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MyTurnNow
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 Posted: Sun Oct 05, 2003 1:01 pm Post subject: Beijing Relaxing Residence Rules! |
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I read in a recent Shanghai Daily ("Now sucks 30% less than China Daily!") that Beijing has announced an end to the restrictions on where foreigners can live there. Should make the city a little easier and cheaper to live in.
Those of you keen to live in a military installation in Beijing will continue to be disappointed, I'm afraid. 
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kimo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 2:38 am Post subject: |
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| Your paper's a little slow or did one of the riders get shanghaied with the news from here. These rules have been relaxed for about a year now. |
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MyTurnNow
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I can't vouch for the editorial staff at the Shanghai Daily but I wouldn't want to put money on them.
I left BJ last December and as of that time there were still very clearly marked ghettos for foreigners.
Maybe relaxing the rules was approved a long time ago and it's just now being enacted?
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arioch36
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| Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2003 4:21 pm Post subject: |
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| And what percentage of the time does an announcment from beijing really mean anything? Not trying to be cynical or anything. At least in Zhengzhou, if you say the Beijing LAW is ... it means nothing. |
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MyTurnNow
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| Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:12 pm Post subject: |
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| At least in Zhengzhou, if you say the Beijing LAW is ... it means nothing. |
Yup. One reason I got out of Beijing. Like I said, they take that Communism sch!t serious there...
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kimo
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| MTN, beg to differ again, but I know people who were already registering last Autumn, and breathing easier I might add. |
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MyTurnNow
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 2:22 am Post subject: |
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I hope you're right, kimo. Maybe I was just in the wrong neighborhood last autumn???
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batman
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 4:03 am Post subject: |
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| i didnt know i was under any restrictions.... |
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MyTurnNow
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| Posted: Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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May not be easy to tell.
Until some unspecified recent point, at least, foreigners in Beijing were forbidden to live in apartments within a short distance of government or military sites...which of course make up huge swaths of Beijing.
Apartments in these areas would not be shown or advertised to you, so you were fairly unlikely to ever actually hear the words "You are forbidden to live here."
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