fresh from a series of china visits, here are some thoughts:
- the air is much clearer for the relative absence of cigarette smoking pedestrians
- i never get ambushed by hocking and spitting folk. it's making me feel quite happily secure
- it's a lot noisier on the roads thanks to gas and diesel. one misses the EVs
- but i don't get ambushed by silent mopeds either. here they have harley davidsons. no ambush. no sirree! we assault!
- pedestrian is king here. in a really quite quite satisfying way that would be laughed out of the room back in asia
- sticker shock is real. and heart attack-inducing. especially when you do some mental arithmetic to convert the currencies
- add to that the tipping culture. owww
- the roads are wider and the houses are prettier, in the white picket fence way to which i have been acculturated
- you smell bbq instead of five spices on your walks
- the people make eye contact and say how are you? but you know from experience it is just as impersonal as elsewhere
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