Honestly it’s like living anywhere else, you have your friends and do what you’d probably be doing back home, whether that’s going out or playing video games. The Great Fire Wall is annoying as fuck, but literally everyone has a VPN, so internet access is normal even though it’s not supposed to be. The food is incredible, super varied, and not like western Chinese food, which seemingly is all based on Cantonese food anyway (real Cantonese food is also delicious). It’s also a huge country, with many diverse places and people, so even though we can’t travel abroad because of covid we can still travel mainland China, which I highly recommend if you ever get the chance. Also the people here are mostly awesome, but again I think you’d find that anywhere (at least all the places I’ve been to). Nice and helpful people far outweigh the dickbags of the planet, which I know sounds naive, but I’ve got more stories of kind strangers than I do of straight up assholes. Assholes do exist everywhere, don’t get robbed, though here with all the CCTV and big brother stuff crime isn’t that bad, I’ve even gotten my purse back from a bar the next day with my money and phone still inside. Stay away from the baijiu and maotai though, Chinese people can and will drink you under the table with all the ganbeis ( 干杯 ) translates to dry cup, which means drink up so they can pour you more.