@laowai, Not sure if you are British, but you are certainly cynical enough. When you suggested jules77 to go elsewhere, I wondered how you've managed to live in kunming for years, and if I'm not mistaken, you have even taken a local girl for wife, that, must speak more than what you posted.
I think you are looking for an area that is greener, cleaner, quieter and easy to get around. I'd say northeast, just south of Beichen, on the door steps of Expo, along Bailong Lu. There are quite several xiaoqu would fit in your criteria. There are Jia yuan xiao qu, Li dao jiao yuan, Shi ji long yuan, Tan xiao yuan.....etc. to name a few. And the Expo isn't the only green acres benefites the area here. The Foresty University campus nearby provides vast acres of lawns, gardens and matured trees, it's a perfect place for strolling and relaxing, and it's free to enter. Tan xiao yuan and Shi ji long yuan are right in its neighborhood.
It takes no more than thirty minutes to get to green lake or Bei chen area at off peak hours, and there are plenty of buses running along. I have noticed on my last visit, there are only a few foreigners living in the xiaoqu I mentioned above, so you won't be totally deprived of seeing westerners around, but definitely, and absolutely not the bustling scene in Wenlin jie.
Chris, keep using the one you've used for years, the one with most result in Google as DantheMan finds. (Sorry, don't know how to type chinese from my computer, sounded dumb, I know). I say this because it reflects most accurately the pronunciation of the tone, and it was the only one I have ever seen back when I was living in China, if it ever even appeared in written form. To add the credibility on this opinion, I must tell you that I am a Chinese American, and a native kunminger to the bargain. Locals are not interested in how these words would be written because this kind of words only used in dialogue. They only appear in written forms mostly in recent years more because of the local entertainment industry's interest in productions reflect local lives, like some TV and radio shows.
And thatguyted, the other word you mentioned is the result of the accent from northeast Yunnan and further that direction into Guizhou and Sichuan, almost an equivalent of the ge in kunminghua.
I believe it has something to do with Wu Shi Plastic Surgery Clinic, which locates in Shu Lin Jie. Wu Shi is so far the most reputable plastic surgery clinic in Kunming. I think I saw a poster about this XXI century thing inside the clinic when I was there this summer.
I will be staying in Kunming for the month of August. I have a five year old boy who is excited about being in Kunming but at same time dreaded there is perhaps not much of opportunity to make friends because he doesn't speak Chinese. I am wondering is there any place he can meet children of his age who speaks English? Like a Children's English Camp sort of place. Thanks for any suggestion.
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