Tag: expat
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SSP27 – New Age of Decay
Recorded on Saturday, September 25, 2021 This episode has another band joining me, The New Age of Decay. The band / project is made up of Michael Burton, aka NotAnotherPoet, and Dann Gaymer, aka The Slow Blade. They join me online as Michael has recently returned to the UK while Dann and I are still…
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SSP23 – David Horton
Recorded April 17, 2021. This week I bring on another fellow expat here in Beijing and we talk a lot about what life is like in China both now and when he first came over over a decade ago. Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, David is a writer and editor now based in Beijing, China and…
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If not China, then where?
I said it a few months ago that if the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown doesn’t resolve itself by June then that’s when things would become worrying. And that is slowly becoming the reality. I’ve made posts on Facebook indicating that things are starting to look a bit more desperate here in Beijing, despite the…
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What’s it like to live in China?
I write this post in an effort to give some idea of what it’s like to live in China, Beijing in particular, seeing as though I’ve only ever lived in the nation’s capital and only travelled through other parts of the country. I should make it clear that someone living in a Tier 1 city…
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Eight years of blogging
This post marks eight years of writing online, otherwise known as blogging. I didn’t think much of really taking my blog far at the beginning (and I still kinda don’t) but it has served as a good benchmark for both my travels and my life in general over the last eight years. You see, I…