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Forums > Study > Another Visa thread : Visa extension for students

Without proper Official Being Papers you can't live anywhere - though you might ask around about the Canadian who stayed in Kunming FOR YEARS after both his visa AND HIS PASSPORT had expired - a local legend, and a true one. When he finally left he crossed three international borders illegally, over a period of about a year, before he decided to go back to Canada.

I guess he might be considered some kind of hero. However, I strongly advise against making such attempts.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Does your gf pay rent?

@Magnifico: I just sit around philosophizing about it. However, my responses to Lightning are not philosophical and don't have to do with having or not having a family.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Does your gf pay rent?

@Lightning: by 'foreign relationship' you must be referring only to relatively well-off westerners, right?
As for the mores of living with a Chinese woman, it's not that simple - times and attitudes are changing.
'Being milked dry' is not what always happens, but when the westerner concerned has more bread than the wife's family, it seems to me that helping to support them is not uncalled for.
I find your prejudice against 'a lower class of women' offensive.
What do you mean by 'Western Educated' and 'well educated'?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > hilarious article

Actually I'd say there are fewer sketchy parts of Kunming than there are in Paris, London, and almost any US city I can think of.

You may be right about the petty theft in Kunming - seems to me it's definitely true as concerns bicycles, but otherwise I'm not so sure about it (oh, the occasional lifted unguarded bag maybe) - could be right, but in my 11 years here I haven't noticed all that much of it, and I've never had anything stolen.

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@Dazzer: But I am interested in answers, and what they indicate (e.g., when few people acquire enormous amounts of wealth, influence, power and publicity and then give some of it to causes that THEY choose, what does this indicate? And what does it indicate to recognize that they can choose NOT to do so and be protected by the law?).

@HFCampo: in your history research you might notice a number of changes in the world over the past 2000 or 200 years, or perhaps over the past 2 minutes, and that even history written by 'the rich' makes a note of these changes.
@Dazzer: the system that put all that wealth in the hands of the people you mention is the same system that created the problems these people now have been empowered to decide to influence, as THEY choose, in one way or another. I didn't choose to give them this power to decide where money should go, did you?

It's not that the poor play the lottery because they're greedy, it's that greed is the basis of the whole system of exploitation/'suck-cess' and control of production/distribution that assures there will be few rich/powerful and many poor/weak. So the poor pay for gym equipment in parks for the elderly, who are not too well-off either.
@HFCampo: what makes you think the world doesn't change? When did history stop?

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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.