going slightly off topic Tiger, but yes I agree, especially in China. So many new apartment buildings are being finished at around the same time, oversupply is giving renters more choice and lower rents. Why buy? You could lose a huge amount if the property bubble bursts. Unless you intend to live there your whole life, it doesn't make much sense to buy in China.
mixian market is saturated. Wheat noodles, less so.
Noodle King, I think HF does travel a lot.
I've been to Guizhou, it is quite pretty, but is also famously cloudy. Cloudy weather depresses me. Kunming's sunshine keeps me upbeat.
Wanting to put your life and many other's lives in danger so you can experience climbing a mountain and have the stories/bragging is such an entitled, douchebaggy thing to do IMO. You need:
a) quite a lot of disposable money
b) a sense of 'nothing bad can happen to me'
c) a disregard for your family
d) boredom with the comfort of modern life.
Due to modern history, white people are more likely than other races to have these things.
I don't see much reason to live in any other province unless:
1) you want to live in a mega city where the skyscrapers are full of offices (unlike in KM where the skyscrapers seem to be half empty)
2) you want a big spender lifestyle/ bigger salary
3) you have penchant for hot and humid (Guangxi, Guangdong, Fujian) or freezing cold (Heilongjiang, Nei Monggu) climates.
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a very pleasant park with a tall pagoda you can climb and take photos of the city if you wish. Roses in summer, blossom in spring, nice lawn to sit on, bbq areas.
Recently the food seems to be better. Decent steak at a decent price, decent pizza, some decent wine, and the music is more suitable these days (Rammenstein wasn't the right mood music for Cantina)!
Had lunch - grilled chicken on top of mashed cuttlefish and a salad. The chicken was tasty and well cooked, and there was plenty of meat/fish to fill up even a hungry person. The salad was overdressed and nothing special - I won't order one next time. The service is a decent imitation of what you might find in the west. A large menu of food and drink. A nice civilised place to go for food or drink, but some of the dishes (i.e. the steaks) are very pricey. You could easily spend 300rmb+ per person here. Equally, it is possible to have lunch for under 60rmb per person (as we did). Warning - the bottle of water on each table costs an eye watering 48rmb! Don't be a sucker by opening it!
Went for a spot of lunch. Best pizza I've had in Kunming by some distance. In fact, one of the best pizzas I've ever had - quality ingredients, thin base, cooked to perfection. Sashimi salmon tasted very fresh and was well presented. The drinks are expensive, and one of the waiters was letting the side down by being a bit scruffy and impolite (hence not 5 stars), but definitely go and try the pizza.
Not bad. Pizza base was a little thick for my taste. Great selection of craft beers in the fridge, a few beers on tap, and well priced mixed drinks and cocktails. Staff were pleasant. A 14" pizza is the perfect size for two people, and very reasonably priced at 45-70RMB. Beware that the English menu, whilst written in perfect English, is not necessarily accurate. I ordered the 'local one' pizza expecting pepperoni and mango but got neither. The waitress explained that was a mistake on the menu. Would be nice if the menu corresponded with what you get on the plate! Hopefully this will get sorted.
Baiyun Lu closed for 18 months, civilian "air raid shelter" to be built
发布者nobody is going to bomb Kunming
Editorial: Hydro expansion will fail without energy market reform
发布者Coal may seem 'cheap', actually it's very expensive in terms of the pollution and the knock on effects of said pollution, which are very expensive to 'fix'. It's just that the plant don't pay these costs of it, they are 'externalised'. Slap a big dirt tax on coal, and watch how quickly the highly populated provinces start using cleaner energy like tidal, solar, wind, nuclear, hydro.
Interview: Tracking Kunming's trash with Adam Liebman
发布者really interesting stuff, good job
Rural Yunnan township takes flak for alcohol ban
发布者The local government's logic is correct, as many people have no self control once they have had one drink. However, as we know from previous attempts at prohibition, people find ways to drink.
China to harmonize English nationwide
发布者you think they could just show it to a well educated native english speaker like myself to check the English is correct and not too hilarious. A lot of the English I see in the lifts etc seems to have been copied by people who have absolutely no experience of the roman alphabet, they confuse I and l, u and v, a and e, t and f, etc, so they end up typing complete gibberish.