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Originally Posted by microbet
Exhausting why? Language, no?
Having lived in Beijing for a month, I'll say the thing that most caught me off guard (besides the spitting and pantsless little kids peeing on the sidewalk) was the illiteracy on my part. For all of my listening and practicing Mandarin and reading the phrases in pinyin in the months leading up to my trip, I was utterly hopeless with reading signs, as most non-government signs are printed in characters. This can be a bit of a problem when looking for, say, a pharmacy. I pretty quickly figured out the ones for massages and liquor stores, tho...
I could definitely land a job in my field in China fairly easily, but I'd rather go to Dubai, fwiw.