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If I were in my twenties/thirties again with small kids (or none), yes, absolutely.
Now, no.
I have a business associate who did it with teenagers.
But they're from Norway and there's a bit more accepted nomadism there. (They lived here in the U.S. for 12 years.)
I've bought part of the farm I grew up on. I'm not so sure that was a terribly wise idea, either. Nostalgia can be painful sometimes.
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absolutely, we almost had a chance to move to Hong Kong about a year ago, we would have done that too.
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Hong Kong and Shanghai are definitely the "new" CHina. Just make sure you know where the hospitals for Westerner are. Yes, there is a difference. I hope to spend a few years in each city in the near future. BTW, gets your kids to learn Mandarin Chinese now, it will increase their chances of getting a better job. The best food is in the dives, no the modern places but make sure they cook it super hot.
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Yeah pRON, I recall "wall-gate"
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[quote vision63]Yeah pRON, I recall "wall-gate"
I actually got even more ill after volunteering at an orphanage there. I had to be on an antibiotic IV for two days. The first 3 floors of the hospital were pretty filthy. The 4th floor was for Westerners. It was well lit, clean, no dust, no water dripping on the floor. I got an IV from a real IV bag with sterile a sterile needle. SOme of the first floor people were using, I kid you not, a plastic Coke bottle for the IV container. This all while people were chain smoking.
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Dang. Double Whammy! That's pretty clever about the Coke bottle actually. I like how you warned us to have food cooked "super hot." I need to carry my own torch.
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'Not inclined to get lung cancer, SARS or bird flu, so... no.
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I wouldn't move to Shanghai for all the tea in....
nevermind ;-)
