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Forums > Living in Kunming > Competitive salary

Seems to me they're doing ok, thanks to the tuition fees that middle- & upper-middle-class parents can afford to pay (somebody correct me if I'm wrong).

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Forums > Travel Yunnan > Fingerprints

Similar attitudes everywhere. By the time you are an adult you should have something to hide. Unsurprisingly, the Authorities everywhere have a different point of view - comes with the territory. Mostly this is all done with electronic surveillance, but Progress has been making this sort of thing possible for quite a long time, for better and/or worse - but hey! it's all among friends...
Nothing new to worry about, really.

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How did that statement go, by an anti-fascist in Germany about 1939? "When they came for the Jews I did not speak up because I was not a Jew, when they came for the communists I did not speak up because I was not a communist; when they came for me I didn't bother because when I looked around there was nobody left to support me' - something like that.

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'Human flesh hunt' - what a nice term.

I still think her speech went over the top, both about the wonders of the US and the air in kunming - I've certainly never 'felt sick' from merely breathing Kunming air - but it would be nice if people in China could roll a bit with the fact that Chinese themselves might be willing to criticize the country in a public, international forum, without being accused of betraying their homeland etc. etc. etc.
But hey! Let everybody talk, backtalk, whatever.

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Oh hell look, I hope these kids have fun and even maybe become child models or something and help out their families, but if this being passed off as an effort by the overwhelmingly ridiculous, superfluous, flaky airhead fashion industry is supposed to represent giving useful economic opportunities to poor rural populations in Yunnan, I'm afraid I remain to be convinced.

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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.