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Ricky57 · Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 8

I've been offered jobs at universities in these cities. Will anyone with experience in these cities compare and contrast, please?

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

Zhangzhou - ? Zhe she nali difang??? Any province?

Quingdao - is that perhaps Qingdao?

It would be silly to try to answer your question because it's too open-ended. What do you like, mate? What are you looking for? I suppose, no one can get better answers than a reliable guidebook that prompts you to think about food and the cultural scene locally and the weather as well. Just blurting out "I like Qingdao!" is not useful because you may not like it!

Oscar · Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 26 Location: China

chegs · Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 25

Seth · Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 575 Location: in exile

by zhangzhou you probably mean zhengzhou. it's a big, ugly provincial capital in the center of china. kinda dirty and polluted. it's near some cool sights, though, like shaolin temple and luoyang and kaifeng. the cradle of chinese civilisation.

joe greene · Joined: 21 Mar 2004 Posts: 200

senor boogie woogie · Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:12 am Post subject:

Hola!

Hangzhou is a clean modern city, only 2 1/2 hours from Shanghai. There is a lake that everyone is so proud of, but it is basically a pond. There are other sites of interest to see.

After you have seen the sites and looked at the dullness of West Lake, what is there to do? The nightlife here is boring, there are a lot of bars, and a few cater to foreigners, but the bar scene is that of people drinking, trying to get a little action, or just staring at the wall. There are discos, if you want to hear thump! thump! music til your ear drum explodes.

Hangzhou people are just alike, you met one, you met them all. Many have money, or the illusion of it. There are many "famous" schools here, but the ignorance of the local population of anything beyond trivialities is amazing to see. Look at the polluted lake, walk with your boyfriend under an umbrella in the rain (cause its romantic), sucking that awful green tea all day (to make Hangzhou tea, boil hot water and add fresh grass clippings for flavor) and pretend to have something, when all you have is just another place with loud, rude, inconsiderate people, with a mionority of sweet, kind folk that makes one smile everyday.

You live somewhere (in my opinion) where one feels safe and has friends, true friends. Being in a s h i t-hole with your loved ones is much preferrable to being on the most beautiful paradise in the Universe with no one to share it with.

With that Hallmark moment out of the way, Hangzhou is good for about one year, then the place will grate on you. Since Chinese are merely carbon copies of each other, it doesn't matter where you go, as long as in the end of the day, you are happy and sastisfied with your work and your life and you can lock everyone else out.

Senor