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Mon, 04 Mar 2024 19:58:49 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
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My Chinese friend told me to move back

His point is, social status is higher in China than in America. I can get invited to embassy events, have lunches with mayor's and captains of industry, and
generally immediately be in a higher social strata just by virtue of being an expat WGIC 

Wily, discuss


Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:01:07 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
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It's not that I value social standing so much, besides the material benefits, it's just that the american proletariat is rather dull. 


Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:24:58 -0800
zerosugar from private IP
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I think rich people can be dull too, especially new money types. I just find them intimidating. Some old money types can be quirky and funny and weird. Living
in the midwest, I have cool conversations with uber drivers more so than I would some guy whose life is his career. 


Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:44:26 -0800
whiteguyinchina from private IP
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I mean, business owners are interesting. Salary men are less so. I can relate to uner drivers because both of our lives kind of suck


Mon, 04 Mar 2024 21:54:36 -0800
zerosugar from private IP
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depends on the business. some business owners are people who just came across enough money to be able to start a business, but are otherwise dumb and/or have
nothing interesting to talk about. America is a country of small business owners though so it's such a broad category. 


Tue, 05 Mar 2024 04:38:39 -0800
Wily from private IP
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It's a good time man. 80% of the Murricans have left.  There's all kinds of incentives the gov is giving to prestigious foreigners to come (tax breaks, rental
reimbursements) this year.  You can probably get like 3 jobs if you're here. They've realized they can't actually run every foreign owned company and investment
with just 100% locals and 0 expats.

Alternately, a short roundtrip is probably better, just to refresh your ties, pwn your Underlings, and flex that you're a globe-trotting Murrican with good
Mandarin to all your rivals.  No Russian Dmitri or Singaporean Cheung is gonna replace you.


Tue, 05 Mar 2024 05:29:17 -0800
Wily from private IP
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Remember that time we ate Brazilian BBQ in Pudong and you broke out that Portuguese with the waiter? I was impressed.  I miss that.  And having normal Amerikkan
friends in Shanghai who aren't my underlings or random stealth Christian missionaries from Wyoming.  The Old Guard expats are nearly all gone here, and the
random Spanish or Croatian expat watching soccer at Cages are a poor replacement.


Tue, 05 Mar 2024 09:15:45 -0800
tcow from private IP
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really wish that i'd learned putonghua instead of espanol, francais, or portugues. feel like learning the euro languages doesn't do anything for me
professionally. french might be useful in the future, i suppose, but spanish is too widely spoken...and portuguese is only useful for brazilian bbq places or
getting laid.
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