Little shops with notices in the window of flats for rent and/or sale all over the place - doesn't hurt to look.

30kgs, huh?
You're right about the need to manage traffic, but it's only necessary because there's so much of it.
Public transport was far better 8 years ago, when it had less competition - the relative improvement you notice has only occurred over the period of the last few weeks.

Amazing, and very sad, that foreigners would come all the way to China & then devote so many pages to analyzing the local McDonalds. Is this or is this not evidence of a rather peculiarly narrow focus of interest, about food at the very least? Please excuse me if I suggest it might well imply a dishearteningly narrow interest in other things as well...like, perhaps, the world?

@tiger: Maybe, about born-again & evangelism, I'm not sure. Yes, there's frequently god talk at other tables, doesn't bother me. The folks who run the place, and I think own it (not sure about the ownership - it was set up by Canadian Christians over 10 years ago, though I think most or all of the ownership is now in the hands of the Chinese Christians who manage it) are pleasant folks, friendly, good-humored, I always chat with them briefly in Chinese, never get religiously leaned on at all. Foreign Christians there don't focus on me either, in fact rarely talk to me (though they're polite & pleasant enough when they do), no doubt they would if I appeared at one of the 2(?) Protestant English-language church services in Kunming.
They employ physically challenged people as well as others, who seem cheerful about their jobs, call me by a nickname, people who otherwise would have a tough time getting hired for ordinary work (i.e., not the bloody Dwarf Empire) in Kunming.
It's a western-style restaurant, I find the food better than that of most Chinese-run western-style restaurants. Is this 'cultural colonialism'??

@Bucko: 'need to have a car', 'have to make a metro run' - I take it you're serious. Doubtless all those other people clogging the roads with their cars and polluting the air are serious too.
Right, it's your choice, which you're free to make thanks to your income - but look at what you're saying.
So much for public transportation, including new-improved public transportation, solving the blight of automobile traffic.