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anonymous
Q: How bad does the pollution have to get before you leave
I've been reading some articles about more and more foreigners leaving China because of how bad the pollution problem is getting.
Simple question, how bad does it have to get before you leave.
I saw an article the other day that said in Beijing the pollution has increased by about 30-40% compared to last year. If next year it increased again, and then again the following year would you still stay here or would you finally say enough is enough.
11 years 1 week ago in Health & Safety - China
If that happened it would be time to say adios, good bye sayonara China....if and only if....
Traveler:
Alas, Silva, you have no skills to offer the west, so you're stuck here.
Its not only water bro. check out, jsut 1hr before taken photo. Lujiazhui area of Shanghai, nearby my workplace. Pls, mention the brown suspicious object :D
Will they ever learn this ?
SoFresh:
reminds my of the office I work in. There's signs all over the kitchen (both in Chiense and English) saying to throw away your garbage in the garbage can.
Typically it's only Chiense staff who eat in there since most the foreigners eat out. After EVERY lunch though when you go in the kitchen there is garbage and left overs everywhere, yet the garbage can remains empty :)
LAR:
Hi SoFresh,
It's the same with a number of classrooms that I teach in. The Chinese students are slobs. They don't clean up after themselves and just leaves lots of garbage.
GuilinRaf:
I have had students spit in class, which annoys me. When I tell them to clean it up and they say that is "Ayi's job" I get furious....
Be as it may, I make sure they clean it up. Ayi has a hard enough job as it is, she sure as heck does not need students making it harder.
i was teaching at a university part time and noticed no trash cans in the classrooms and garbage everywhere, one day i saw the trash cleaner and ask him why they dont have trashcans, he said the students want use them anyway, so no point buying them. whom am i to argue with logic like that, my first critical thinker in china, a trash collector.
GuilinRaf:
Being a critical thinker is PRECISELY why he was relegated to garbage collection....
As always one should be critical of the sources of information. However if this article is to be believed, 1.2 million people die in China each year due to air pollution, 4th highest cause of early death after our other favorites
1. Dietary risk (fancy talk for diarrhea)
2. High blood pressure (a friendly thought to MSG)
3. Smoking
I guess we are pretty close to it being at my limit. Of course I live in a small city by the South China Sea with fresh air.
Nessquick:
I just quit smoking , started in saturday with dramatical reducing from 20 pcs per day to 7 in sunday, 2 in monday and today i am cigs free. Sure, is not about the will only. I use the NiQuitin stickers. It works very well. after 2 month, I will be fine and out of the one risk of early death 
