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Q: What is the best thing about China?
Please, let's be positive here for just a minute, people!
The food one day you can have xinjiang food the next you can have yunan food always a good selection.
Being a history buff the long history is great to learn.
Great topic MissA!!!!
For me it is the history. my Bachelor's degree was in History and Comparative Theology so for me, China is a great place to be able to explore both.
I also very much enjoy the friendliness of the people here, both Chinese and Foreign.
I love the different kinds of musical instruments, many of which are so unlike those we have in the West.
I love the variety of local costumes of the different ethnic and minority groups in China, and the particular foods that each group may have.
But most of all, I love the friends I have made here, the fact that i can make a comfortable living without having to spend 70+ hours in the office every day. That I usually wake up looking forward to my day rather than dreading the office.
As my Chinese students and friends would say "Happy everyday" to all!
Like GuilinRaf said, not having to slave to live a good life... and be able to enjoy it whiel you're doing it.
But, that's not really a facet of 'China', just a part of economic reality for now.
Food and nature (hills, streams, forests) are probably my 2 picks.
Also, the eye-candy can be nice.
And, the history (the older history..)
Shining-brow brought up a good point: eye candy. There are a lot of good looking guys at this college. I recently went to Hangzhou, and didn't see half as many. What's with that? Is it because this is a college rather than a university, so they care more about their looks? They try to be fashionable, get their hair done, it's so different compared to back home. Of course, for most of them, especially my students, I just want to pinch their cheeks like an old auntie because of how immature they are.
Second to that would probably be the scenery. There are a lot of plants. This college is very close to a mountain, about 15 minutes to walk to the base of it. There's also a big lake or river, only a 15 minute bus ride away, approximately. Any time I take a walk into the city, it's like an adventure. I tend to take long walks alone.
Of course working less hours for good money is also a huge plus. I like the fact that I have the weekend off, and also Wednesdays this semester. I like going to bed late so I can talk to friends online, maybe do some laundry before lunch. Several things have changed this semester, and there is a lot less stress because of it, so I'm much happier now.
1. Nice wide straight expressway
2. Kindness of people - foreigners get VIP treatment everywhere
3. Cheap! With our salary we could afford any restaurant. Could eat out everyday.
4. Much safer place to be compared to europe/usa - no guns, never seen gangwar (in news yes - but not that common)
5. Women could walk outside late night alone safe.
6. Easy to find gf (not my case now - i am married - dont get angry with me for revealing this true fact)
7. Many tourist locations in same country - wide veriety - sanya/harbin/huangshan/xian etc etc
8. Plenty variety of fruits vegetables available in supermarkets - tropical-winter fruits all from same country.
9. Youku streaming full length movies
7. Well developed internet shopping system - can get literally anything.
etc etc etc 
just the life style here . the students. traveling. i feel freer here becoz i dont have to deal with all bs from back home. racist cops, gang banger drug addicts etc
the banking system!! seriously! i dont know abt other countries but i find it extremely client friendly
subhash.sah:
Are you sure you are talking about the same china you are in?
crimochina:
maybe the banking sucks in his home country much worse than in china , he may not be from a western country. but i still gave you thumbs down, the banking here sucks!!!
Life is easy here. After an easy day of work and all day of getting ripped off at the vendors I don't mind the hassle at all. If I am having a bad day because i got cheated or someone cut in front of me in the line or someone shoved me or a vendor ripped me off, I just have to go outside and look at their faces and think "stupid (insert your choice of curse word), rip me off as much as you want. At the end of the day you are the one who pays my more than 100 kuai an hour just to talk in a language i don't have to sweat to come up with a million and one idea." And just like that my day is so much brighter. I love China. I love the way they help us make an easy living.
I'm 6'3 and kind of scrawny. Here I'm like Andre the Giant.
I love when this type of question is brought up. It's nice to hear the positives, as a reminder as why you have chosen to be there, and why some of us not there yet should still come. The negatives, the ventings, are good too, but it's easy to get the neg perspectives.
I'm looking forward to the change of environment. And the unfamiliar faces, and new ways of doing old things, and the market shopping (not having to go to the grocery store or the mall for everything). And the food, the different flavors and experiences. And simple, uncluttered living (my house is full of 40 years of my own crap and another 100 years of crap I've inherited), and a feeling of safety that I can't get here. Learning a new language by immersion and a new culture and old architecture mixed in with new, and the tea. And while I am there, I am going to enjoy the hell out of the pandas.
What are you finding positive, MissA? It sounds like your having a BCP (Bad China Period) and are looking for the encouragement. So tell us why you went, what you looked forward to, and what you enjoyed once you got there.
MissA:
I came here for the experience of China, and to see for myself the country I'd heard so much about. I hoped, and am hoping, that living here will give me the chance to travel extensively. Also, it made a lot of financial sense at the time I moved here The one best thing about being here is probably the food; it is really amazing where I live. Then, as others have said, the ability to live comfortably and still save money is a major bonus. Also, (a dubious blessing for the last two weeks, granted) is the chance to actually experience the reality of China, which I'd heard and read so much about. Altogether, these are pretty major positives, but it's easy to forget them some days. Thanks for the kind words, HugaP :)
I love the great food for cheap, the cheap beer and smokes, and the oodles of beautiful women everywhere that keep me distracted from all the other crap....sometimes even from my gf 
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But most of all I love being treated like a rockstar almost everywhere I go....it can be easy to let it go to your head, but I do my best to stay humble, and at the same time enjoy the preferential treatment when I can get it.
