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Q: A question for everyone: How has living and working in a foreign country changed you?

How?

10 years 49 weeks ago in  Business & Jobs - China

 
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How? It has made me fatter and it has helped me to gain more wrinkles and white hairs  cool

 

But it has also made me more open-minded, self-confident and resourceful and it has increased my thirst for traveling and living in other countries. A positive change overall

 

 

 

 

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It's made me more violent. I never used to punch men in the face before working in Asia.

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Patience is the greatest change I experienced.  And learning how to just let things go.

 

Without learning those two skills, I would have been dead from a stroke or a bar fight within the first 4 years.

mArtiAn:

I heard that.

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BHGAL:

Me too ....Patience, patience patience..........but still got a ways to go. As well as just "letting go" .....  i.e. don't need it ..... want and need, want and like ...get over it dammit.

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I find myself getting less patient, lol. And some things I can never let go.

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ditto for Xpat John's statement.

 

and on a humorous note,,, I now feel a little (or a lot) odd being around white people.  never thought about it much before, but seen & been around more white people in the last 6 months than in the last 10 years.   

some of them said I sound funny when I speak.  like they could not place where I am from.  wow,, that got me thinking...  I wonder if that could be true.  I do know I use chinglish more readily/normally than the Queen's English.

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Are you black or something?

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It's increased my communication skills ten-fold... along with my desire to take to the streets, and punch random people in the face until the cops stop me. Well, Hunan did. Here in my secret, non-hunan hideaway, I'm enjoying my life thoroughly.

 

EDIT: It's also helped me to be more humble... you don't see it here on these forums, but in real life there's a drastic difference. I'm not the dbag I sound like on these forums. Honest injun!

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Food is oily & salty. I gained more pounds.

 

Mass transit system is good but most Chinese do not know to keep it clean.

 

Living in China is stressful. Never experienced so much discrimination & prejudice by Chinese & fellow Americans.  

 

It made feel home sick. Life back home is better than China. At least we know how to deal with it.

 

There is equal opportunity for everybody not just "Native Speakers"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    

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Living in Japan and South Korea was wonderful, living in China made me realize how important are the basic set of rules and morals brought by judeo-christian religions in our western societies, me a non-religious person. I also learned to appreciate fresh air, being able to run outside, drinkable tape water, non-fried or oily food, people minding their own business and not staring at me, quality housing.

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ditto to Eothisio above plus ... I have turned into a slug... I love the tropical climate I am in, but of course crave the cool, crisp air of autumn and winter at home....  grass is always greener on the other side.

thing about the food....  you can get whatever you want... just gotta pay. I just now got a $100 - 613rmb delivery of stuff I just can't find here .... all the way from Shenzhen in a day.

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the housing...get real...  I pay $450+/- for a place that would be $12-1400 back home... sure nothing wrong with the housing here. hot water...shower..western toilet and a squat...  3 bedrooms...  shitty chinese kitchen....   

xinyuren:

Are from america?  Because you can't find an equivalent house at any price in China.  Your $450 concrete box isn't even legal in America.  It would be condemned and torn down.  There is no comparison.

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I am from Canada .. and this place I live at is up to the standards I knew before I came here and it is 1/3 the cost +/-

plus it is furnished, although I have bought some better stuff, because I am spoiled.

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Oh.  Maybe you have different codes in Canada.  In America, you can't build a house without insulation, proper plumbing, and  such cheap electrical.  And that's just for starters.  An American inspector would have a nervous breakdown in China.

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the housing...get real...  I pay $450+/- for a place that would be $12-1400 back home... sure nothing wrong with the housing here. hot water...shower..western toilet and a squat...  3 bedrooms...  shitty chinese kitchen....   

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the housing...get real...  I pay $450+/- for a place that would be $12-1400 back home... sure nothing wrong with the housing here. hot water...shower..western toilet and a squat...  3 bedrooms...  shitty chinese kitchen....   

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I am with Eorthisio; living in China has made me respect religious systems. As an agnostic product of a crazed Fundamentalist Christian home, I never thought I would say that. But, the longer I have been here, the more I recognize that the Chinese Muslims stand out for their sense of responsibility to their fellow man, and do not just take care of themselves and their families. 

 

It used to make me more patient, but I think I am actually losing my temper more these days. It is hard to work for people ( in my case, a province-level university that absolutely has the resources to be a decent employer) who expect me to show up to my job if I am dying, but give so few shits about their employees that getting a 30 day z visa turned to a residency permit in time to prevent overstay is a nightmare. The me-me-me attitude wears thin...

 

I also appreciate my home country more. 

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Whoops, double post.

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I have more patience, and I won't blink one eye at things that would have been scary to my past self. I have much more appreciation about my home country. I don't take for granted many things l use to consider as trivial.

 

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I've always had to adjust my barometer whenever I've stayed in another place for an extended time, but never before as much as China.  Living in China is almost like extreme vacationing.  It's like I traveled in a time machine to the past.   My 6 month stay in France, I was just a tourist, living in the countryside.  I was insulated from the national problems.  In China, I have come face to face with them.  The longer I stay here, the more I am convinced that this will be a pivotal spot on the globe that will make history in the near future.  I am fortunate to be an observer of this history.  At this moment, there is no other place I'd rather be.

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