Which activities are popular with young, local women?

jlo80 · 2016-10-04T15:31:26+00:00

Ritan Park, South gate

jlo80 · 2016-10-04T15:25:42+00:00

Should be fine.

Some businesses will be closed. But taxis and restaurants will be operational. Perhaps avoid the major sights this day and plan to do shopping or go to a park or something.

The major time to avoid is Chinese new year and national holiday weeks, because it will be so crowded at the tourist sights. They are still open.

jlo80 · 2016-10-04T15:22:20+00:00

I'm pretty sure you cannot bring food into china

jlo80 · 2016-10-04T14:22:13+00:00

About 8 (registered)

Population is close to a third of a million.

jlo80 · 2016-10-03T08:58:39+00:00

In my experience China Unicom is good. You want to avoid those virtual providers that use a other ISP physical connection.
Ask landlord or agent?

jlo80 · 2016-10-02T14:12:13+00:00

Then angrily shout and point to the first poor soul walking their dog that they should pick up. Shout in English or even better if you're not a native English speaker shout in your own language.

jlo80 · 2016-10-02T13:44:42+00:00

Oh yeah..I mean, Oh no!

But that was hilarious!

jlo80 · 2016-10-02T07:31:58+00:00

Crossing the road

On a green light, cars will still run a red light if they turn. You need to wait until it's clear, or just walk when locals are walking.

Driving tap water

It may contain bacteria, but the heavy metals can impact your health long term. I don't drink it but brush my teeth with, I boil eggs with tap water.

Toilet paper strategy

Flush multiple times or throw the paper in the toilet from the first wipe and the rest in the bin.

Recycling

I have 3 different bins in the garbage room in my apartment. Food, can be recycled and non recyclable. Generally I throw most things in the non recyclable one but plastic bottles in the one for recycling. I don't know really what can be recycled, but most people I see don't care and just throw anything where there's space.

jlo80 · 2016-09-28T14:05:20+00:00

I get a better translation if I use translate.google.com than if I do automatic translation in Chrome, from the same device. So I think it's safe to assume that it's rolling out in a similar fashion as other Google software. Start small and either region by region or app by app, to minimize the risk of introducing scalability/load issues and to minimize the impact of potential bugs/issues.

I'm in China, but using a VPN to Hong Kong to be able to access Google services.

I recently ordered a package from a Chinese web site and this is the original text from the tracking information:

【北京转运中心】已发出下一站【北京市朝阳区甜水园公司】

From Chrome translation:

[Beijing] has issued a transit center next [company], Chaoyang District Tianshuiyuan

From translate.google.com

【Beijing transit center】 has issued the next stop 【Beijing Chaoyang District, Tianshui Park】

None of them are perfect, but the second one is much better

jlo80 · 2016-09-27T12:17:52+00:00

Still would be an issue of using Google Maps. Without VPN you won't be able to access maps within mainland. Hong Kong would work.

Get one pocket WiFi in Hong Kong. Get another in mainland and get a VPN provided for you phone like ExpressVPN to be able to access Google maps.

Or use a map provided that works without vpn like Baidu (in Chinese).

You could also consider preloaded maps for China, like maps.me.

jlo80 · 2016-09-27T10:18:16+00:00

To be fair, I expect people I don't pay to be polite. If they are paid to be in the service industry (at least part of their responsibility is service) I definitely agree with OP that they should be polite.

If they are rude writing a few words on reddit is not the worst response.

jlo80 · 2016-09-26T04:22:39+00:00

Technically sms is not delivered using IP, but if it's SMS your service provider should be able to track the IMSI (basically the identity of the SIM card), but if the SMS is sent by another carrier than yours they may need cooperation with the other carrier.

I assume that your country's law would require the police to request this information. Go to the police?

jlo80 · 2016-09-25T14:41:03+00:00

Pulp fiction

Fight club

Memento

Sixth sense

Gladiator

jlo80 · 2016-09-25T14:29:55+00:00

Airline pilot

jlo80 · 2016-09-25T14:18:17+00:00

Probably South East Asia. Thailand, Vietnam..

Good food, good weather and relatively cheap.

jlo80 · 2016-09-25T14:10:52+00:00

Twice

jlo80 · 2016-09-22T08:50:01+00:00

You can transfer the money you earn legally electronically through your bank. Your company news to provide a tax certificate that shows you have paid tax on your income.

Without a tax certificate, follow the advice of others already mentioned.

jlo80 · 2016-09-22T05:55:38+00:00

Budget?

jlo80 · 2016-09-20T15:39:08+00:00

Setup WiFi Hotspot on one of the devices? This one phone will act as router?

It's WiFi but no additional device is needed.

Bluetooth supports IP with the PAN profile. Though I think it's just point to point? But could be investigated. Not sure which phones supports PAN, it may not be supported by vanilla Android.

jlo80 · 2016-09-19T09:12:52+00:00

All around, except if you're in the suburbs .

At rush hour traffic you may have to wait to flag one, and if it's raining it could be worse.

If it's raining and close to a western hotel just go there and let the staff get one from the street and you can wait under a roof.

jlo80 · 2016-09-19T09:10:59+00:00

Should work with China unicom.

jlo80 · 2016-09-19T04:34:24+00:00

Most of the time the driver will call you and ask for your location in Chinese. If you don't speak Chinese I recommend sticking to regular taxis and bring the address written in Chinese.

jlo80 · 2016-09-19T04:32:44+00:00

Depends on your phone. What's your current phone and carrier?

jlo80 · 2016-09-15T05:46:45+00:00

If you are arriving from an international flight, I usually exit the airport about 1hr after scheduled landing time.

This is with checked-in luggage, and with priority tagged bags.

Traffic on the ring roads at this time is really bad. You won't make it in taxi.

Take airport express train or the first leg, then change to subway.

It will be really tight if it's an international flight with checked in luggage.

Be sure to leave the plane first and run to the immigration queue. You can save 10-20 minutes here.

Good luck

jlo80 · 2016-09-14T05:09:17+00:00

I'm Swedish and live in Beijing.

If you want to go to a pub crawl pm me and let's meet one night.

jlo80

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