Topic: adb2014 's blog Why I'm Still in China

-But I disagree with you almost 100% -First: China is not your home. Do you have a Chinese passport or green card? Can you work in any industry or change jobs at choice? Can you decide to work pt at the local bookstore of cafe? Can you vote? Or rather do you depend on a narrow visa that can be taken away from you at the whim of other people? -Second your children. Do you want them to go to a Chinese university? A university where 99% of student write plagarized essays, where professors have sex with girls for grades? A university where students are forced to march in circles while shouting they will be like Lei Feng? -Third your health. How long will you live in the toxic soup of Chinese air? The worst AQI in the US a few weeks ago was 78...Harbin was over 700. What does this do to your health? Need to go to a hospital, but you don't know if the doctors are giving your real pills, or just making up stuff to pad their bills? -Fourthly the best job you ever had was sorting mail? The fact that you see a future in ESL is not a great sign. Without a real education degree or PGCE you will have no chance at teaching at a real IB/AP school, which means you are stuck at language mills and the like forever. I just got my CELTA and realize that for less work and more money I could be in the middle east, or even go back to Korea. -I know you love your wife and kids, and China is very nice and easy to live, but the total lack of social mobility means my girl and I are out of here, and will only have our children in a place with a blue sky.