@ vicar: Yeah, it's sad to think of a house or an apartment as simply a matter of financial investment.
@ vicar: Yeah, it's sad to think of a house or an apartment as simply a matter of financial investment.
@Tiger: Water problems and substandard construction, definitely things to look out for.
@tiger: True about keeping up with inflation; property as investment (all these new flats) is a different issue - tends to drive inflation, I'd think.
Recent economic (relative) slowdown, yes - but over the next 10 years?
Anybody heard anything about any of the older xiaoqu's (not older 'urban village' areas) being demolished? I haven't, but I'd like to know.
@ tiger: Perhaps you're right about price value in apartments going down over the next 10 years, although my admittedly uninformed impression is otherwise. But where have property values gone down lately, and over how long a period of time?
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Volunteering in Kunming's forgotten 'urban villages'
发布者@Scally: OK, I see - damned hukou restrictions still screwing people.
Volunteering in Kunming's forgotten 'urban villages'
发布者These kids are really poor, or don't get enough to eat (hence, teaching them...to make sandwiches?), or are orphans, or what? Do they go to school, during the normal school year?
Film Review: Paths of the Soul
发布者Compare with the widespread modern idea that good living is merely a matter of being continually entertained.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者Lotta cross-border stuff, including Rock.
The National Library in Hanoi is indeed good - I went there too, but had no camera - doubt if they have anything about Rock, though.
1920s China through the lens of Joseph Rock: Simao
发布者@Peter: thanks.