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Q: I really like it here..better than home..it is home..anybody else?

in my little couple years here  ... I have a life that is not much different than home, at about half the costs of "home".  How could that be wrong ......and I have the most beautiful wife and an unbelievably caring family.  instead of going to a Chinese restaurant once or twice a year as a "treat", I have the option every day...actually I have it fed to me every day. My tax rate is way down... my cash is up..... .. blood pressure down and I just am enjoying my time here..... hahaha.. there is a place to relax in China and I have found it.

 

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Good for you. I do think this is home, but back home is too. I am torn. 

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Dude, where are you from? There's a cheap Chinese restaurant on every street corner * in Australia! I could eat Chinese food a couple of times a week if I wanted - even the very specific cuisine that I most like. I thought they were universal...

 

(*a slight exaggeration. But, only a slight one)

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ahhhhh..but then me and my family   ..Canada ...  go out for dinner,,    mom brothers sisters etc........that's when we go for Chinese at $15/plate

and we don't all live in big city downtown locations where the food choices are like you have.

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Yes A, you are right.  And how much more like Chinese food is Chinese food in Australia!  Good Grief....If only Chinese people realised how they were being ripped off.  What they're eating here is nothing short of muck.  If I could but find a way to offer them some real Chinese food......Alas, I don't quite have the business acumen and wherewithall to pull it off...

 

 

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Surely you don't have to take the whole family out every time you feel like a cuisine! There's treat nights and then there's cheap takeaway night.

 

Yes, I live in a big city, but it's not just the big cities that have Chinese food. Australia must be remarkably different from Canada in this respect. I used to have a flatmate that came from a town of 400. The entire town centre consisted of one petrol station, one post office/corner store, one pub and.... a Chinese restaurant! They seriously are everywhere.

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Royce, oddly enough I missed some of the 'non-authentic' Chinese food while living in 'China.' Of course the Uyghur/Hui food more than made up for it. Mmmmmmm, DaPanJi, samsa, kebabs, laghman, polo, Uyghur Ice cream... alright that's it, I'm totally hitting up the Uyghur place in town for lunch today!

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I'm with Royce here!

 

Back in OZ there was better Chinese food, more variety esp with the duck dishes, not just Peking Duck (very overated, in my opinion!) as you do mainly here,but you can get all sorts of different duck.

 

ALSO ~ the fish dishes didn't have any nasty bones, loved em. Here, good chance on choking on most fish dishes. Fuck that!

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I'm from Melbourne and i agree with MissA and royce, Chinese food back in OZ is great, can't compare it to the extremely oily, sloppy, bland food you get in most restaurants here

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China is home for me too. I was career US Army prior to retiring and going into the private sector, left my hometown at 18 and never looked back. Wherever I am is home.

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If you want to eat real Chinese food then you better get the hell out of China because the muck they serve up here is doing a genuine disservice to Chinese food!

 

And is China home for me?  Well, what CharlieB said.  Also ex-army, and left home at 17.

 

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Yeah, I totally enjoyed living in China. I miss my old job. China is a very nice place to relax. I bought only imported stuff, things from western companies, etc.

 

I really enjoyed our time in China. If it weren't so polluted, and there weren't so many food scandals, I may have never returned home. Had to do what was best for my family.

 

We both miss China every day, but my wife wants to go back much less than I do. She really doesn't want to return after having tasted American life. Can't say I blame her. She has the freedom to say and do whatever she wants, and she really likes that. She never knew it existed before, and never concerned herself with other countries until I talked her out of living in China.

BHGAL:

THAT ..  I know is something I want to be aware of......wife and I are HAPPY AS HELL,  here now......if she ever got the taste of Canadian/American life.....I wonder if she would ever go home....... leave me stranded here in Zhanjiang

 

I'd have to work, and believe me, after a couple years here, I have no desire to work.

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With my wife, it's different. She doesn't like America if I'm not here with her. When she was by herself, she was crying all the time here, and wasn't happy. She was happy when I finally came home.

 

She says she just wants to be with me, no matter where we go, but that we should make the best possible decisions for our children.

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It's home for me and my family too. But there's room for improvement to say the least.

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too crowded and too polluted to ever be home. But I will always cherish my students and my wife.  The relationships I established here I wish I can carry back with me home to Texas.

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The longest I've continuously stayed in China at any one time was 5 months.  I was just about bonkers at the end of that stint.  I really don't know how you long termers do it.  My hat's off to you!

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  The pros still outweigh the cons but i'm getting into a pattern of visiting England twice a year to recharge my batteries. The pros and cons are prostitutes and criminals, if you're wondering, and the batteries are for my cattle-prod. We all need hobbies though, right?

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haha. wrong post. nothing to say.

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I disagree.

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I couldn't agree with you more! I usually don't read the comments anymore, because most are written by ignorant, racist, idiots who have nothing good to say about China (which, of course, begs the question: what the hell is keeping you here!? But that is another story...). But I love China, it will be my home forever, and I will never forget the chance they gave me to restart my life. Does it have problems? Of course, but so does every other country. The mistake most people make is they try to compare it to their home countries, and you can't do that. You will always be disappointed if you do. The fact is that the whole world is crazy, and you have to find for yourself a small corner in it somewhere where you can carve out your own piece of happiness. China is where I found mine. I'm glad you found happiness here also. Best of luck, my friend! 

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obviously ..i like it. Left home when 18. Now i am 22 and still a virgin. hahah  Really cant imagine any relationship with chinese men. 

Probably moving to a big city is an option but job career  n stuff

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It now feels like sentenced to prison to me. I'm wondering what crime I did commit. Should be something coming from previous lives....

Scandinavian:

maybe you have jumped the line in a supermarket somewhere in the civilized world. seems like a fitting punishment. 

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I like it better than home. I left home in 1988 and been traveling the world since.

china is the closest thing i could call home in a long time.

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So where have you been these past 25 yrs?  What places?  And which were best?

 

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I hate living at home more and more. China is liberating but still a trade off. Home property taxes up 30%, I pay more for property tax than I do for rent in China or other countries, Hydro up 30%.

 We are controlled by Nazis, I can't legally change a kitchen tap any more, my insurance tells me I need a new furnace oil tank because mine is over 10 years old- no rust on it, inflated price for new tanks $3000. I came home 2 months ago, customs seized my cell phone and computer, still don't have them back,  bought a new cell phone and computer. On top of that I hate winter, everything here has been covered in ice for a month. If the women here aren't Amazons then they're beached whales.

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Are you home for good, Ted?  Could you come back to China?

 

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Stay home, no. I off next week to Philippines and China for a month. I'm going to check out real estate in Philippines and give the place a better look. I liked China immediately, Philippines not so much, but the weather is great. The country has everything, volcanos, earthquakes, typhoons, terrorists and I'm sure I can still find a tribe of head hunters. The women are friendly.  I'm trying to sell my hotrods now, thinking of selling all my stuff and house,,maybe, maybe.

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I'm missing the Middle Kingdom something awful. cool

 

I think I judged people too harshly last time since I was mostly depressed...  life isn't so fun when you're bummed the hell out.

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CHEER UP, Mr. Hulk........ as you know.... raising that wonderful offspring in USA is probably better than here (china) .......who knows... maybe a few years down the road you will again be given the opportunity to live in this CHEAP vast land

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Perhaps! heart

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Been to Sweden, Germany and Canada before coming to China. I count all those countries with a possibility of home, but not China. I rather prefer my own home country Nepal if I have to give a final shot as a home but not here. I have already made up my mind after 3 years of experiences, this country will never be my home and I will never make it my home. I simply know that beside China, USA too is never going to be my home. Though I have a possibility to be a professor here (already associate prof.), I am saying to myself, it is enough for me here. Next destination Africa, may be?

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I think it is great to see the world, before settling....  travel is, in my opinion, the greatest education one can get.

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Sometimes I think of China as home, and then other times I want to get out as quickly as possible, depends on the day. But also I think I'm ready to try living somewhere else. Maybe South east asia. What to start learning another language. But I'm definitely not ready to head back to Britain for any prolonged period of time. 

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