RE: Huaxi's Great Wall / Große Mauer
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I have driven out to Huaxi but I didn't actually go to the wall attraction. I just went there to drive around and see what was there. I was underwhelmed. There is a deep, darker economic story to that actual area and it's claim to being the wealthiest village in china.
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Yep. As in most cases of extreme wealth in China.
Where in China are you based out of?
Not in China anymore. Lived in Shaoguan, Ningbo, Huashi, Guangzhou, Beijing, Siping (Jilin) & Hefei. Emperor Xi drove me out in 2017.
I ask, because Huaxicun is about an hour and a half's drive from where I currently live. I think I have about two years of China left in me.
Can't really see how anyone would want to live in China under current conditions. Maybe if you are totally unpolitical & don't care about all this Covid nonsense, but for me, a return is only viable after emperor Xi left the scene.
I have been here since 2014, and I am not an engineer with the high salary that comes with that being that style of expat of china. I am a university teacher with two masters degrees in English. Once covid hit, leaving the country had become monetarily harder in how much just a plane ticket began to cost. Plus, there's the issue of actually lining up employment elsewhere. I left america because having a PhD in English, at the time, only gave you a 40% chance of being hired full time in higher education. Not everybody can just pick up and leave China on a whim. I do plan on leaving, but it's likely going to take me two years to organize my exit. As for this "covid nonsense," I just contracted it and got over it, thank you very much.
A bit sensitive, are we?
Don't know where you get that engineer stuff from. You don't need to be an engineer to be able to save money in China. & if you have 2 master degrees, it should actually be fairly easy to find a job somewhere else, like eg. Taiwan or Vietnam. Of course, after Covid hit that wouldn't have been possible for a while.
& if you don't think that emperor Xi's Covid policies are nonsense, well, good on you. Then you have nothing to complain about.