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Q: Your local mainlanders - average, above average, below average?
I've been keeping an eye on things, and I'm estimating that in the area I live (to and from the city) that there's around an 80% chance that an elderly person will have to go past about 8-12 younger and fitter people before one of them will offer up a seat to them on a bus. Most of them will engage themselves in conversation with their friend sitting next to them, face down in the phone, or staring out the window... all while an elderly person (who may be having some difficulty) will be hanging on tightly right next to them.
I live in a university side of town, so by 'younger and fitter', I'm mainly referring to the 18-24 year old age group although there are of course the mid-late 20's and 30's.
Oddly, there seems to be a higher chance for one of these people to stand up for a young kid than for an elderly person!! (although, they still have to go past nearly 20 people for this)
The percentages aren't so bad on the metro (for some reason..!)
How do the locals in your area stack up?
(FTR, I sit at the back of the bus - usually around first on, last off)
(and, please, no comments from the "why catch a bus?" people...)
I live in Tianjin so the women turn into shaved gorillas when they get to a certain age. If someone didn't move for them they would throw the person out of the seat. The men are mostly killed by their wives so you don't see many old men.
Guangzhou is getting better than it was.
I normally just stand on the bus or metro because I would just be offering my seat anyway with the amount of pregnant women there are here.
I live in Tianjin so the women turn into shaved gorillas when they get to a certain age. If someone didn't move for them they would throw the person out of the seat. The men are mostly killed by their wives so you don't see many old men.
Foshan here, people usually give their seat to the elderly, pregnant women and young kids. It isn't a very crowded city anyway so the MTR and the buses usually feel relatively empty compared to Guangzhou and other big cities. Also we don't have the hordes of uneducated/greedy/selfish migrants here, they tend to go to nearby Guangzhou, more work for them there.
I can say a lot of positive things about Chengduren when compared to other Chinese citizens, but only if we are not taking transport. If we are talking transport, they are peasants to the core. It is like the zombie apocalypse--people here are more likely to knock old ladies to the ground in the mad rush to be FIRST, FIRST, FIRST! on the bus than they are to give up a seat to them. I've seen it happen.
Eorthisio:
I lived on Chengdu for a year and half, loved it, Sichuan has a "last frontier" feel compared to the rest of China.
RachelDiD:
<p>I like Chengdu a lot, as long as I am not doing business with the people or using the public transport. Other than that, it is a cool town, for China. It loses more of the 'last frontier' feel every year, though. I think Kunming is becoming 3 days 17 hours agoReport Abuse the next last frontier. </p>
I avoid public transport like the plague. Public transport being the best place to get the plague.
Give Chinese people more time, they are learning and becoming better and better, but with a good growing market rising so fast and lots of opportunity along with it take time to adjust to and needs more time to mature with it. They're still 20 years behind in the area.
You mean how are my average locals...
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...on average?
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