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Sign up with Google Sign up with FacebookQ: What don't you miss about home?
This is a reply to other questions about what you miss or like more about your home countries. And before you say "nothing," you will have something to say because your country is not some perfect piece of paradise. There are reasons you came to China, right?
What don't I miss? Not knowing what to do every day because life at home was so boring. Not having my friends around because they were too busy with their own lives to even say hello. Lack of cheap transportation to go where I wanted. No idea of what I wanted to do with my life. Lack of appreciation for my home country and things I took for granted. Having a job I hated that paid a low wage.
I don't miss the danger from my fellow country-mates. Knowing that there's at least half of any big city that my little white better not be seen in after the sun goes down. But in China, I enjoy the fact that I can meet a random group of strangers at dinner, go out to a bar, and walk home through some dark alleys in the middle of the night without having to bat an eye. Between the non-confrontational attitude and the fact that if you mess with a laowai, you make China look bad.... and nobody wants to make China look bad, or else.
The feeling that someone wants to harm me if I dare to walk out of the gate, the fact that there is no convenient and safe transportation, not having the feeling of safety.
crime, needing to drive everywhere (but i miss driving) , i dont miss speeding tickets, i dont miss police bothering me because i'm in the wrong neighborhood, gangs, guns, drugs,
The compulsory choice between a boring job or unemployment.
Cutbacks and costs for every little thing, the lack of generosity.
having to order my own meal instead of picking whatever I want with chopsticks
I don't miss the boredom. And I really don't miss the PC nonsense that is way out of control.
after reading the answers that I guess are from the US I realy cant complain about anything.
hi living costs and a job that I dont like V Guns and Gangs dont realy compair
Definitely don't miss worrying about my safety . Love the fact that I can walk home at night and not worry , or be in my apartment alone when my roommate's gone and feel completely fine .
I notice a lot of people saying personal safety. I think this displays a kind of illusion. China is just as dangerous than any other place, but the media doesn't report on crime here, so it gives you a false sense of security. I had a friend who witnessed the aftermath of a brutal rape and assualt in Beijing. No one was killed, but the girl had been beaten, raped and thrown unconcious behind a garbage pile. My friend asked the cop if they'll get the guy and he said "not likely, this happens alot and we usually don't." Then went on some migrant worker diatribe.
Anyway, I assume most of you concerned for your safery are Americans. Correct? It's just when I was last visiting friends there they seem constantly afraid for their lives. I never felt like I was in any kind of danger when I was with them, but they'd be worried. All seems like paranoia to me.
"China is just as dangerous than any other place,"
Not the case is it?
What place is it as dangerous as?
LA? (Can't walk the streets picked up by police who recommended us not to do so).
Sau Paulo. You just don't go out. They had running riots in the streets when I was there. Homeless people and drug addicts occupy the Playa Del Armas. I asked a guy about that and he just said 'oh, we down go down there'. (Playa Del Armas is effectively the town centre and 'we don't go down there'?!?).
I can name you any number of places where you DON'T walk at night. Serious places, where when they see you are foriegn, they'll follow you and rob you.
Also, I've been to a few places where it's not safe to be in the day.
None of them are in China.
Maybe the media doesn't report crime here. But it isn't all around you.
Home: I don't miss the dole queue. I won't be going back soon.
People with bad attitudes, liars, scammers, bad service, nobody really around to talk to, horrible opportunites for jobs, jealousy, envy, fraud, bad television networks, lack of entertainment, neighbors' barking dogs, bad drivers and having to listen or watch something on the news which will always have something bad to say and the reality that everyday bad things happen. If the news could for one day report on everything that is good there might be a change or a hope for one.