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Q: Outside of China, what's the first thing you see that says, "I'm not in China anymore" to you?
For me, it is when I get off the plane and visit the bathroom and don't see puddles of piss by the urinals.
Ja Ja, when I can enter a restaurant and order a 2 inches thick prime roast beef midium rare, and get what I order. At that moment my mind clicks the thought "I am not in China any longer"
Children sitting is child seats in the backseat of the car, not standing or sitting on mom's lap in the front seat.
Police cars with actual cops in them, not the cop's brother and his family.
Fresh crisp clean air. Each time I step off the plane at YVR, that is what stuck me the most.
When someone keeps the door open for you when your going in ,leaving a shop
The first thing I notice on the way home from the airport is how 99.9% of the people are actually staying in their lanes in traffic, or at a stop light, where two lanes don't automatically become 5 lanes.
At the airports back home they have smoke pits or smoke rooms...I don't think they have that anywhere in China. 
paulmartin:
They dont in Europe,and in Beijing Airport they have smoke rooms
Whe i step in a dog sh-t and it is from a dog not a person...
Localla:
Don't you guys think every questions here recently got polluted so much and so quickly, as long as this fish showed up.........
Does he not understand ppl talk shits much often than real shits.......Who is shit now?....Fish79 and Rich45...both racist, not dare to show it clear......
Why the hell do they make a life here if it's profoundly sick society?....really....Can't ppl find a meaning of their life "here and there"?....why not just go back home? ...really....
I do feel deep ashamed by ppl like him....they are the real creepy ppl polluting the entire foreigners groups here in China...
fish79:
If I ever need a brain transplant, I'd choose yours because I'd want a brain that had never been used.
Localla:
fish79, it'd be your dream..ppl here actually listen to you....nor believe a dime word from you....guess you are too old and too lonely .....sorry for your life here and there... None one is wu mao, and wumao is exist in rumor (if they do exist, you give yourself too much credits to get their notice of you...i dont think you have ever had credit in your whole life...... ......your lonely words get old and the dumbest........
TedDBayer:
hey Localla, lighten up, it's our way to joke, tease or make fun of everything. Rather than just say something is bad, we turn it into joke and make fun of it. You just don't understand. Try to understand sarcasm.
After my first couple years in China, I visited Canada. On my first day back, I was walking down the street and some woman I hadn't noticed said "sorry" and I wasn't even sure why. After two years in assholia I forgot people don't just bulldoze at each other and scream "HALLU" in most countries.
First time back after a long stay here... I'd see people from a distance and be convinced that it was somebody I knew until they got closer. It happened enough it started to freak me out... my only thought was "Damnit the Chinese were right, we do all look the same."
The true sign of civilization, is another Tim Hortins one large coffee away from the last one.
When I get home sit down on my couch, crack an ice cold Kokanee and turn on the Canucks game. Then I forget I was even in China 15 hours before that.
bengyap:
Hehehe ... Canucks is 4-1 up against the Ducks now. Go-Canucks-Go!
People using trash cans instead of throwing garbage on the street
The first thing that really hit me in China was OMG everyone is Chinese, that sounds rational, but experiencing it is really different.
I wasn't gone long, but the first thing I noticed when I got home was how fat everyone is. It was like I never noticed it before.
I haven't done that yet, but I think it will be seeing so many non-Asians in the same place, the signs being in English, and of course, seeing my family.
Hearing all the people around you, in your local accent, understanding what they say!
Spitting, crowded unsafe buses, drivers ignoring all traffic signs and zebra crossing, hygenic hospitals, no kids on the front of a bike, dirty food houses looking over your shoulder and being nosey,starring at you, smoking in food houses ignoring the NO Smoking sign.......the list is endless...........
"CAUTION WET FLOOR; slip down carefully'',I did'nt see this inside toilet that convinced me im not in China anymore lol. no kiddin i saw this in Harbin airport when i first came to China.
Seeing working class people (i.e. in the airport) hating their jobs and moaning about it.
Whereas in China, those guys are totally thankful they have some sort of employment, and often have smiles on their faces.
WHENEVER I AM OUTSIDE CHINA; I THINK WHY EVERY ONE IS SO FAT.
CHINESE PEOPLE LOOK SO SLIM AND FIT....MOST OF THEM
Mr_spoon:
Yeah, and there's no way in hell you're a raging local, right?
GuilinRaf:
Slim and fit?? Only the ladies! For men, China is "POt-belly Heaven"!
When dealing with a problem and figuring out a creative way to overcome it if no one tells me " 没办法 Meibanfa" then I know I am no longer in China. In the West every problem has a solution and there is something called "Logic"
Gotta love China! Fall in line................
When I go home and see all of the "for sale" sales and "in foreclosure" signs on miles and miles of houses, sometimes entire estates, particulary in southern California and in Nevada.
Parts of Florida looked just totally abandoned...it's like this is 1933 all over again.
That was my recent impression.
