god loves his children

Onto a third city, well village, this is to soak something which is slowly disappearing here in China, well in actual fact its disappearing across the world.

As people move into the cities, we see villages become smaller and lose their quaintness. Then people realise that they can move cities out into the country. Franchises are the ones with money and they move into these proto-cities and we end up with clone towns. I know that's a generalisation and actually more prevalent in the UK. But in China, like a lot of places in the world, people are trying to live the dream in the city.

It isn't like the times of the emperor with beggars dying on the street, the people are actually very well fed. For me the eye opener wasn't the strength of the upper classes that can afford the Gucci hand bags or live the bourgeoisie life or even the mass of the lower classes, peoples faces tanned and darkened because of working long hours in the hot asian sun. the most interesting thing I have found is the upper middle class and then way they live. The closest thing I can compare to are the people working in the city in London, except without Esquire snobbery (although, you will be surprised the lengths people will walk around some of what the Japanese would call Bukuramin, even if you were of a lower class).

Susu's cousin is pretty well into her career working as a Marketing Manager for a large clothes brand (it shocked us more because we didn't know which brand until we waited for her in her office). Her English was great with an international twang to it, I'm used to the accent because of where I work, but it had flecks of slang and colloquialisms people are used to from me. A very modern girl, but the life she was living was fast paced, well paid and always looking over the Pearl Delta to other horizons. In the moment I was chatting to her over some glass noodles, two things came to me. The first was that modern China was the city, as I have said disposable income for the upper middle class is increasing, secondly the country bumpkiness of myself and my lifestyle I realised I have been in Europe a bit too long and the culture is ingrained into me. Although that isn't a sign that I will be up and leaving any time soon, I just realise that you have to see the good and bad of the world to learn that you shouldn't always stay where you are.

See you soon my beautiful eggs.