Forums > Living in Kunming > GoKunming feedback... Go Kunming is a useful resource. The forums, like most forums, has a certain level of toxicity; that goes with the territory.
I think the site is a little dated, but perhaps this is about the way social media use has changed. A few years ago forum threads where how some groups kept in touch. Now many people set up group chats on Wechat. Perhaps forums are less relevant than they used to be for many people. I also think that many of us have accessed previously difficult to access forms of social media back home, and can meet our social needs that way; more easily than before.
All of the above are factors in reduced traffic on the forums.
I think the future for Websites like Gokunming is less in forum traffic, and more the other content including classifieds, articles, and listings.
But what do I know.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Short term storage help I remember a discussion with my Chinese wife about this gap in the service industries. She thought it a not so smart idea that people would not use because of theft. Not just break in, but collusion between security guards and local criminals (seen that and been the victim once). Most locals have family with property, where they can leave stuff if they need to vacate a place.
Forums > Living in Kunming > Short term storage help @ricsnap, have you asked your employer? Or are you between jobs?
Forums > Living in Kunming > Civilized Kunming I think a dictionary might be a good start for the basic meanings of the words. I am not trying to be facetious here btw
Forums > Living in Kunming > Civilized Kunming "...civility and 'civilization' aren't necessarily the same thing. Yeah, this could be a matter of splitting hairs..". @Ishmael, you are correct, and this is definitely not a case of splitting hairs, they are two different things that are not always directly connected. When people treat the words as synonymous you get all sorts of unhelpful arguments surfacing.
Snapshot: A trip to the world's tallest bridge
发布者Some of those villages might still be quite isolated, as the connections to the highway might still be hard to reach.
$17 billion Chongqing-Kunming railway nears completion
发布者The train won't suffer fog or China Eastern delay disease either.
Spring City's tallest skyscraper nears completion
发布者Tier ones, in the downtown/CBD areas will always be a good bet, but not so good in the suburbs unless serviced by or soon to be serviced by, Metro/subway lines.
Lower tier cities also have potential. Henan, Zhengzhou has boomed. Due to the city being named as an expanding rail hub for the Belt and Road initiative. Also, anywhere not yet serviced by a metro line. There is still room in this latter category in Kunming, but there is a need to be fast as the metro line as planned should be completed by next August.
I would also avoid buying new. Some of the more upmarket villas in SW Kunming are very poorly built, many are apartments and villas are overpriced and people are fighting to buy the more affordable.
Buying second hand may be less of an investment opportunity, unless a new metro line is going through. However, you can see quality or other issues more clearly and find out the reputation of buildings and management, you can buy already decorated (ready to occupy), there will be fewer unknowns.
Mid-Autumn Festival, China's harvest celebration
发布者Translation is perhaps a better word than adaptation. There are over 40 translations of the poem listed here www.google.com/[...]
Mid-Autumn Festival, China's harvest celebration
发布者The story of Li Bai always reminds me of:
The Little Fete
by J.C. Cooper
I take a bottle of wine and I go to drink it among the flowers.
We are always three -
counting my shadow and my friend the shimmering moon.
Happily the moon knows nothing of drinking,
and my shadow is never thirsty.
When I sing, the moon listens to me in silence.
When I dance, my shadow dances too.
After all festivities the guests must depart;
This sadness I do not know.
When I go home,
the moon goes with me and my shadow follows me.