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Forums > Living in Kunming > New Coronavirus

Hi, on this off-topic, I recently returned from a trip to HK and yes , you DO need to re-register your address at the police station, even if your address remains the same.
If you don't re-register you will have problems renewing your Visa later.

As for this

new strand of Crown Virus, it is very different from SARS, as it spreads more easily but it is much less lethal. Death rate of infected people is only around 2%, elderly/toddlers/people with low immunity are more at risk.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > ExpressVPN

How can I pay for ExpressVPN , the zhifubao QR code links and bank card options are blocked when you try to scan them or pay !!!!

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Forums > Living in Kunming > New Rules for Ebikes

I was thinking about buy a new bigger Ebike but I'm hearing from many that rules have changed, apparently now

you cannot get a license plate from the police if your ebike is not ''new'' or if it's too big, those are only given to tiny ebikes now.
Does anyone have more info on that? Is it true?

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I live in Chenggong and need to take the bus to Kunming on the weekends to work. So I gotta take bus 170 and stop at the bust terminal Ju Hua Cun to take yet another bus to work.

This sunday I was standing at the bus stop waiting for my usual 10:30 bus. and it jut would't come, after waiting for half an hour and getting desperate. Some kind chinese then stopped his car and told me that the morning bus service was canceled and that I should take the subway!

Guess what, after taking the subway and paying 4 damned kuai, I stopped halfway between Chenggong and Ju Hua Cun and guess which bus I had to take? Yes 170, the same bus take I used to take and that took me directly to from Chenggong to Ju Hua Cun for 2 kuai...

So they force you to take the subway, spend double the money, just to make you have to take the same bus you used to take again later because

and the subway stops halfway your route.

Add that to the fact I need to take another three buses you got Chaos, by the way, you'll have a surprise whenever you reach the last stop of you subway route, get out to take a bus and marvel at the amount of people waiting at the bus stop. You're screwed...

Louis... you about are 5 years late.

Kunming nowadays has brown skies and chaotic traffic. The headline photo above is deceiving, I bet it was either taken a long time ago or during the end of a prolonged holiday; the sky just doesn't quite look like that anymore. I don't want to sound like a hater but the truth can be rather disappointing.

I have lived and worked in all of the cities quoted above (as well as Taipei n HK) in exception of Xiamen and Qindao... Kunming is not a bad place to live, however the recent industrial output here and lack of diesel emission control is destroying the only reason KM was big in the eyes and nose of expats: the environment.

IN A COUPLE OF YEARS FROM NOW, the PM 2.5 levels will be reaching 200 constantly, there will be no advantages to choose Kunming over any other chinese city. Yes it will be hazy and unhealthier because when combined with its high altitude the health effects will be worst than other cinese cities.

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Call before you go, I went there on thursday and there was no one in there,

I called one of the owners, and they said that they weren't going to open.

I lost my trip, I love the concept of the restaurant, No MSG and etc, but ended up having to pay for a cab ride and getting a growling stomach.

If the same thing happens to you, just go down the road until the road ends and the last 2 story restaurant across the street is very also decent. Order the sweet and sour fish and it also won't have any MSG.

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No Bus to Chenggong from the airport, had to go downtown and get a 150 RMB taxi.

I mean isn't this a district of Kunming? Then why not make transportation available?

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