Dear Joe:

My first thought: check the air quality there. Not long ago I talked to a person who visited Vietnam, as a tourist. He said the air in the big city or cities- don’t remember the specifications, was very bad. I asked if he wore the mask people do (seen on TV)- he said No, he hated the idea of wearing a mask. I would feel very, very uncomfortable living in a place with such bad air quality as he described, smelling the dirt in the air with every breath I take. If I lived in such dirty air, I’d do anything to move away. And I would never consider visiting such a place, let alone work there or live there otherwise.

My second thought: the horror stories you mentioned are scary. I remember from previous threads you mentioned you’d like to travel to Scotland, and you live in the UK, so I am thinking you have very little travel experience in Europe, even in the UK, so it would make sense to me that you fulfil your traveling dream first in the UK/ Europe where it those horror stories are unlikely to happen.

But then, of course, you are talking about a job in China, teaching – which is what you want. This is a huge draw and you don’t have such an offer elsewhere.

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anita