I'm moving to China

[WonderSeeker]

This is probably niche for this forum. But in 2 months I'll be moving to Chengdu 成都

Is there anybody on the forum who has lived in China before or is currently living in China?

For those who haven't, living abroad is a great opportunity if you're:

• young,
• open-minded,
• want to flip the bird to corporate,
• tired of watching your country deteriorate,
• ready to get your pre-programmed cultural paradigms shattered without trying,
• eager to live somewhere that's on the rise, and already 30 years into the future.

For me I've been living and teaching English in Korea for the past year. It's been an epic experience, but after doing 50+ hours of deep research,  I decided on moving to China. After another 20 hours of militant outreaech, I landed a job there.

The best part is, this move is allowing to:

• make 2x my Korean salary starting out,
• live in an apartment that would easily cost $3,000/month in the US, but only $415 in China,
• have the opportunity to learn the 2nd most spoken language in the world straight from the source,
• experience more exotic dating opportunities (it's so fascinating experiencing how sexually and relationally different things are out here).

After doing lots of reasearch and experiencing things firsthand, I found that the US distorts reality when it comes to east Asia. It over-glorifies Korea and Japan (naturally because they are 2 of its major far east vassel states) and straight up demonizes China, acting like its a communist hell-hole.

Based on firsthand, Korea is highly uncultured and materialistic. I mean, there is a culture, but it is 100% trends and K-nonsense. I haven't been to China yet, but I've personally watched over a dozen videos of creators essentially saying, "yeah, it's not perfect like any place, but overall it has world-class convenience, it feels extremely safe, and the west's portrayal of it is total propaganda."

Again this is probably a niche post for this forum.

I've been in my own bubble of researching and making this my life, because I've had the best time living exotic lifestyles in my 20s. I've had the good fortune of spending over a month in Mongolia and Alaska, almost a full year in South Korea, and muliple years in several US states. All before age 30.

Nevertheless I'm putting this out there to see if any of you know about this opportunity. Cheers!

Edited 2 hours ago by WonderSeeker

[Natasha Tori Maru]

You are certainly living up to your name! 

Great wonder seeking - can't wait until you pop in with some insights after this trajectory change 😁

[LoneWonderer]

Hey, very cool my man. What kind of job will you do? Is it an english speaking workplace? How easy was it for you to aquire a work visa? I have considered moving to China in some future, just to do something totally different and a little crazy!