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My academic understanding is that in Japan since meiji nikujiki saitai rules were repealed this is 99.99% common but in China that has rarely been the case. But yeah, there are certainly monastics in it for the money like at Leshandafo.
Glad you love it too :) Yeah it sometimes hurts my stomach but I've relaxed on eating too spicy. That sounds horrible! My uncle had me drink too much the first few days as well and it also made me slow down.
Wow! That's a long time. How was it living through COVID? Was being closer to Wuhan difficult? Are you all in Kuala Lumpur? We lived there back in 2018. Very fun but not that walkable. Sounds like you've had a lot of good family time!
Oh we lived in Suzhou, so not close to Wuhan at all. Just traveling to the village over CNY, year round nobody really lives here.
Covid was still terrible, Suzhou had the strictest measures in all China since they are a hotbed of the medical industry and absolutely wanted to avoid any slowdowns, so we spent a collective total of 3 months in home isolation, experienced food shortages, had alarms taped to our doors that would trigger text messages to the nearest police station if we opened it outside of mandatory testing windows, the whole nine yards. That's also mostly what motivated us to gtfo, made us realize we live there like cattle without free will or rights.
In Malaysia we live in Seremban, capital city of the neighboring state to KL, and actually closer to KL airport since that's so far out of town. I need to travel quite a bit for work, so that comes in handy.
Not walkable either, so had to get a car first thing after arriving; relying on grab was a bit cumbersome. Now I work from home 99% of the time when I'm not visiting suppliers. We have a small representative office in KL that acts as my formal employer, but I'm functionally fully attached to the Chinese/HK company. Thanks to covid we had missed some mandatory supplier audits, and ultimately decided that to counter this in the future, someone qualified/certified needs to live in a third country jurisdiction, and I was the lucky choice.
That’s absolutely insane! I cannot imagine living like that.
Lucky you got to choose to continue in the company abroad.
Your comment maybe adds to my reasoning of why I love China and east Asia but don’t want to live in China. Still aiming for Japan.
Yeah I wouldn't want to live here again anymore, it's not fun long term. I could imagine Taiwan on the other hand side, it's pretty awesome. Though I could imagine the constant threat from China looming over you isn't particularly nice.
Japan is also lovely, friend of mine just moved over last year. He married a Japanese woman he met in China though, that made it rather easy.
Personally I would consider Vietnam or Thailand and maybe Philippines long term (especially after retirement), mid term we are headed for Scandinavia first.