True - PR investment in tourist image does tend to lead to lying, direct or indirect, by private business as well as by local administrations - pretty universal - but faking AQI, as in the link you presented, is really too much.
Can't give you recent information, but in my past experience, in the US pool conditions and supervision is generally pretty good - meaning, well, I can't remember wanting to complain about anything beyond maybe the Ph was not right (too much chlorine), and that they were sometimes crowded. No real problems in Hong Kong or Paris either - I'm a fairly enthusiastic swimmer. Yes of course there must certainly be exceptions to 'good'. Your comment about your reading about pool conditions and supervision is very vague - where is it that all these pool conditions are so bad? And in comparison to pool conditions - where - England? What are conditions that are not 'poor'? Obviously nowhere is anything perfect.
Dreary to be reminded that this kind of thing happens - reflects serious social irresponsibility, especially in (some, at any rate) provincial and local administrations - hard to know how widespread it is, but my hunch is that it is not nearly rare enough.
Sh*t happens, choose your game, good luck to everybody.
Actually, what my friend was referring to was the way those of us from more northerly, wetter climates begin to think it gets cold and rainy here, after a few years - but cf. where?
Not sure how the Middles Easterners, Mediterraneans, Southeast Asians and Indians cope.
AQI and tobacco processing - interesting. I haven't had severe eye irritation in Kunming, but I don't live in the north.
I pay no attention to UV index.
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Not quite what you'd call a jumping place, but not bad at all for rather standard US-type meals, not overly expensive, and with a really good salad bar that's cheap, or free with most dinner dishes after 5:30PM. You can get a bottle of beer or even wine if you really want to, but I've never seen anybody do it - maybe that's just to take out. Chinese Christian run, and they hire people with physical disadvantages, who are pleasant and helpful. Frequented by foreign (mostly North American) Christians and Chinese Christians - was started by a Canadian couple associated with Bless China (previously, Project Grace), who are no longer here, but no religious pressure or any of that. Steaks are nothing special, and I avoid the Korean dishes, which I've had a few times but which did not impress me.
As a shop and bakery, it's very good bread at reasonable prices, of various kinds (Y18 for a good multigrain loaf that certainly weighs well over a pound. Other stuff too, like granola and oatmeal that is local, as well as imported things, including American cornflakes and so forth, which some people seem to require.
Large portions, seriously so with the pizza, which is Brooklyn/American style, I guess. Convivial, conversational, good place to drink with good folks on both sides of the bar, especially after about 9PM.
Too bourgeois.
Really good pizza and steaks. The wine machine fuddles me when I'm a bit fuddled, & seems unnecessary. Good folks on both sides of the bar.
Ain't no flies on Salvador's.
Government looking to step up supervision of Erhai
Posted byNasty influence of concentrations of private money/power.
Government looking to step up supervision of Erhai
Posted bySeems necessary - purely local administrations are unlikely to consider the effects of their actions on areas under other local administrations. On the other hand, if this just means Kunming-based Yunnan administrators making all decisions for local inhabitants without their consultation it will likely not work, or will lead to other problems. But something does need to be done about Erhai.
Fundraiser: buying rice threshers for Guizhou farmers
Posted byLocal cash contributions? Where?
Fundraiser: buying rice threshers for Guizhou farmers
Posted bySeems like a decent idea - anybody know these people?
Urban management officers replaced by plants
Posted byI wonder if any of the problems that have to do with unlicenced vendors etc. might have something to do with a (relative) downturn in an economy, a lack of well-paying jobs for those with few formal qualifications, and an increasingly unequitable socio-economic system?