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My Ideal Living Situation

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I am a Singaporean by birth and I grew up there. However, visits to the People's Republic of China (PRC) amazed me. PRC is where my great-grandparents are all born. The whole country is culturally rich.

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Some Chinese call me a 'ermaozi', literally translated as 'son of a foreigner', judging from my mannerisms, because over the years I picked up customs from other heritages. It's a derogative term in China, but well, I got to accept it.

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I hope to live in Dalian, the seaside city in northern China. It looks breezy and cool there, though there are cold winters. So hopefully I can settle in there if money and law aren't issues.

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The only drawback I can think now in PRC is that they aren't a democracy, they have no rule of law. Whatever. China is the 'in' country in Southeast Asia (except in Singapore, ironically, because of past commercial investments with Japan, EU and United States), and it's currently the most advanced country in Asia.

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