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bootzilla · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 7

Does anyone have any experience of the place they would like to share? Is there much to do, a large foreign population etc? Also I have heard conflicting information about which dialect they speak, I am keen to improve my Mandarin skills.

struelle · Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 2372 Location: Shanghai

Songbird · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 10:05 am Post subject:

Lived in Ganzhou for a year just over a year ago. Yes, pretty boring, there's a tiny airport that flies to Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou (45mins) but train line is out a bit. Don't believe it when they say convenient train line- it's a killer to get tickets in the town! No Maccas but 1 KFC. There's a small wall surrounding the city and some little theme park with rides somewhere in town. Wouldn't go back to live there though, very hicksville (NOT a city by any means!)

bootzilla · Joined: 18 Jan 2009 Posts: 7

Thanks for the info, I spent a year as token white face in a Taiwanese hicksville, its not an experience I really want to encounter again. So I think I best give it a miss.