Beijing - Post Report Question and Answers

If you move here, you can leave behind your:

Wish for privacy, need to see the stars, love of fresh air. - Nov 2021


Masks! COVID started here but no one wears a mask because of massive testing and lockdowns. - Nov 2020


Privacy. Sense of entitlement. Sense of social justice. - Aug 2020


Electronics that you plan to use after leaving China. - Jul 2020


Facebook account - May 2020


Car. - Nov 2019


Stereotype of China. - Oct 2017


Expensive electronics (you'll want to toss them after your time here) - Dec 2015


Computers - but then again, who can live without his computer anymore. - Aug 2014


Expectations of any type of warm, tropical Asian climate. Although it does get hot here, this definitely isn't the tropics. - Jul 2014


sunblock - Jun 2013


Sense of order, fairness, and logic. Expectations of good will or customer service. - Aug 2011


...expectations of traffic rules, propriety, and preference for uncrowded places. - Jan 2011


fondness for people who wait in lines and behave rationally behind the wheel of a car. - Apr 2010


Clean lungs and books on Tibet. - Jan 2010


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