictult as more people entered the streets.
Here in Shenyang, I can go out for hours and hours and not cough or feel the effects. Traffic is intermittent instead of constant as in Shanghai.
I think when the locals are gasping for air as the wind blows the pollution "out to sea" it's time to rethink your living conditions. Good luck wherever you go. |
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mdovell
Joined: 02 Nov 2009
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I think it really depends as to the time of year and what part...
when I was in bejing there were plenty earlier that said how bad the pollution was...it was fine for me..
shanghai there was some industrial places but the same stuff would be here too.
The worst I think was just the humidity in shanghai...it was july and pretty far up there... |
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corij
Joined: 03 Dec 2009
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Here in Shenyang, I can go out for hours and hours and not cough or feel the effects. Traffic is intermittent instead of constant as in Shanghai.
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i was in Shenyang this time last year, every single woman was wearing a dust mask,well 95%were , has that changed? my eyes got very sore too,i was told it was from dust blowing from the Gobi desert !
has it rained as yet?? |
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askiptochina
Joined: 26 Feb 2010
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Location: Beijing
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| Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2010 1:10 pm Post subject: |
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| corij wrote: |
Here in Shenyang, I can go out for hours and hours and not cough or feel the effects. Traffic is intermittent instead of constant as in Shanghai.
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i was in Shenyang this time last year, every single woman was wearing a dust mask,well 95%were , has that changed? my eyes got very sore too,i was told it was from dust blowing from the Gobi desert !
has it rained as yet?? |
I have never seen a woman under 50 wear one of those masks. Yes, old women wear them. That's about 5 so far since I have been here.
There is definitely a change if that is what you experienced. |
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