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Forums > Living in Kunming > the isp issue again....

Despite all the progress, China is still in many aspects a 3rd world country. In my area I've been to every provider, looked at every packet available and no matter what, it's just not possible to get faster internet since there are restrictions on private users and every single Chinese person streams shows and movies and you share the old cables with them. What's more, these days more and more Chinese people buy internet and TV in one, which means there's even more pressure on the many bottlenecks. Last year I was so desperate that I spent some guanxi on getting a commercial line (expensive stuff had it gone through, but worth it) but when they tested the copper, it turned out it just wasn't possible.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 3500RMB/month Standard of Living in Kunming

"If you get free housing and tuition, 3500 is enough to live like a duke or at least a lowly baron..." I'm sorry but that's just incorrect. I DO understand your points and I'm not talking Partying-like-there's-no-tomorrow+eating-Western-food-constantly. If you want to eat Western food maybe 2-3 times a month and go out once or twice, need to stock up a little on cheese, bacon, mayo and such from time to time (nothing extravagant) then 3500 isn't going to get you very far. All the things you touch upon where you skimp and save, well, that's what you don't have to do at all if you're on the more regular teacher salary around these parts for newbies: 5-6000+ including 1 or 2 one-on-one kids. It's actually not that difficult pulling that number above 10.000 and then we can begin talking nobility.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 3500RMB/month Standard of Living in Kunming

I'd say you'd be close to the "scraping by" standard of living. That said, I believe many of us who came to China were stuck on a lowly income for the first year. Most people find ways to double or triple that if they choose to stay longer. I don't recommend working in the public school system though. Your hourly pay is usually in the range of 30-40 yuan and that sucks. There'll be plenty of office hours, correcting homework and preparation so you'll be quite busy until you get the hang of it. You should be able to find a private ESL school paying almost double the 3500 these days for a lot less work. Either way you can supplement your income by tutoring.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Anyone feel the quake??

Kunming is not in a particular dangerous situation anyway. The high number of small, barely detectable by humans, and small-to-medium sized quakes like the ones you'll feel in tall buildings and sometimes at ground level, keep the pressure from building up to massive quake dimensions. Sure, it could still happen but there shouldn't be anything suggesting imminent +7 risk. I read somewhere that the number of small to medium sized quakes in Yunnan amount to some 4000 a year. That's a good thing.

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Since when did a 1 kilometre run become an 'endurance' test? During handball and football practice, our endurance training was rarely less than a 5 km run. Apart from that, many of my students talk enthusiastically about sports but when do they have time to train? My high school kids attend school 7 days a week, 6 of those from 8 morning to 11 at night (with 2x 1.5 hours breaks) and the little time left not spent at school is used for homework and what few extracurricular activities they have left, and they are always study related. At the start of this semester when a 1-on-1 student began 10th grade she finally had to give up on her piano lessons and her track and field (which she had enjoyed immensely) as well as her extra maths lessons because there's just no way for her to keep it up. Hell, even finding time for her private English lessons took 2 weeks of sorting out her schedule and intense planning. Before China begins complaining about the priorities of the youngsters, they ought to take a good, hard look at how the educational business is conducted and how teenagers are treated in this setting.

They have one of those here in Tengchong. They're noisy but people seem to enjoy it. The water wall projection is so-so but the laser/fountain thingy set to music looks very nice. I agree with Dazzer by the way that it it's a bit of an eye sore when the nozzles and the pipes protrude the water. Don't expect the movies to look spectacular though. When the novelty's worn off you find yourself struggling to figure out what's on 'screen'. The photo on top is definitely taken during one of the brighter moments.

Against capital punishment per definition here. Also, in China a bullet to the neck normally happens less than a month after the sentence and then that's it. These guys won't suffer, it will just be over. Personally I'd like them to spend life in a Chinese prison/work camp, every day like hell. Somehow seems more fitting.

30.000 a month for such a tiny place? Does The Box have 4-5 floors above it I'm not aware of included in that price? You could find cheaper storefronts in London's W2 no problem. The businesses ought to sit down together and all decide to move to another accessible area, sign cheaper 5 year leases and collectively raise their middle fingers to the greedy bastards at Wenhua Xiang.

Nice job allowing an insane murderer back into society so he could kill countless more people, eat their flesh and stack their eyeballs. That's what you get when you're focused on punishment and not rehabilitation, have nothing in place to do something about the mentally ill or some functioning psychiatric system able to determine if someone is fit to be released. Also, 4 YEARS to figure out who did this in a relatively small town where an insane loner with stacked human flesh on his property lives?? No one managed to tip off the police that, you know, just maybe they should go take a look at this guy's property?

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Went there yesterday and it totally made my week. Nice decor and friendly staff and a real salad bar. Sadly we both wanted mexican food so I can't really say much about their other courses. The food was great but just a tad spicier would have improved the dish. The best thing was that we almost had the place to ourselves and we could have a quiet conversation without shouting, spitting Chinese people in the background. I realised how much I had missed that since coming here.

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We went to Chicago Coffee a couple of days ago and it was a nice experience. The place is cozy with soft comfy chairs (I realized how much I have missed one since coming here) and they have a nice little collection of English language books in the corner consisting mainly of classics and travel litterature. I was looking forward to trying their advertized tortilla bar but it wasn't up and running that evening.

Instead we went for 2 12 inch pizzas -roast chicken and pepperoni- but we quickly realized that 1 would have been enough. Those things are heavy. I am mainly into Italian style pizza but Chicago's double layered pizzas are well worth a try. Their coffee seems to be a bit on the expensive side but people say good things about it and they have got a nice selection. I wouldn't mind dropping by again some day,, hopefully when they've got the tortilla thing going. English speaking staff btw.