Beijing Escorts: Foreigners in big cities don’t realize how lucky they are
Beijing of late certainly has its modern benefits and, let’s be honest, for those willing to uproot themselves to move here led by curiosity, and an impulsively purchased plane ticket, arriving in China’s capital isn’t as hard as moving to, say, “real China”.
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Honestly, those of you who live in China’s big cities like Shanghai and Beijing don’t even realize how easy you have it. Some people speak English, for starters.
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In small towns, we know what it’s like to find salvation in taking a bus to the closest second-tier city every two weeks, locating a Carrefour, and purchasing our beloved coffee, cheese, baguettes and ridiculously overpriced cereals. On that note, it eventually becomes almost incomprehensible to hear even tourists in Beijing complain how Starbucks ran out of flavoring for their “Chai-soy-vanilla-super-low-fat-latte”.
See the full article from “AsiaOne”