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Forums > Living in Kunming > Buying MianBaoChe ?

IF you really need a car, and IF you can reasonably assure yourself that a particular 2nd-hand car is okay, it's better to buy the 2nd-hand one, since it does not put yet another car on the road.
But those are 2 big IFs.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Freezing Foreign Accounts ?

Got my BOC account straightened out today at the local branch where I'd opened it many years ago. When I explained that I'd "heard" something about all this and was there to straighten it out, with various id's, the clerk pretty much guessed what it was about, asked me if I'd gotten a phone call about it, I said no (I'd been out of town). I have 2 accounts with them, one of which was opened on a previous passport. I offered various id's, including my police registration, and she only wanted to see the latter, plus my current & former passports and my bank books. She photocopied a few things, asked a colleague about something - all polite and without many questions, and only took about 10 minutes. I'm told everything is cool now, but I'm still not entirely sure what it was all about, or even if I really needed to do this today, as I'd previously done the thing with the 2 different passports & accounts anyway when transferring money from one account to the other. Didn't need to see the manager or anybody above the window clerk.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Request leave China in 10 days

This sounds nasty, but I don't quite get it. Is it that the school who sponsored your visa now simply doesn't want to consider continuing to sponsor you because you've decided not to study there? Seems to me there might be some logic in this...have I got this right? But how is it that they are presently holding your passport?
Anyway, wish you luck, the whole visa game is rather tiring.

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The metro will be a great thing but it's certainly going to cost - even better than the bus system, which was an excellent supplement to the bicycles before everybody started buying cars. The point is less that the metro will be good than that the automobile population is bad.

Much of modernity is seriously warped, and everybody wants to get in it and proudly make the same mistakes previously made by others. It's profitable too - for some.

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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.