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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2 year visa and renting an apartment

I have understood that this arrangement between UK and China is about China matching offering that UK has for Chinese visitors (with up to 10 year visitor visa).

The rules for the equivalent UK visa mention this under "can't do":

"live in the UK for long periods of time through frequent visits"

(source: www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa)

I would assume that China is matching that limitation as well, but I do not have direct information.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2 year visa and renting an apartment

Sorry I can't, since there are so many factors. In your OP you didn't even mention your visa type.

Since you are still only considering the visa, I suggest you carefully study everything you can find.

Either way it is irrelevant to the renting issue. I guess even tourists coming to country for 1 month can rent apartment if they come to agreement with landlord about payments.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > 2 year visa and renting an apartment

I don't remember landlord or even agency ever checking my visa, or even passport more than to copy the passport number to the papers.

So I'd say it does not make a difference.

But you may need to pay 12 or 6 months upfront regardless of visa.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Experience with medical care in Kunming?

@alienew:

I can comment that when we were staying in maternity hospital waiting for delivery, we could order food to the room by the usual delivery services.

I don't know if this applies for other (especially public) hospitals.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Experience with medical care in Kunming?

@Geezer:

Thanks for the info.

Did you have any kind of internatonal medical insurannce at the time?

I have cover, and am wondering how the payments and reimbursements would go in practise.

The insurance provider lists a few hospitals in Kunming as preferred places to go to, so I have been assuming that the hospital could settle the payments with the insurance company directly.

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"support the website by making an account, asking questions in the forum, leaving reviews and using the classifieds section to find a job, sell your stuff or rent an apartment."

This (or rather what is not included in that list of to-dos) sums the criticism that I personally have toward the whole ordeal, and how GoKunming (out of no choice I understand) had to respond to it with rest of the nation.
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Ask questions and increase revenue, but feel free to avoid discussing and, heaven forbid, debating anything.

Not sure if this applies to Italy visas, but for many other European countries:

The Joint Visa Application Center that used to be in Beichen, is now relocated to an office building at intersection of .Shibo Road and Bojin Avenue.

New address:
1501D, Building A, Low Carbon Business Center, No. 12 Shibo Road, Kunming City, Yunnan Province 650000 China

www.vfsglobal.cn/finland/china/contact_us.html#14

I'm not a big fan of croissants anyway, and donuts I have not found in either of the establishments you mentioned.

@Dolphin: "savouring the croissant helps to cultivate appreciation. ie appreciating simple things rather than always feeling discontent that you don't have enough"

Perhaps, but it equally helps to cultivate ignorance of all the labor that has been put into creating that experience for you. At least I would allow you to feel discontent on behalf all the people who don't have enough, whether they had part in creating the croissant or not.

I't shouldn't anymore be about what you have or don't have, but what the other 7.7 billion (minus 1) people have or don't have. That's where the musings of Buddha (as quoted above) go wrong in this day and age.

There perhaps was a time, when embracing reality same way you would savour the croissant, could have been beneficial to achieving an enlightened state of mind.

But today, many would call such view on life quite the opposite of enlightened - it could be called ignorance or covering your eyes from all that is wrong. Perhaps that's suitable in Chinese context.

There, I connected the croissant to politics.

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