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A little for context for this discussion: There is a lot of wealth here. A few days ago I was introduced to my gf's family for the first time. I went for a walk in their neighborhood and saw an area of private villas all of which were valued in the 20-40 million RMB range. Yuan=RMB=RenMinBi...

SoftBank even sponsors a slowpitch softball team in Guilin, Guangxi, China. They are everywhere!

...and to add one more data point to the context of this mess.....Yesterday I received an invoice from a collection company demanding payment for a radiology bill I paid in full on June 8 this year. I believe that a lot of the healthcare mess in the U.S. is just simply intentional fraud...

She did already say she wouldn't be living in the White House this time around.

Thousands of light years? Really? H.G. Wells told us 129 years ago they were from Mars. Do some reading why don't you! :biggreen:

All the ORA EV I see here are either pink or pea soup green. Otherwise than colors, they are nice looking little cars.

I have said that most things are much cheaper here but your initial post was "orders of magnitude" too much cheaper. But in proportion to incomes, many things including housing are far more expensive incomes..... edited to fix a redundancy

There won't be any need for schools or teachers. Kids will just get every piece of information programmed into their heads instantly at birth. (or even during gestation)

Goalposts moving.......I didn't say things weren't a lot cheaper here. I said they aren't nearly as cheap as you claimed. The average household income in this city of comparable size to NY is $825usd per month. The average apartment costs $150,000usd. You do the math. Entire extended...

Exaggerate much? Your numbers are a couple of decades out of date. Even a shopping cart full of lettuce, although much cheaper than in the US, would be considerably more than that. I just checked the average cost of a small apartment in a small city about 3 hours from here (agricultural area)...

But that would still need to be adjusted for typical driving patterns. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of Chinese driving is urban. Intra-urban has the vastly popular high-speed rail. In the U.S. I typically drove about 36,000 miles per year with lots of rural driving. Here I have a license...

Being a moderate doesn't automatically suggest that the person has compromised on any given position. It is more common that person's chosen position just happens to be somewhere between the extremes of left and right. Only those on the extremes of either side are being asked to accept any...

One problem in the world is individuals not understanding themselves very well. Too many people wear the blinders that come from believing they are normal and most people are like them. No. There are many unselfish people in the world who like living out of the spotlight don't aspire to wealth...

Except the wet markets here are immensely larger with a much larger variety of produce and meats/seafood here in China and Hong Kong. And yes, the prices are mostly very cheap.

Yes. The wet markets took a blow because of COVID but they are running strong now. In addition to a large wet market right across the street there are currently 3 other fresh fruit/vegetable markets within 100m of my apartment building. Plus a BBQ street to grab a quick meal just 50m away and...

One of the things I enjoy about living in China--there's always several supermarkets within a 5 minute walk of home. The bad is that it seems like every time I find something I like and start buying often, it always disappears from the shelves! :p

I think he means "BLEEP".

This is a confession, not a manifesto.

And none of the examples I offered suffer from language differences. Somewhere along the line English speaking countries just decided to change the way they refer to places elsewhere out of basic respect. But why only these? Certainly it isn't because English lacks an easy way to type certain...

For the same reasons that Formosa (Taiwan), Siam (Thailand), Burma (Myanmar), Peking (Beijing), Canton (Guangzhou), etc., etc. have all disappeared since my school days. I've always wondered why we don't have a lot more examples of this such as the aforementioned "Deutschland". I think it's...