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Forums > Living in Kunming > KM teachers' pay: What the hell is going on?

It has all been said on here before.
The free market is what has happened. Several things are going on.

For employers the teaching market is not the gold mine it used to be. There is far more competition in the market. The new rich kids are fully catered for and now the middle and lower middle and even working class families are looking for classes. Initially the growth led to a glut of students, now there is a glut of schools competing with each other and fees have gone down.
Also for employers, costs have gone up, including rents. Imagine being located in a fancy mall.

For teachers there is competitive pay. The job will go to the suitable person who is willing to work for lower pay. There are more expats coming to Kunming. Yes there are quality issues with some teaching (pay peanuts, get monkies, de—motivate then and get problems), but many owners of the private schools don't care about that TIC. They will just wrongly complain about inept and expensive teachers.

For the customer parent/student you get the McDonalds effect. All the little diners, some of which produced real quality, have been replaced by burger bars. There is only room in any market for a few centres of excellelence.

Public sector pay has not moved, but that is regulated.

Trend noticed on here. I have seen employers openly advertise crap pay (120) and others have taken this as an anchor/example and others are now also advertising crap pay.

What can we do? Not much as this is market forces. The new visa regulations will cause a blip in the teacher supply thing for the first wave, but actually could even force rates down as some employers will use some borderline legal cases to leverage rates down IMHO.
One thing we can do is hit the employer where it hurts, by wasting their time and money. Actually apply for jobs you are not going to take, send resume (use bogus hotmail address), change name and photo, do the phone interview etc, and when you are offered the job, don't turn up, and send an email later saying 'crap pay mate'. IF WE ALL DID THAT.

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Forums > Food & Drink > Fish and chips in KM?

cider vinegar is also a generic termfor concentrated apple syrup. thatis what they have in china.

cider alcohol made from fermented apples, not seen in kunming, only seen it imported in other cities and about 30 kuai for 330ml bottle.
There is another cider drink in china. It is just like lemonade (7up) with alchol added. This crap comes in small tins at some supermarkets.

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Train Ticket Booking Office

Travel agents next to Camelia Hotel on Dongfangdong Lu, near the stadium. They are used to dealing with foreigners. Not sure about the service as I have never used them, but I know they are there. They usually seem pretty busy.

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travel for business more needed by globalization but less needed in the connected world. travel for mind and spirit does not need to be by air. air travel is feed by and in turn feeds bucket lists. how many cities in the world are being damaged by tourism now? frickin loads mate. how many people are travelling to paris who have not even visited the next province?

watched it, seems like the problem is chinese obsession with sex that is destroying the culture, not western who is just voyeurs. seemsmaybe like certain ex colony gentlman has a problem with westerners

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Swedish design ideas, kunming build quality. i have bought lots of ikea stuff in the past, the furniture at #11 are poor facsimiles of genuine item. Yes stuff is affordable, but poorly made and overpriced in my opinion. we took a good look around and looked closely at build quality and walked away.

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It might be worth identifying which Prague venue you are reviewing.

When I first arrived in Kunming I did a tour of Wenlin Jie. I did't like the look of Prague.
More recently I have used Prague in Beichen a lot and I like it.

Ref the comment @nonsecond about being made sick from raw apple, WTF?