This week I want everyone to know that I have officially gotten an offer from one school and a soft offer from another. Being me, the most important thing about each is location. The firm contract is in Qingdao, a coastal city in the north. The city is unique because it was settled by the Germans over 100 years ago and have subsequently developed a famous brewery and a pub culture, which is rare in China. Qingdao is also famous for its beautiful beaches, which are right in the middle of the city. Beaches and pub culture may make the place seem like a dream, but it's so far north that the winters would get snow, and summer would be a lot shorter. On the plus side, it's so close to Korea and Japan that there are ferries that go to both.
The other offer is from Changsha, the capital of Hunan Province, where I currently live. The food would be similar to here (unbelievably spicy), but the city is much larger and more cosmopolitan. Than here. Overall, though, Changsha is not a Chinese mega-city and can't compete with places like Shanghai or Guangzhou. Cost of living is low in Changsha, but so is desirability. I'm eager to live in a place where the things I want to do and see are actually in the city I live in rather than an hour or two hour train ride away.
I've interviewed for a couple of places in Shenzhen but haven't gotten an offer yet. I haven't been searching hard enough in Guangzhou, so I think I'll focus on that for the time being. I feel confident that I can get an offer there or somewhere in the Pearl River Delta. But who knows? I wanted to have a fall job in the works by the end of this week, so everyone keep fingers crossed!
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