Shenyang - Post Report Question and Answers
What do you wish you had known about this particular city/country before moving there?
It's a lot harder to live here compared to Beijing, Shanghai, or Guangzhou because it's not international. I wish I didn't compare it to the other big cities as much. - Jun 2024
Just how isolated we would be. - Mar 2019
A large staff is not the same thing as a competent staff. The fact that a company/restaurant/office is well-staffed doesn't mean that anyone knows what they are doing. Labor is cheap here, there are too many people and all of them need jobs, so a common way to address a problem is to throw people at it. I have literally had five people in my apartment to change a battery in the smoke detector. In the end, they were unable to change the battery, because it takes 9-volt batteries, which are not available in China. - Jul 2016
How nice the summers can be if the air quality isn't too bad. - Aug 2014
Just that feeling that you are in a sea of Chinese people. It can make you feel lonely. Lack of English in many many places. Culture shock. - Nov 2013
