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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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@sezuwupom : "JanJal is living the good life [...] Igor's delivers to your door."

You forgot to mention that I recycle and care for environment, which is why I would prefer to pick up my bakeries on my way rather than have someone on scooter deliver it wrapped in plastics. Even if it would leave the plastic maker and the scooter driver jobless. They could find new jobs in Just Hot, which I keep in business.

But I wish best of luck to Igor's. If location is everything, they have some catching up to do to reach out to potential customers like they are doing in this paid review..

Went here one morning after grocery shopping in nearby Walmart.

No surprise, shelves were less than half-empty like they are in all upper scale bakeries I've visited in Kunming, specifically in the mornings before lunch.

They all seem to get stocked up few hours after lunch time, which for me is too late because I like to consume my sweets at home(=office) couple of hours after lunch, without making a separate trip for it.

Thus my staple bakeries remain from big and soulless chains like Just Hot, that have their donuts ready before 11am.

They also say time is a healer, and it takes time to grow. While time does get peope killed, it also helps greatly in reproduction. Without time, we would not have gotten where we are now - nor would we get to develop into extradimensional beings bound by neither space nor time, if we ban it now.

What I propose, is that we do not ban time, but instead develop ourselves beyond time, so that we no longer depend on it, and becomes indifferent to us.

On a related but more serious note, should humanity also develop beoynd organic in our feeding patterns?

For most people, things like "organic" or "free range" has already developed past hunting wild game and gathering roots and berries. For the minority that still practises such, our current methods to grow our food must appear as strange as eating protein grown in reactors would sound to many of us.

A store we frequent for vegetables and meat is Q+Life in B1 level of TKP Shopping Mall (Beijing Lu / Baiyun Lu). My wife has bought for their green advertising, I cannot vouch either way but I'm satisfied with the quality.

Well, we are having minor thunderstorm right now. Earlier in the week my phone's weather forecast showed daily rain drops in Kunming from end of this week til end of eternity, Or was it just the two weeks ahead it can show.

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