china and canada
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I'm from canada, but I've been to china a few times. I totaly enjoyed the trip. The people the food, the realy old buildings. Where I went was inner china Hefei, it's a good sized city with alot of working in and around it. If you like spicey food I recomend it. Hospitality is great. Only Down side I can say about china was the washrooms (I'm too used to western style seats). and some buildings needed up keep. Seeing that many people makes me want to see New york next :D Canada; I live In Alberta, gets pretty cold. Alot of good festivals in the summer. Lots to see and do in the city. we have lakes mountains, forrests, plains. Rabbits and Coyotes ( the odd one due to all the rabbits) running around in the city from time to time. Only thing I'd change would be the flipflop government, but that can wait till next election.
///////////////// Groucho Marx Those are my principals, if you don't like them… I have others.
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I'm from canada, but I've been to china a few times. I totaly enjoyed the trip. The people the food, the realy old buildings. Where I went was inner china Hefei, it's a good sized city with alot of working in and around it. If you like spicey food I recomend it. Hospitality is great. Only Down side I can say about china was the washrooms (I'm too used to western style seats). and some buildings needed up keep. Seeing that many people makes me want to see New york next :D Canada; I live In Alberta, gets pretty cold. Alot of good festivals in the summer. Lots to see and do in the city. we have lakes mountains, forrests, plains. Rabbits and Coyotes ( the odd one due to all the rabbits) running around in the city from time to time. Only thing I'd change would be the flipflop government, but that can wait till next election.
///////////////// Groucho Marx Those are my principals, if you don't like them… I have others.
I'm from Calgary... Lived there all my life, until 3 years ago. I had visited China a few times before on business, and was amazed at so many things. I really enjoyed my trips to China. Then I had the opportunity to work long term in Chongqing. Visiting, and living in China are two completely different things. It's really interesting, to see the vast difference between the poor (and I mean dirt poor, living in filth, the likes I had never seen before), and the middle to upper middle class (who can afford to drive cars, costing at least the same amount we'd pay, paying for gasoline, near the same price as we'd pay, etc), and they are situated almost as nieghbours. I've heard in the rural areas, the standard of living is extremely low, such as no gas, no electricity, but I haven't seen that first had, yet. The difference in the mentality between China and the West if fairly phenomenal. You see the buildings which look unmaintained, and that seems to be the norm here. I don't understand it myself. Most people here concerned with saving money, so the buy the cheapest things, and don't pay to maintain them. I've seen buildings which are ten years old, look worse near 100 year old building I've seen in Canada, let along the several hundred year old buildings I've seen in other parts of the world. I'm an electrical engineer, educated and trained in Canada, so I could really get on a soap-box rant about some of the engineering practices I see here, but I'll leave that alone I married a local woman a year ago, and the cultural differences certainly can make life interesting. She does agree with many of my observations about the society here, and does offer some helpful insight to deal with situations. We're going to have a daughter in December, and the differences and similarities in what each of us wants for the baby are interesting... She wants a nanny to take care of the young lass full time, where as I think we should be doing that. At least, she agrees with me that, the baby WILL use diapers, and be toilette trained like children are in the West, rather than, as I see everyday, toddlers with slits in their pants in so they can deficate or urinate on the sidewalk, instead of using a diaper, or holding it until they can get to a bathroom. Hopefully by the time the child is old enough to start being influenced by friends, we'll be back in Canada anyways. Those toilets you referred to, took me a while to actually use. Painful at first, because for me, squatting is not a natural position anymore, b