Woah I woke up and there are so many responses. I would try and find an emote to express how touching the welcome has been, but I don't have three hours to spare so uh, just read this post in an emotional tone in your head

John Brown did nothing wrong!! Also do we seriously have a Deng Xiaoping emote hahahahaha

I have no clue what is in that picture, the emotes here are deranged, but I’ll agree to the general sentiment

Oh wait is that trump and the cheeseburgers lol

Glad to be back!! There are so many emotes idk how to handle them all

It is more convenient… until you get your covid passport app yellow coded because the government knows you booked a train (that you never even took) to a city where there were 2 recorded cases (out of a population of 5 million), and you can’t enter any public buildings for a month (real thing that happened to a relative)

I am all for centralisation until I have to like. Actually trust any state

Vibes were off idk Maybe I wasn’t in the right place but people seemed to take themselves so seeeeriously

Ok that’s it I’m outta here pack it up

I’ve been back a fair amount, not in the last couple of years though. Things took a turn when it became necessary to use WeChat for everything. I have Complicated TM feelings about China and one of the icky feeling things is “let’s make everyone use one app for all financial transactions and travel bookings and literally every fucking thing ever”. Back in the day you could just swan around with a wallet full of cash and have the most fun

Then I shall as one of them!!