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Forums > Living in Kunming > Chinese Human Compassion

So to sum this whole threat up:

If you witness an accident and are thinking about helping:

You should remember that no foreigner has ever been deported for that.

You can call an ambulance but it is not recommended to call from your phone.

You better pray she's not an old woman (or anyone) who will try to sue you afterwards.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > "I don't like these Chinese ways"

I used to get stared at a lot when I was living in Nanjing, here in Kunming it is much, much less.

I must say I'm a bit of a Viking here, 6'4, blonde, blue eyes and sort of athletic, I always felt the stares were "natural" or out of curiosity and admiration and the chinese always look very happy when they stare at me, like with a spark on their eyes, I often like to imagine what they are commenting when they are with friends.

Doesn't bother me the least. The helloooooooooooos are truly strange though, I have to admit.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Non-smoking bar or dance club WANTED

My nostrils and lungs have a low tolerance for smoking clouds of Arsenic and Lead.

Could anyone recommend a bar or dance club in Kunming.

Even if smoking is allowed, a well ventilated suggestion would be appreciated.

I've been living here for 2 months and I'm getting tired of not hanging out.

Dan

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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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