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Q: Does China save lives?
I know an older fellow who was about to commit suicide before comming to China. His brother invited him to come and join himm for a year and since then has been here 11 years. He likes to work with Chinese students in improving their English and that is what helps him get up in the morning. He only avoids white wine and marriage, other than that he is very happy. Do you know of similar stories?
Are you saying going to China is the same as committing suicide? I can't see how avoiding white wine would be good. No one likes work enough to want to get up in the morning. I would have slashed my throat several times shaving rather than go to work, dam electric razors, even if you hold them on your throat for 5 minutes, they are useless.
juanisaac:
What I am saying is that some people have miserable lives in their countries and once they come here they are finally happy. It seems strange, but some people's hell hole is another's paradise.
I know one guy that finally got a gf.
Another on the verge of suicide until he got married here.
Another guy who loves that the politically correct stuff he has to say in his country no longer applies here and can say what he wants.
Another dood who makes alot more cash here working less hours than he did back home.
For all that is wrong with this place, some foreigners do very well.
Not this guy
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/24/amnesia-victim-dies...
tragic story.
I think China has something to offer that Western countries do not.
Escape from the rat race and rampant consumerism.
It certainly does not suit everyone, but I can see how the lifestyle here can suit some personalities more than the lifestyle at home.
Strange when you think about it. Many come here and find escape from the very thing the Chinese are blindly rushing head first into.
Nice story Juan 
. Thanks for sharing. Got me thinking.
Scandinavian:
I have never seen consumerism like in China. I do come from a world where people are know for simple lives, so maybe colored by that, but the ONLY thing I see Chinese do, is consume. This is how I view Chinese culture. "Shopping"
Hotwater:
Rose tinted glasses methinks......for the majority of Chinese the rat-race is worse here. Need to good job to get an apartment and lots of pressure if you don't have one. Got to be seen with the latest iphone/samsung/xiaomi, etc. Yet these things, compared to general wages, cost an arm and a leg (or a kidney!)
I see Chinese consumerism and wanting to be one up on the Joneses (or the Zhongs, Chens, etc) as worse than in the "West".
But......China is also an escape from the pressures that can be found living in the West. For a lot of foreigners here, salary can go further and because of not understanding the language you can wrap yourself in a nice bubble and be somewhat adrift of everyday issues and worries.
Yep, look at all the lives that were saved during the various revolutions! 
