laotou: I'll agree to prostitution, works for me. I give my time and skills for what the going rate.
I started at $6 for a 12 hour day picking crops. I hit a high of $250 hour doing consulting for a six month gig. State of California insisted I get paid time and a half cuz I billed more than 40 hours a week. Prostitution works for me.
Then a came to China.
Geezer: Good move? You made more money?
Or bad move: you only like living here?
Consider those 'bad moves' carefully - numbers are a good bit less than 'everything', even when they imply suck-cess.
More money? ha ha ha
I taught Accounting at the university level and amazed my fellow Chinese professors how little I was paid. I enjoyed teaching tremendously. The pay was not important.
how many threads do we need on capitalism?????????????????? another fine thread hijacked. cummon guys capitalism is a good topic to discuss, but not on every thread. this thread hijacking is turning the whole website into just one conversation. and it is getting boring as well it is buggereing up good discussions on other topics.
okay
It WAS a rare gem of a thread. Hijacked on the very first page and again on the second page by the same bore.
I think the best place to live in Yunnan would be the town with the least number of foreigners. In this way you can avoid silly discussions on which shitty economic theory is "better".
I know some foreigners who live in other prefectures and their business is agriculture - They are growing blueberries. I would like to find a place to raise organic black pigs or some varieties of organic chicken.
I have also read some news of some people who have fish farms with some special types of fish. All good ideas to get away from other laowais - Can give jobs to locals - and get away from the hustle and bustle of larger cities.
I know no one here teaches at home (schools only) but one can always pick up a buck by teaching at home on evenings and weekends.
A few years back I was all set to buy a house with land in Heijing Old Town - unfortunately, no one can buy there, not even chinese. I did not want to lease so I did not go through with the deal.
Campo, you're going to have trouble buying in pretty much any desirable area in the countryside. Most people just end up negotiating ten year leases and try to include clauses about right of refusal and the like.
Can not buy house or land in any village. The house is passed on by the males in the family to the next generation. If there are no males, the land is returned to the village. Leasing is the only option.
In our case in Heijing, the old mother (wife) of the male had the property in her name after her husband died. Her daughter was trying to sell the property for her. Even my chinese wife could not buy it.
Only males from the same village (Hu kou) can buy if they are not in the same family.
Laws like this perpetuate the need for male heirs in the family. The daughter gets nothing so she was trying to sell it and at least make a few bucks but she can not. When her mother passes away - she gets nothing and has to move out.
Although these rules do not apply in larger cities, the thinking does not change. Females can own property in cities, but not in small villages. I know of several cases where the son gets 2 or 3 houses while the daughter gets nothing.
This is why many of those very nice villages on the Historical and Cultural list are empty, with the exception of all the elderly and a few grandkids who the granparents are taking care of them. However, you rarely see any young men or women.
I also understand the purpose of these laws. If it were not for these regs, the houses and land will eventually fall into the hands of Foreigners (other provinces and other countries) by virtue of marriage to the female in the family.
