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Q: Besides online banking, what else is more complicated here than your country?
It really sucks how slow and embarrassing online bank services are in China. Seems like they just started doing it last easter. Too slow and complicated to be able to do it.
If you have had any good experience to be able to transfer from chinese account to another chinese account please mention the bank. In my country is as simple as just go in the bank, make a line and I get the device to do it.
Brick and mortar banking
Scandinavian:
and you can take any activity and add "...without getting ripped off"
Everything!
With the possible exception of being killed.
Scandinavian:
yeah, in the UK all you have to do is say "Fish 'n' chips sucks" then you're pushing daisies.
Registering for classes at a Chinese university. Holy moly, have they never heard of online registration? They have a convoluted system of going to 12 different rooms to perform 1 or 2 steps each of a 20 step process that should take 5 minutes, tops. Instead it took several hours. I could have been handed a folder with all the necessary forms and handouts the moment I walked in the door, and talked to 1 guy who takes all my information and my money.
Buying a train ticket is something that should be easy, but their crappy 2002 era website, and confusing mobile apps make it a huge pain to buy one. Plus, I can't just use an automated machine at the station like the Chinese, even though my passport has an electronic chip inside.
At least taking a bus or subway is super easy compared to back home, as long as you live in a T1 or T2 city. I've been to cities like Dongguan where you still have to buy a paper ticket from the bus assistant, because their machines still don't work with IC cards.
Getting a straight answer , getting vital info, getting books for my class, getting my schedule , getting a class list,
Getting a straight answer , getting vital info, getting books for my class, getting my schedule , getting a class list,
Buying a decent stock of decent beer.
Try to get from any supermarket more than what is on the shelf of S.Miguel or Asahi (if there's any at all .....)
Driving. Go stand at a big intersection in a 2T city. Yeah, there are traffic lights and they do follow them some, but by and large it is a free-for-all.... quite amusing to watch ! 
andy74rc:
That doesn't bother anymore. I mastered the art of me first, not yielding to nobody and constantly showing who's got it bigger.
Had to use myself a sheer amount of violence to get to the point though....
literally everything
buying a sim card, figuring out a data plan, paying for electricity, anything that you can imagine
i sometimes feel like a baby here, i can't take care of anything alone....i always need a friend who can speak Chinese and most of the time i don't get exactly what i want so i learned to lower my standards....actually now i don't think i have any standards but whatever
Trying to get new internet installed or paying for your internet. It literally takes me half a day to do because you have to wait in line for around 3 hours. Oh and going to hospitals.
Buying alcohol, Baijiu sucks, I'm sure I bought fake Baileys at Walmart. I drank a whole bottle, no buzz.
