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Q: information about Wuxi! Which place is better wuxi or qingdao?

How good is WUXI? Which one should i consider for living and for working? Wuxi or Qingdao?

12 years 10 weeks ago in  General  - China

 
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I am personally familiar with both.

Let's start with the weather ... winter is much milder in Wuxi than in Qingdao and it is much shorter than in Qingdao.  Very often in winter in Wuxi it will be cold in the morning and relatively warmer in the afternoon.  Qingdao can be downright miserable in winter.  Spring comes to Wuxi at the beginning of March and things become green; in Qingdao, spring comes maybe 3 weeks later.  Summer are hot and humid in both places, but more humid in  Qingdao because of the ocean.

That being said, Qingdao is a far prettier city. Wuxi is a relatively very prosperous city but it is a suburban blob of a city.  It is has no feel to it at all -- everything is so new, so modern, etc, etc.  Being in Wuxi is like living in a nice upper middle-class American suburb.  Cleaner than most Chinese cities and so, so proper and a little boring.

Qingdao is also clean but it has history to it and the city fathers have done a really good job of blending it all together.  For a city its size, it has a good public transport system; in Wuxi I had to rely upon taxis all the time if I wanted to get around effectively.  There are buses in Wuxi, nice, new buses, but they run mainly during the rush hours.  The public transport system in Qingdao is also good.

Cost of living -- Qingdao is probably less expensive than Wuxi by about 10 - 15% if not more.  Both have a great deal of amenities for foreigners, that is a fact. 

In terms of spoken Chinese, Qingdao dialect is not very different from Beijing Chinese.  There is a local dialect but it is not atrociously removed from Mandarain.  Wuxi dialect belongs to the Shanghai Wu family of Chinese and it is considered a distinct member of the Chinese language tree.  It is practically unintelligible to a person from Beijing.  The locals all, or at least most of them, do speak standard Chinese these days.

In the end, in my opinion, if you want to enjoy China, feel history, see the sea at your feet in the morning, and have a good quality of life, I would go to Qingdao.  If you want suburban comfort, everything rather perfect, a little bland, then I would go to Wuxi.

It depends upon one's tastes. 

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