cracker_jack_798 1 year ago • 100%
i already sunk too much into moving to the inland empire (massive mistake) if had to give that up and start over AGAIN i would rather just do it in china where it's cheap, east, and there is a built in social network for expats
cracker_jack_798 1 year ago • 100%
good to be an island nation in a pandemic
i hope this place takes off, reddit sucks and has for a while, it just has a critical mass of users so as a forum it works well. but i digress. If this place takes off, it would be cool if the china community here isn't an anti-china circle-jerk like subreddit. that was getting pretty exhausting seeing burnt out expats delighting themselves at any misery experienced in china. /r/china and /r/sino were basically just two sides of the same jaded, acidic coin. it would be pretty cool if we had actual mainland chinese people here, if we talked about living and working in china, interesting places to visit, social and economic news, and whats going on with the government with a bit more clear headed sobriety. i can't do another DAE hate Winnie the poo circle jerk post. or maybe im the one being annoying and pretentious, it would just be cool to have a place online about china that doesn't actively hate the country itself
cracker_jack_798 1 year ago • 100%
dude COVID was such a pain in the ass in china, i came back at the end of it after it was pretty much over in america, so i dont know what it was like here, but in china it was pretty annoying. luckily i lived in shenzhen though, so it wasn't that bad, just, really annoying
cracker_jack_798 1 year ago • 50%
yeah, thats the dilemma. although, i will say, after spending the last 6 months east of LA in the inland empire, its just as much of a hole as china is, as shitty as with worst parts of dongguan, except minus the public transportation and a lot more homeless and violent crime. It just is what it is.
China is convenient, but the constant threat that the government could one day take you away and lock you up in a light without so much as letting you know why is always looming
cracker_jack_798 1 year ago • 100%
WFH is not an option for me at my current company, even though i just shit around an excel and various adobe apps. I need to be in the warehouse about 15% of the time but they want me in this warehouse on a computer 100% of the time. and i spent a LOT of money relocating thinking that this salary is massive and i'll make the money back easily.
cracker_jack_798 1 year ago • 100%
exactly. i was there, it was very annoying and kind of scary. But ah, i do miss the easy life
cracker_jack_798 1 year ago • 100%
oh for sure the government gets in my way less. i only have to deal with them a few times a year for visa, banking, and when i enter/exit the country, but they do scare the heck out of me
welp fellas, after working shitty corporate jobs in America, making well above the nation and local average, i somehow have less money than i did working bullshit jobs in china. Life here kind of sucks, and while there are many beautiful places in America, i don't get to see them because im stuck at this shitty job all the time. I don't even see my family any more than i would if i lived in China. So. I have a walk on spot at an easy breezy university job, what do you think? Go back to china and live the easy life, but have to deal with their pain in the ass government, or stay in america and live a safer life, but have to deal with my pain in the ass job.