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Q: What is the longest time you have stayed in China?
(Without going back home)
Wow, I can't match Rob or Sino! I've lived in Guangzhou 6 years now. I get back to the UK about once every 1.5 years. GZ is now home. Do I miss the UK? No! I miss family and close friends sometimes but can chat on the phone and keep up using Facebook.
Hotwater:
Getting anywhere outside China can refresh you! I get out at least 2-3 times a year. Thailand, Bali (one of my favourite chill out places), Vietnam, etc. At spring festival I normally do a big holiday with my Chinese wife. This year was England, Wales & Italy. Next February will be Amsterdam & Andalucia in Spain.
3 years. I try and go back every 2 years but sometimes I don't have the time.
j89:
2 years! So , u know how to manage staying here without missing your family and friends! right?
17 years
Sinobear:
Without going back home ("home is where your heart is"...my wife and children are here).
dongbeiren:
Wow! Does it get annoying when locals treat you like an outsider and keep asking how long you've been here and when you're leaving?
Sinobear:
It gets annoying when I've been teaching for 17 years in China, all over China, and a Chinese colleague who's never left their hometown and graduated from university only two years ago tells me, "In China..."
j89:
@Sinobear
i agree with u, " your home is where your heart is "
u have your own family here , that's great!
Without going back home 2 years.
Without exiting at all (travel) 9 months.
I would turn insane if it wasn't for these.
Wow, I can't match Rob or Sino! I've lived in Guangzhou 6 years now. I get back to the UK about once every 1.5 years. GZ is now home. Do I miss the UK? No! I miss family and close friends sometimes but can chat on the phone and keep up using Facebook.
Hotwater:
Getting anywhere outside China can refresh you! I get out at least 2-3 times a year. Thailand, Bali (one of my favourite chill out places), Vietnam, etc. At spring festival I normally do a big holiday with my Chinese wife. This year was England, Wales & Italy. Next February will be Amsterdam & Andalucia in Spain.
33 months w/o leaving the country. I was going stir crazy at that point. Good on Sino and RR-that takes some intestinal fortitude.
j89:
I know exactly how it feels when you stay away from your own country more than 2 years!
currently this is my longest stay 7 months usually i go home every 6 months but dec,6 th ill be on my way
It will be 32 years in the next month.Don't ask me how I manage to do it.
I stayed 14 months at the very longest without going home. I took regular sanity breaks in countries surrounding China all the time, though.
