True - PR investment in tourist image does tend to lead to lying, direct or indirect, by private business as well as by local administrations - pretty universal - but faking AQI, as in the link you presented, is really too much.
Can't give you recent information, but in my past experience, in the US pool conditions and supervision is generally pretty good - meaning, well, I can't remember wanting to complain about anything beyond maybe the Ph was not right (too much chlorine), and that they were sometimes crowded. No real problems in Hong Kong or Paris either - I'm a fairly enthusiastic swimmer. Yes of course there must certainly be exceptions to 'good'. Your comment about your reading about pool conditions and supervision is very vague - where is it that all these pool conditions are so bad? And in comparison to pool conditions - where - England? What are conditions that are not 'poor'? Obviously nowhere is anything perfect.
Dreary to be reminded that this kind of thing happens - reflects serious social irresponsibility, especially in (some, at any rate) provincial and local administrations - hard to know how widespread it is, but my hunch is that it is not nearly rare enough.
Sh*t happens, choose your game, good luck to everybody.
Actually, what my friend was referring to was the way those of us from more northerly, wetter climates begin to think it gets cold and rainy here, after a few years - but cf. where?
Not sure how the Middles Easterners, Mediterraneans, Southeast Asians and Indians cope.
AQI and tobacco processing - interesting. I haven't had severe eye irritation in Kunming, but I don't live in the north.
I pay no attention to UV index.
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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.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者debaser, how are you traveling when you find the ebike and bicycle riders are causing you so much trouble?
Provincial audit reveals enormous government waste in Yunnan
发布者@ Kongming: I think you'd be right to do so.
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者No doubt this can become a problem, but it's not too hard to see a solution, part of which should be a set of regulations to stop more private cars, which take up a lot more room and cause a lot more environmental and other damage, being put on the road. However, such a move would likely reduce the rate at which wealth is concentrated nearer the top of society, so it would be quite a political battle to carry it out, and political battles tend to be restricted to certain...(you fill in the rest).
Governor vows to cure "diseased" Yunnan tourism industry
发布者The various forms of silliness in the industry might also be paid attention to (people looking for or expecting paradise, etc., and alternately looking at new 'old' buildings, mountains, and so forth, then expecting to 'get to know' the REAL people, all between bouts in bars or karaokes.
"B-but it's EDUCATION, right?"
Kunming's bike share options: A user guide
发布者@lemon lover: ditto to you and to nnoble.