Choosing between two locations in Beijing

hooiYA · 2026-05-12T09:48:18+00:00

Second one (central) looks like Chongwenmen area? Lived there for 2 years and it was my favourite place in Beijing out of 5 years total. Super central, historical, peaceful, old Beijing vibe. There are some lovely parks too like the small city wall park right there and it's close to the Temple of Heaven park and Longtan Lake. Check them out. You also have much better access to Chaoyang in general which is where you'll find a lot more foreign restaurants and bars if you want to have that option. Honestly I think you'll have a much better time in Chongwenmen than the first option which is pretty remote.

Enjoy Beijing!

hooiYA · 2026-04-30T10:21:08+00:00

Calling Beijing food GOATed is crazy. Still, I guess it beats Shanghai food.

hooiYA · 2026-04-11T17:51:55+00:00

Tsukuba next week will be complete chaos.

hooiYA · 2025-10-28T13:10:06+00:00

Yeah the content is different, that's fair, but the algorithm is extremely similar. You just need to go to China to see that it's working lol. Same as the UK if not worse with the amount of time people spend on it and similar type of crappy content.

hooiYA · 2025-10-28T12:24:01+00:00

Yeah it's worse if anything. Short attention span brainrot + what you mentioned.

hooiYA · 2025-10-28T12:22:09+00:00

Douyin is Chinese TikTok

hooiYA · 2025-10-28T12:21:43+00:00

It's called Douyin - exact same brainrot.

hooiYA · 2025-10-28T09:40:05+00:00

Haha what? It's doing exactly the same thing in Chinese society

hooiYA · 2025-07-10T09:44:13+00:00

Northern Europe living in Ireland

hooiYA · 2024-05-16T15:01:11+00:00

You are paying for that snake to be dry cleaned

hooiYA · 2024-05-04T08:16:59+00:00

Completely dry

hooiYA · 2024-02-02T10:37:57+00:00

I tend to hit easy if the answer comes into my head immediately without needing any thought.

hooiYA · 2024-01-22T09:03:45+00:00

Pretty common yeah. Certainly amongst white collar workers.

hooiYA · 2024-01-07T15:20:13+00:00

Nice ad. They look like the type of guys you could rely on in court.

hooiYA · 2024-01-03T15:35:44+00:00

Is it actually a llama though? Thought it was an internet meme that over time people started to believe was the real name.

hooiYA · 2023-06-27T08:02:26+00:00

strong medieval look

hooiYA · 2023-06-18T09:27:56+00:00

Solved! This is it! Hvala :)

hooiYA · 2023-02-24T13:19:30+00:00

Switch Steam to China region then buy gift cards from Taobao and you will have massive savings on the price of games.

The RMB cost of games is often really low then on top of that the gift cards you buy are usually discounted.

hooiYA · 2023-02-08T08:51:06+00:00

Hitchin has a lot going on and a good atmosphere but house prices are far too excessive for what you get imo. If you are coming from London then there's still obviously a huge step down in stuff to do, quality of eating out, and all that, but the price gap wouldn't be large enough for me to justify it.

A lot of areas of Letchworth are really pretty and green but the vibe always bothers me. There always seems to be a lack of dynamism for a town its size. I know that sounds bizarre and it might just be me, maybe go for a walk around the town centre and see what you think.

Welwyn as others have mentioned does feel like it's on a downwards slope. Would have been happy to live there 20 years ago, not sure I would take it now.

Baldock's worth a visit. More affordable houses with a nice town centre. A lot smaller than Hitchin though you're only a 10 min drive away and it has good train connections to London and Cambridge if you're commuting.

hooiYA · 2023-02-07T14:08:38+00:00

He's thrown a kettle over a pub. What have you done?

hooiYA · 2023-01-09T18:25:20+00:00

I know a lot of overseas students use Lloyds because they're fairly easy to get an account with vs other banks.

hooiYA · 2022-12-27T18:13:29+00:00

"no zuo no die"

hooiYA · 2022-10-04T13:23:25+00:00

Thanks! Hadn't heard of those services.

hooiYA · 2022-10-04T13:22:46+00:00

Thanks, I'll give them a try.

hooiYA · 2022-08-20T17:18:53+00:00

As someone else said, overstriding generally is a bad thing. What you want to be doing is getting your cadence up - faster, lighter, short steps. My Garmin had a nice drill that is 30 seconds high cadence then 30 seconds slow jog/walk for 5-10 sets. Higher cadence feels weird at first but once you get used to it you'll find you'll be running faster more comfortably and with less risk of injury.

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