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I imagine the breezy university job probably refers to university outside of major cities? Or is major city job also chill?
Recently I find major city in China are quickly catching up to the U.S. in terms of living cost. But I imagine you can still live a good life in smaller cities like 重庆, 昆明 etc.
Personally I don't prefer to live in China because:
dude COVID was such a pain in the ass in china, i came back at the end of it after it was pretty much over in america, so i dont know what it was like here, but in china it was pretty annoying. luckily i lived in shenzhen though, so it wasn't that bad, just, really annoying
It certainly wasn't as strict by a long shot but at least for me it was a very stressful period but for the opposite reason.
People were absolute assholes to each other and were making rancid jokes about people dying and actively and openly sabotaging government attempts to prevent spread and deaths.
And the government fucked up on so many levels, it really made me lose faith in our collective ability to solve difficult problems like climate change.
In China people died in front of hospitals due to insane rules and outside of China people died in hospitals due to lack of care and lack of rules.
An elderly lady (not very old, around 60), I knew, broke her leg in April 2020, caught Covid in the hospital and died. And my grandparents were in a retirement home and somehow survived even though they were both around 90 but there were 3 major outbreaks killing over half of the people in there.
So it seems it sucked everywhere, aside from Taiwan and New Zealand perhaps?
good to be an island nation in a pandemic
Yeah being on an island does make it easier but it still requires good governance. The UK being a prime example of an island nation performing badly.
Aren't university jobs very badly paid?