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schwa
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The apartment your school provides will have a western toilet. Most establishments now have western toilets but there are still a few schools left with squatters.
$80/mo is pretty cheap for heating oil. In the coldest months last winter it cost me about $400/mo to keep my little 4-room place toasty. I could've got by on less but I like my comforts. |
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young_clinton
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:27 am Post subject: |
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| In rural Chungnam, rural enough that the closest town has 500 people in it and the largest city in the county is 15000 people. Also rural enough where all the toilets in the school are squat toilets. They can be very rural. All the rural schools that I saw were well equiped with interactive screens and English classrooms and textbooks. Even with very rural areas you can usually readily get to Seoul or Busan for the weekend. |
 squat toilets will be a major problem...I don't wanna go that far...  |
You're apartment or dwelling will have western toilets. The squat toilets only, for some rural schools is a bit hearsay, but that is what I have heard. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:32 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
The apartment your school provides will have a western toilet. Most establishments now have western toilets but there are still a few schools left with squatters.
$80/mo is pretty cheap for heating oil. In the coldest months last winter it cost me about $400/mo to keep my little 4-room place toasty. I could've got by on less but I like my comforts. |
Actually I only heated a small room and only to 12 C. I used a heavy blanket at night. The 12 C temperature made the room tolerable for sleeping. The 80 dollars per month cost was only for January and February. It was a lot less for the other months. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Sat Oct 13, 2012 5:36 am Post subject: |
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| schwa wrote: |
The apartment your school provides will have a western toilet. Most establishments now have western toilets but there are still a few schools left with squatters.
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God reminds me of the traveling by bus establishments that you have to deal with in Thailand. All squat toilets with a few exceptions. Then when you find a western toilet it will have black footprints on it. |
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Unibrow
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| It depends. I mean I live in a small city (about 50,000). I like it so far. It's quite pretty. However, what other people have said is right. The only people here are old people and families with kids. All the young people go to university and move on. I'm pretty close to Jinju which is nice. But talk to me in 6 months and see if I still like rural Korea, ha. |
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