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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: Do you ever regret coming to live in China?
Most of the time, no. Only on really a really BCD. Are you having one now?
GuilinRaf:
Glad to help! Vent here, and be the epitome of sweetness in class tomorrow. At least thats how it works for me....
Do I regret it? No. Am I growing increasingly impatient because I'd like to home for a while? Yes. I am having more trouble feeling happy because there's only a month left and I'm getting antsy. It's starting to feel like the first few months I was here when I was still adjusting and was unhappy with a lot of things. I have never been so anxious to go home in my entire life. When I was in college, I could have cared less about going home. This is different on so many levels.
It doesn't help that this is also the time when I'm looking for another job. The homesickness is overriding my desire to find a new job. However, I have applied to teach in Korea (besides the jobs I applied for in China), which seems much more exciting to me, so maybe that's what I need instead of another year in China. So if I end up not coming back to China, sorry folks, it was nice knowing you.
nevermind:
Korea slam dunks China in terms of awesomeness. i WISH My industry had good gigs there.
no i don't regret it ,i am happy to be here ,got good job, stable life ,and a peaceful life ,what else i need to look for ?nothing ........so i am happy to be here
I regret it. I should have tried harder to get a decent job in America.
On the one hand, i get to teach, which I love. But I could have given up on teaching and worked at a grocery store or something like that in the states, and I think I'd be happier.
The only downside is that in America there are a lot of disgusting fat people. That's one thing I like about here: people aren't obese.
Tapwater:
My problem with China is that there aren't a lot of people I can talk to because I don't speak the language. I'm also just not the kind of guy who makes friends easily, so I'm intensely lonely here.
On top of that, I really don't like the food.
TedDBayer:
I've always made people laugh, I'm friendly, if l make someone laugh it picks me up, don't know why I'm like this .I blame it being raised on Looney Tunes. So i can usually make the Chinese i see often laugh, i can't speak Chinese use my translator or just act out. My problem is all around me are beauty shops, and the girls live in apartments around me too, so guess who l joke around with mostly. Even at home I have more women friends than men. I find some girls are just mean, some think they are gods gift and some are basically nice girls, but not ones I want to introduce to my GF. I feel sorry for some of them, been thrown out, I suppose no where to go, they say they don't mind, then there are girls travelling and they just need money. Its a different view of China as I thought the girls were more modest and shy. I've started eating street food, my Gf says not to, I like the fried noodles and barbecued what was that thing. Now I can eat fo 15y instead of 125y
I'm home now, but my last year and a half all I did was long for home. First year and a half were good though.
I pinched a nerve in my back last night, I'm in real pain, I iced my back and went out for supplies today, not in a great mood, every time I go I love the scenery and thats just the average ones, then theres the ones that OMG make me walk into telephone poles.
Seriously l could live here but l have a home full of my pets that l will never give up and it would have to be some place that the winter isn't cold.
What l hate most about home,,,,winter, well spring has black flies, l hate cops and traffic tickets, here l can run red lights,, in the dead of night in a small town deserted off traffic l couldn't do that. and a trip to Walmart, well ll can't get over how fat people are,,, the prices of everything,, Canada is an oil rich country why did gas double this year. lf things don't work out with my GF, then l'll spend next winter in Dominica with my pets lying on a beach, at least they wouldn't want to go shopping.My dog loves me and never bitches at me or has temper tantrums,why can't l train a woman like this, SIT, ROLL OVER, BEG, QUIET NO BARKING, GOOD GIRL
I haven't regretted it yet. But then again, my longest stint here has been 5 months. I think that's been my key to happiness/sanity....being able to get out of the country and back to civilization about once a quarter, which is where I'm at now! Hooray!
sometimes i do but looking to experience, learning , understanding , compromising, than i say its worth it.
No, I love my girlfriend and that out trumps any of the crap I get day to day in China. Do I wish China was different? Of course. But no country is perfect.
No, but I regret learning the language.
Why? Because I used to like Chinese people a lot more when I didn't understand them.
Not really, I have a good stable job and the city I'm in is pretty clean. All in all I'm happy even though some days I just want to give up. But then again I felt that way more than a few times back home