Learning languages is a good idea if you plan to stay more than 6 months or so.
Point is, India and China together constitute much of the planet, which is a place that I've always felt is worth learning about. Anyway, English is one of the 2 most important Indian languages.
Have long felt that a considerable spell in India is a good head reorientation for those who have spent a lot of time in China - 2 nations with the cultures that embody some 40% of the human species.
@ Campo: Works that way in most countries, though in some the difference between bank rates and freetraders on the sidewalk are considerably larger than in China. Flip side is that you're unlikely to be cheated by the banks on the rates that they post.
Nothing new here except the degree to which it might be worthwhile to exchange outside the bank, and that perhaps depends on the amount of money you want to change. The OP wants to change Y3500 - perhaps the difference is significant to him, and he'll be alert to tricks that so many freelance moneytraders employ.
Campo, what is the difference in rate between the women and the bank that you have gotten?
@ Campo: Okay, got it, but there are usually women outside the main Bank of China branch at Beijing Rd. & Renmin Rd too. Anyway, are we talking about 1% difference or something? Like I said, I don't know.
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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.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者Don't quite understand - do you want the state to make/keep some, or all, of these drugs illegal? If so, note how legalization of alcohol in the US, after 10 years of prohibition, drove gangsters out of the illegal booze industry. Seems to me legalization of pot in some US states is likely to do the same with the illegal marijuana industry. What would happen to the gangsters' profits in dealing other (now illegal) drugs if they were made legal?
I'm not advocating anything concerning the drugs in the article, just asking your opinion.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者And we have been getting off the point, as the article doesnn't mention marijuana.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者Right - so you're saying at least some of these drugs should be made legal, like alcohol and tobacco are? If so I've been partially misunderstanding you.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者Plus cigarette smoking is a lot more likely to give you lung cancer than marijuana smoking does - marijuana smoking can give you bronchial irritations, tho, if you over do it.
A look at Yunnan's evolving anti-drug strategy
发布者@vicar: And any fool who smokes both tobacco and weed knows clearly that it's nicotine that is the really addictive drug.