For those in China, what's it really like over there?

Question

um...."For those in China"

Answer 1

huge cities

many people

fast development

daily efforts

ancient traditions

family values

wushu and calligraphy

miraculous

Answer 2

It depends on where you go.

The cities are becoming very modern simply down to the fact well they have started to modernize there cities in the last 10 years so very thing looks new.

Rural areas can be the pits, flies all over the places and some don't have running water. Toilets are basally holes dug in the ground with four walls. People are more friendly,  being a non-Chinese person in a rural area you will make traffic stop.

Answer 3

You get tired of eating Chineese food all the time

Answer 4

China is a beautiful country and there are thousands of expatriates (mostly from the West) really enjoying life here. Yup, I've been a China expat since 2003 - there's no other place I want to be! I love China, Chinese culture and grateful to the government for maintaining peace and harmony all these years for the huge majority of the Chinese people. Wonderful country, wonderful people!  

Answer 5

i am not sure that weather the age problem is really true

but i Wonder if you could come to China , and you can get the answers yourself.

i am a chinese girl, and i am here since i born-ed, i think our country is getting better and better,  our government, now, i think, mostly they are honest, i love the leaders, in the recently earthquake, they tried their best to save the people.

i know our government system has some problem, but we want to communicate with the developed countries.

so welcome to China

Answer 6

Well it seems the government lies a lot, about little things like age.

Its silly they would cheat like that for the Olympic games, that would mean nothing if they win.

Answer 7

The U.S.A media/news lies about china in many ways. First  of all, the smog is the same amount or less than the smog in L.A or Sanfrancisco!

Second, we do not like to eat scorpians/cat guts/or other c**p americans say we eat. We eat chinese food, no nasty stuff! America and mexico has bugs to eat as well, their just not reporting it! And it's crowded in beijing.  

Answer 8

the people are friendly and helpful, and are honored to invite foreign guests into their homes - i visited a Chinese friends rural home village recently and was treated like a celebrity. You cant really answer the asked question, China is like 100 countries in one. Urumqi is like an Arab city, Shanghai and Shenzhen are as modern as any city in the world. China is cheap - a 30 km taxi ride costs me 5 euro (dearer in the big eastern cities) - i stayed in a decent hotel in Shenzhen (An expensive city) recently for 17 euro a night. The metro there was 20 - 50 cent. I can eat well for 1 euro, you can eat out for 30 cent, but you can also find any type of other cuisine in the big cities - more expensive - I had an indian meal for 2 with beer costing 10 euro.  The smaller cities can be dirty, and if your not used to it the spitting, beeping, children going potty in the street can be off-putting to say the least. I feel safe wherever i go, but in all the bigger cities there are con artists desperate to separate you and your money 0 however with a little experience they are easy to spot and avoid.

The people are mostly happy and content and approve of their government, and at least they don't have to waste their time money and effort on a prentece of democracy such as exists in America. There are problem areas, tibet being best known but no country is perfect (Gitmo anybody???).

By and large it is a good place to live, and i would choose it over many western countries i have experienced

Answer 9

I believe you said "those in China"? And not those who believe the media lies about china?

China has a democratic semi presidential representative system of Government, new communism blended with capitalism and democracy but no one in the western world seems to know that,

They all believe Chairman Mao is still alive and China is a dictatorship.

They also believe everyone is starving, wearing Mao suits and using child labour.

Education is highly valued in China, something western countries could benefit from.  The chinese people emerged from years of oppression and occupation and the horror of the Mao years as a strong, cohesive, kind, community minded, hospitable people.

Unlike some other countries who had similar experiences, Russia being one.

The cities are very modern and cosmopolitain, you can shop at Dior, Armanis, and all the top and most expensive designers in the world have shops and factories there.

There is a positive happy energy to China, its very colourful and very noisy, but its a happy noise.  Everyday feels like a carnival in Northern cities like Dalian and Kaifaqu.

The cost of living is very cheap, you can live very well over there if you are working for a western company or school and being paid the same wages you would receive in your home country.

There are flowers everywhere, art, statues, beautiful parks, and great restaurants, also McDonalds, Walmart, Pizza Hut, KFC, Starbucks etc.

You can get any kind of food you want and you dont have to eat "Chinese food" which is not like the Chinese food in western countries which isnt real Chinese food at all !!

There are very poor areas, there is poverty just as there is in western countries, there are people who are not happy that some people are rich and they are poor, just like in western countries.

There are fantastic modern medical facilities in most cities - more advanced then those is some Western countries, such as Canada.

No one is afraid of the police and pretty much ignore them. The police do not arrest or harass people for no reason, I have seen them break up fights, pat the combatants on their back and send them on their way.  You have to be engaged in SERIOUS crime to run afoul of the police in China, drugs, human trafficking, robbery etc

The sand blowing in from the Gobi desert is the "pollution" the media is photographing in Beijing.

The Chinese children are loved and valued and treated like little Princes and Princesses,

I have seen four beggars in three years in China. One was a drunk woman with a child, two were orphaned children being exploited by their uncle and one was a crippled up old women, I assume she is a peasant.

China has very good even excellent social programs and benefits for workers who become disabled at work, old age pensions, free housing and free food stores for the poor,.

The "peasants" as the farmers in Canada do not have these programs, they plow their fields with horse or oxen still in Northern China. Some people still travel into the cities with a horse drawn cart.

China can be very contradictory, beautiful high rises, designer shops and boutiqes and women washing their clothes in canals.  

China has not allowed technology to displace workers and things like sewer systems etc are still often dug by hand, most workers, whether ditch digger or Chinese teachers earn about the same amount of money so the Chinese say there is no such thing as a dishonourable job or occupation.

The wages earned and the relative buying power is pretty much on par with minimum wages and buying power in countries like Canada.

The Chinese live in much smaller apartments then we are used to in western countries.  The principal source of power is coal so winters can see a nasty increase in pollution --

Most westerners over there love it ! Many try to leave and then find out that China is calling them back again - the Chinese people are happy. And so am I when I am in China.

The children are just adorable, most people want to learn English and a huge percentage of students go overseas to University though China has some great Universities of its own

China has never moved aggressively against a neighbouring country, Taiwan and Tibet are legally part of China. Canada squashed the PLQ when Quebec wanted to separate. So China is pretty much like every other country in the world, except for the positive, happy energy and the wonderfully kind hospitable friendly people

But most of all - China is what you make it --

enough?

Answer 10

A beautiful country that is a  must go! ..go for it.