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Forums > Living in Kunming > suggested place for dental repair

obviously related to my other post seeking for good stitch skills, my teeth also need repairing. The bottom row needs to be rearranged a bit and two top row teeth are broken.

I've been recommended 拜尔口腔 and 杨医生 in 风宁小区. The Richland also have their dental department. Which one will it be?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > hospital choice for stitches

I had an accident and my chin needs quite a few stitches. Initially went to the Richland but I thought they did a horrible job so now I'm looking into my best option.

My colleagues say I should go to a large state-owned hospital like the Yunda one. These are supposed to have the best care.

other more foreign-minded people tell me to go to the International Clinic, which has foreign doctors and relatively cheap service.

Which shall it be?

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Upfront costs to renting an apartment

Absolutely no need for that; any piece of paper with the signature or fingerprint of both parties is valid. The agents' one is different of course, and looks so professional because it's standardised and they make hundreds a month. CC is just to save time and triple CC is because the agent also keeps a copy.

I've been on standard contracts bought from your average paper shop for the last three years without a single problem.

I've also been paying 6 months upfront, that's the least I've been able to get.

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巫家壩 is much more likely to be translated as the basin on the land of the Wu family, cfr. 石家莊 (not the house of a family of stones),張家口 (not a stretched house estuary).

That said, I recently walked the old silk road from the Nu river (Baihualing 百花嶺) to Tengchong. This is also a protected national park and the trail is well-marked in English and Chinese, and has many litter bins along the way. There's room for improvement, but it beats anything I've walked so far.

Beware that the author is probably using the Chinese AQI. It being an index, it is a relatively arbitrary figure compared to the absolute value of PM2.5 particles in microgrammes per cubic metre!

The American AQI standard would rate the concentrations with a much higher index score (also implying much higher health risks)!

they also release a chemical in the soil, killing competing plants. In combination with their water-sucking properties, this leads to even more aridity.

What does one do when one spots a forest fire? I saw several starting on my road trip near Lijiang in February, but saw no police station to report it to. Whom do I call?

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First and last experience. Absolutely horrible. I came in late with a big flesh wound. The doctor sewed it up and told me to come back in the morning "perhaps to redo it, and to change the bandage". When I did come back the next morning, they just changed the bandage and sent me off.

When I peeked at my own wound, I noticed it was horribly done. "Like a vet did the stitches," as someone commented. I then had to stay a night in a different hospital in order to do it right, with a 40% chance of getting infections. This cost me a lot more, thanks to Richland fucking up in the beginning.

Whatever X-rays were taken were not printed out and given to me so I couldn't go to another hospital for a second opinion or treatment.

The nurses didn't seem to know where half the things were and the doctors had to repeat orders to get basic things like scissors.

In the next hospital, it was noticed that I had fractured my jaw in two places. On the five X-Rays taken at Richland, they did not notice the fractures.

Pretty sure these people are not actual doctors and are therefore criminal.

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Super place. Really cool interior, lots of good beers and drinks, fun toilet inside the telephone booth, and an interesting clientele.

Cons: pretty hard to find, no matching glasses for the imported beers, and home brews need some work.

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Teaching and support lamentable.

Four people signed up for the highest-level class and got a teacher who does all the talking, refers to herself as 老师 and makes classes absolutely uninteresting. As of this moment, only 1 person is still going on a regular basis.

While staff is friendly, they are absolutely incapable to help out with visa matters in an adequate way. Lack of information beforehand, lack of support and lack of information during the visa process meant that I am waiting forever for my residence permit to be processed, without any information about why it's taking so long, why they can't get started ... I'd say this school is a good option if all you wanted is a visa, but they can't even handle this properly.

Anyone giving this school a 5-star rating hasn't been to any decently-run schools in Kunming, such as Keats'. The only redeeming quality is facilities and space, those are indeed excellent.

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Have been studying at Keats for almost four semesters now and I'm very enthusiastic about the quality of the teachers and the commitment of the school's staff.

One point of criticism is that I think they could put in some effort to group people of the same level together, rather than base it on who was together in last semester's class.

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I stayed here in the early days of March 2013. Dave and his wife are swell owners, the staff attentive, the food good, rooms in perfect order, WiFi fast enough... Much like the old hump, the entire place is an excellent place to relax and make friends. And that is what you come to do in Dali, after all. The location is a bit isolated from the old town, but nothing is really far away in Dali. Besides, it makes for a better starting point to walk up Cangshan.