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| More foreigner-friendly: Gwangju or Daegu? |
| Gwangju, Jeollanamdo, baby! |
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| Daegu, Gyeongsangnamdo's all that and a bag of chips! |
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| I'm too crabby to participate in this poll or submit a helpful post, and I don't like trees, clean air, sunlight, Christmas, children or smiling |
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| How did I get on this page? I was surfing for porn! |
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Eedoryeong
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
Location: Jeju
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 Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: Living: Gwangku vs. Daegu? |
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Hi
well we're thinking we're going to finish our 6 months end of May and then I'm going to take my own part-time gigs while looking for a home in the countryside either near Gwangju (commuting with an LPG car) or Daegu (same same).
I said outside because my wife and I have decided smoggy crowded freaky Seoul is great to visit but sucks to live in/raise a child, and we want a garden and to be near the outdoors. So we're going to live in one of the two lower provinces (she's Korean, and I've got just over survival Korean.) As long as we're near a big city for hospital needs, I'm okay if we can get an LPG car.
So how do Gwangju and Daegu measure up? Which one is the least smoggiest/least freakiest, which one has the most amenities for foreigners, and which one generally gets/sends out the greater amount of positive foreigner karma? |
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| I was visiting some friends who were visiting Korea in Gwuangju yesterday, actually. It looked all right. I don't think one has very much that the other doesn't. However, from Daegu it's much easier to reach Seoul or Busan. |
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OnTheOtherSide
Joined: 29 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:19 pm Post subject: |
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| I don't mean to derail the topic here but how would you say Pusan compares to these cities overall? |
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Eedoryeong
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 5:29 pm Post subject: |
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| OnTheOtherSide wrote: |
| I don't mean to derail the topic here but how would you say Pusan compares to these cities overall? |
Well off the top of my head, I'd say Busan kicks ass for working independently (legally) and sucks for living quality if you're under 18. It stinks too. As my in-laws are there, I go there quite frequently. Two of the neighborhoods we stay around are down by the water. Beautiful pristine apartments and man-made playgrounds in the buildings themselves, but get on the ground level and whew.
I think the countryside would be much more wholesome. But which countryside? Maybe I should just make a list of pros and cons for each and see what outweighs what. I'm operating on the assumption that presently the highest salaries for FT jobs go to Jeollanamdo and not to Gyeongsangnamdo due to the former's greater difficulty to recruit and higher isolation pay (not issues for us, as we're able to integrate almost anywhere in Korea. )
So this is where opinions from foreigners living in either of the aforementioned cities could help. |
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Draz
Joined: 27 Jun 2007
Location: Land of Morning Clam
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:04 pm Post subject: |
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I've never been to Gwangju, but Daegu is dead last in the category of places I've been in Korea. Gwangju could be worse, I really don't know.
Reasons: bad air, too spread out, locals constantly giving you the stink eye. In other places people either ignore me or look happy to see me. Not Daegu. |
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ajgeddes
Joined: 28 Apr 2004
Location: Yongsan
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| I also would never live in Daegu. Both times I have been there I couldn't wait to leave. However, that's just personal taste and of course other people love it there. |
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Eedoryeong
Joined: 10 Dec 2007
Location: Jeju
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| Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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| ajgeddes wrote: |
| I also would never live in Daegu. Both times I have been there I couldn't wait to leave. However, that's just personal taste and of course other people love it there. |
Do they? I'd like to meet a few of them. I just brought up the wording of this poll to my wife and she just mentioned to me that even Koreans think Daegu folk are rough around the edges and not considered the most likeable people.
I think I may have just leaned toward Gwangju. Too bad, the mother-in-law's in Busan and it could be good to have her nearby after the baby's born. But we have to like where we live I guess. |
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