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Forums > Living in Kunming > Air Quality!!! Kunming Not So Good.

With the exception of people who have really significant problems with bad air, perhaps the knowledge that air quality in Kunming is not so good, compared with some (but by no means all) other places, is enough. This thread has made me aware of the fact - fine - and I've noticed it has gotten worse over the years, but it has never had any effect on my plans for the day - for how many posters is this otherwise?
I do glance at the weather reports sometimes (rain, shine, temperature) and perhaps make plans accordingly.
Comment from a longtime resident, from elsewhere, the other day: "Living in Kunming makes people pussies about the weather" - I agree, have noticed it in myself.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > rating employers

my 2 cents' worth:

Seems to me the thread is a good idea.

Napoleon is right: the door is ajar - but you don't have to open it.
Would be fine to see different opinions, what's wrong with that? Strikes me as indeed useful, especially for people applying from overseas.
Note that employers may certainly exchange comments about employees/former employees - and/but they do it privately, among themselves, no?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Lunar eclipse

telescope would provide same details as any other night, but less clear because of lesser reflected light from the moon - just in different color.

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And it was all good. Congratulations & best wishes always!

Yeah, a few more articles like this one, which connect real people in the foreign community with real Chinese people (despite occasional cultural unfamiliarities), rather than the simple recounting of relationships involving stereotypical misunderstandings on both sides that often appear in the forums.

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I'm sorry but I don't find any improvement with the new format - I don't mean it's any worse, just that this kind of shifting of things around is more trouble than it's worth, both for the website folks & for the users. Add concrete content, okay; but don't bother with the appearances thing.

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Good idea, hope people will contribute whatever they can - imagine being sent to school & not being able to afford glasses to see the blackboard! Elementary education may be free in China but there are seemingly minor expenses that prevent many poor in the countryside from taking full advantage of them - not exactly a level playing field.

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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.

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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.

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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.