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Q: How does it feel to leave China?
Hey guys,
I haven't been around for a couple of months. Been really busy trying to build a new presence back home and it just feels like trying to get a few years worth of stuff done in two months.
So am I happy I left China?
You bet, life is much simpler and easier here. My name "isn't too long" for the bank tellers and they don't accuse me of being an "international money laundering criminal". Everything just seems so easy to do... like it should be. Many things in China were so difficult simply because I was a foreigner.
But I do miss parts of Chinese chaotic culture. Just the zany, weird things that happen on a daily basis. I tell people stories here about what happened and they just don't believe it.
People around here actually like hearing stories about Chinese people because the Chinese have had a major effect on buying up property and building new business. That has been a major benefit for me back here as well with my cultural and language knowledge. Although its not how I earn a living (I do the same thing I did in China), it opens up opportunities and that wasn't something I really considered.
For those who have left China... do you regret it? How many of you are thinking of leaving China right now?
I don't mind visiting China, the only thing I really do miss about China is my Chinese family.
G'day Robk, good to hear you're alive and kicking.
I don't know how much longer I'll stay in China but a condition of my wife's residency in Aust requires her to spend 2 of the next 5 years there.
This will require some juggling of personal arrangements for us and we don't yet have a plan. She has a good job and leaving it before she can take early retirement is not ideal.
And as I'm over 50, and have let my professional registration lapse, finding employment in some other field will be very difficult.
Luckily I'm not unlike Scotty and yourself...a nutter. Haaha!
Cheers cobber.
Robk:
Yeah, I am thinking of doing the same thing with my wife. I got the same issue as well. She has a great job in China and runs her own sort of training school. If I move her to Canada, I am not quite certain what she can do. So it seems like a huge risk but if you want to have children, it seems like a no-brainer at all.
China does appeal to the crazy part of us doesn't it?
Good luck with your new ventures robk. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. You gave it a go, and you will keep going til you get your magic break.
Massive respect to you.
For me, I don't want to miss my family. Yeah I want the clean air and good food of Scotland. But I want my daughter to have her family.
I will stay here till my daughter wants to leave. China has driven me mad. I enjoy being mad.
I don't want to be a "When I". You know what I mean.. "When I was in Chiner".....
A china hand I am not. But from one nutter to another.. I wish you luck 
Robk:
Thanks ScotsAlan, I know what you mean. There are things about China that I would prefer about starting a family. For example, Chinese people just do seem more connected with their family and I used to think it was JUST because of financial means and to support each other but that's not entirely the case.
If I could combine traits of Canada with China, then I think that would be the perfect country for me.
G'day Robk, good to hear you're alive and kicking.
I don't know how much longer I'll stay in China but a condition of my wife's residency in Aust requires her to spend 2 of the next 5 years there.
This will require some juggling of personal arrangements for us and we don't yet have a plan. She has a good job and leaving it before she can take early retirement is not ideal.
And as I'm over 50, and have let my professional registration lapse, finding employment in some other field will be very difficult.
Luckily I'm not unlike Scotty and yourself...a nutter. Haaha!
Cheers cobber.
Robk:
Yeah, I am thinking of doing the same thing with my wife. I got the same issue as well. She has a great job in China and runs her own sort of training school. If I move her to Canada, I am not quite certain what she can do. So it seems like a huge risk but if you want to have children, it seems like a no-brainer at all.
China does appeal to the crazy part of us doesn't it?
Good luck to you. I guess the nostalgic feeling will be there for a while.
I have several friends who moved back to the US in these past 3 years. For a while they were all bitching about the nostalgia of China..........till they came here again for a short visit. All doubts gone.
I have most likely 18-24 month to go, before either going back straight to Italy or spending couple of years in Myanmar and then back to Italy.
China's done its time in my profession. That would make 13 to 15 years in Asia. Plenty bloody enough in every possible regard.
