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ChinaBound:
   John,

 Everything is great. Thank you for asking. Unfortunately
 many men have the same issue with their ladies after a
 brief stay out of China.

 As long as your good with it moving to China is a great
 option. I would take a look at Guilin when you return as
 it is very beautiful there. We enjoy our stays there.

 Stephanie enjoys both countries so it is not a issue for me.
 I still do the truck thing and bought another home in
 Sapulpa Oklahoma. About 10 miles from Tulsa but more of
 a country setting.

 Yes this place is a ghost of a forum. To bad because we had
 fun and provided great information.

Take Care
Ted

Willy The Londoner:

--- Quote from: JohnB on February 04, 2018, 01:36:52 pm ---Willy, I send my wife's family (as in, son) money each month. Education expenses. Jing told me the other day the US$ is weak. I don't pay much attention to the rmb exchange rate... only to my US$ expenditures! Anyway, I did the calcs.. "my" dollar/ rmb ratio is 4.65% cheaper than a year ago. Less bang for the money I send him.

I had to Google it. Maybe of interest, but the dollar is not just falling against the rmb, it is falling against all the
major currencies. https://internationalbanker.com/brokerage/us-dollar-consistently-falling-throughout-2017/
Things are improving for you. I just checked the exchange rate. The pound buys you 8.9 rmb.

We'll be in China mid- April for our last 'vacation'. I'll probably have to bring a few extra bucks to make the visit doable.

 

--- End quote ---
Hi John
Been off for a couple of days with the bug.
My January exchange notched up 9.2 rmb to the pound. best it has been since UK voted in 2006 to leave the European Community. It was 10.5 when I arrived here in 2009.
Short lived though as the big fall on the US Markets this week hit the exchange again and it is down to 8.77 again today.  But it still buys a lot here.

Willy

David E:
Hi All !!!!

I often pop in to the Site to check whats new in the "Chinese Bride" World...but apart from a VERY few of the old guard posting, there seems little interest in general...I think the whole foreign bride scenario has gone cold...too many scammers, too many Governments making it difficult.
For Ming and myself, life has settled into our own routine, we have a good life and she has just applied for Australian Citizenship. She still visits her home Town (Chengdu) twice each year, but I dont go now...my COPD cant take the air pollution !!!

She gas a good mix of Chinese and Western friends here and enjoys her life in a warm climate, she can even cook a half-decent egg and bacon.

She has a job teaching Mandarin to second and third generation Chinese children whos parents wish them to learn the Chinese language, because they now see it as their second language.

I sometimes run across Scottish Rob on face book, but none of the old gang surface any more...it would be nice to know how they are all doing.

Regards to all

DavidE

Pineau:
Johnb, me, willi and Robert are about all that is left. But I am still kicking. Fiona ia a US citizen and Katie has applied for citizenship. I check here once a week.

Robertt S:
  Nice to hear from you again David! Like Gerry said, not too many of the old regulars post anymore here. I guess their lives have gotten to busy to hang out here like the old days. My wife and I are still going strong after 8-1/2 years and hopefully that continues. I don't post here a lot either, mostly housekeeping and deleting spammers that try to join.

 I am trying a few things in the hope of increasing membership and activity on the site, I am wanting to open this site up to cover more than just China because there is many other Asian countries that need the information and support we might provide. I have recently changed jobs after 17 years and that has been an adventure in itself. I just got to get used to staying in one location daily instead of being a mobile service technician traveling state-wide.

 My wife stays busy with her job and is as happy as she can be since she purchased her first car! I have been much happier also since she started working, now she doesn't have a lot of time to find honey do's for me to do after work. This has greatly opened up my weekends for my favorite hobby of motorcycle riding! We have also just recently welcomed her son to the USA, I sent his paperwork in back in Oct of 2010 and he received his visa in July of last year. He came over in late November and managed to get his Georgia driver's license shortly after receiving his green card. That impressed me very much since his English is very bad.

 Hope to hear from you again soon!
Robertt

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