City Guide
Answers
Login
Home
/
Community
/
Forums
/ Post a Reply
Post a Reply
Thread: Why DO expats work in China
Title:
(100 characters at most)
Content: ( 3,000 characters at most, please )
You can add emoticons below to your post by clicking them.
[quote=APAULT,227385]Pinetree has thrown up the challenge on this subject again... and I think there weren't so many replies last time so let's try again.I came because I have many Chinese friends in Australia and on the internet who told me so much aboust China and I wanted to see China for myself. When the opportunity came (free to take up the option) I took it. I have temporarily returned to Australia for family reasons but will be back next year as I miss my Chinese friends.As teacher I met hundreds of marvellous young people. They are more straight forward and more honest and happy in a simpler lifestyle than we find in the west. I spent a lot of my free time helping them with studies and discussing life in general, and in my experience so do MOST foreign teachers in schools and colleges. Most enjoy teaching and like helping young people and are richly rewarded but seeing the effort the students put into it, and by the sincere way they want to help us. Most certainly did not go there for the money. There are some foreigners in China on western salary plus living away from home allowances, it is simply a stage in their career...though most that I have met say it is an an interesting stage. This is globalisation and part of China's strategy to develop.And yes, as a recent thread has discussed, some males come for the girls, but in my experience that is a small minority. (And for those of who didn't come for this reason find there are quite a few girls chasing us - that's life.)But I shouldn't speak for others, come on expats, add your comments.[/quote]
characters left
Name:
Get a new code