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AliNZ · Joined: 11 Feb 2003

about where you live?

Where are you and what's great or not about where you live?

I'm trying to decide where I want to be for my next teaching tour of duty!

Thanks in advance for your input.

maddog · Joined: 08 Dec 2005 Location: Daegu

Like: No one has actaully come up to me and said "Get to fukk outta my country"

Dislike: Despite having walked past the same old ladies every day for the past six months, they still look at me as if I'm a three-headed alien.

spliff · Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand

It's quiet yet still close to Seoul. Also, the local folk are quite friendly and generally pleasant as well.

BS.Dos. · Joined: 29 Mar 2007

The cities of Daegu, Masan, Changwon and Busan can all be reached in an hour or less. For the size of the town (about 25,000) there's a pretty good spread of FTs to socialise with. There's a cool mountain on the edge of town and quiet farmland and paddy fields to go jogging around 2-minutes down the road.

Dome Vans · Guest

***I feel at home in my city (30 000 people). The locals are really nice and are always giving me free stuff in the shops. At the gym there's a few guys who speak english and it's fun to talk with them. Plenty of mountains around, and it's about 20kms from Daecheon Beach and Taean. I'm about 150 kms away from Seoul, which I go to maybe once every two months, because to me it's overrated and dirty. Would hate to live there. Oh yeh! We have a bowling alley!!!!!

---There aren't any. All teachers renew once and most renew twice here.

Smile

I actually felt more stared at in bigger cities - Gunsan, Pohang especially Geongju. Being a smaller city doesn't mean getting stared at more in my experience.

butlerian · Joined: 04 Sep 2006 Location: Korea

[quote="Dome Vans"]All teachers renew once and most renew twice here.[quote]

That's not strictly true. Wink

Dome Vans · Guest

[quote="butlerian"][quote="Dome Vans"]All teachers renew once and most renew twice here.

PGF · Joined: 27 Nov 2006

incheon; a newish part of the city. lots of restaurants, shops, blah blah blah

enough FTs that you don't have to join a clique

Koreans are really really nice to decent whities here.....lots of freebies and service-ah if you are a nice person....

Dislike: too many FTs

too many stores, restaurants, etc....which mean too many drunken korean ajoshis

This place was heaven for me for 14 months.....now it's getting on my nerves....

so, moving to a newer, more isolated city in T-minus 24 days.....

but it's a nice place if you are not marrried/shacked up....

yeonsu-dong, incheon....near wonninjae subway on the incheon 1 line

LOTS of public schools here.....LOTS>>>>>