WILLY
I MARRIED A BEIJING LADY 5 YEARS AGO AND I COULD NEVER LIVE IN CHINA
DONT GET ME STARTED THE AIR, FOOD, EVEN THE FOOD STORES AND NO TOILET PAPER YEK X 100000 TIMES.
WE LIVWE IN INDIANA CENTRAL usa AND WOW DID SHE FLOURISH HERE NOW SHE WILL NEVER GO BACK. IF YOUR BRIDE WAS OPEN TO GO TO BRITIAN SHOULD BE THERE ALREADY NOTHING BUT THE LADY KEPT YOU IN CHINA POOR YOU SHE WOULD GO I BET IN A INSTANT
ANYWAYS HOPE YOUR MARRIED AND DOING WELL. IF YOUR PLAYING AROUND YOUR NUTS
I thank that you should read a lot more before you make personal comments.
If you had then you will know that right from the start I made it clear that I was not a ticket to a new life in another country.
OK most foreigners would not want to live here on a permanent basis. But then I would not want to live permanently in many of the 35 countries I have been to, including the USA.
When I first got here I told all that I intended to live in China. Within a week of arriving here I had taken on the rental of an apartment for 6 months so that I got myself settled and got everything I wanted over from the UK.
I found the lady I wanted to spend my life with and yes I arrived in June and it was seven months later in January that we married, so yes we had got to really know each other in that period. I wonder how many weeks you actually spent in person together before you married?
A few of China's big cities have severe air pollution it is like the USA where some places are better to live than others. But if you had spent more time in China you would have found a place that suits you. I find the place that I wanted to live and that is in the region I now live.
No pollution, good air, is on the coast and close to Hong Kong with access to the world. When I was younger I lived in polluted London sometimes the air was so bad that buses had to be led along streets by a person walking alongside with a torch and that was in daytime! Smog they called it and it took London more than a hundred years to clean up its air. The same could be done in Beijing but it takes time.
Yes foreigners coming here have no idea about Chinese food. They come here thinking that they like Chinese food back home in the USA or UK or wherever but that is foreign food cooked in a chinese style to suit foreign palates. Chinese food here is completely different. I eat Chinese food as it comes. In fact in my life I have always eat the local food. Some I would not eat twice admittedly.
My wife has been to England and seen the sights and of course she would move to England if I wanted her too but it is I that do not want to live in UK. The country where I was born is not the country of today. My wife had no say in that. It was purely my decision and unlike most I had the experience of my father who was in China for a while before I was born. (I often look for possible half brothers here!)
I am pleased to hear that your wife is happy in the USA. Long may she do so. I toyed with the idea of moving to the USA some years ago but fortunately came to my senses in time! LOL
Life takes some adjusting to wherever you are. I, like you, have been married for five years. I inherited a wide family and family life here is so much closer than in any other of the countries I have been too. I am no longer here on a visa I live on here with a residents permit. I have a new car, we own one home and have another being built. Life is good, life is sweet, life is Chinese.
Willy
