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if I got enough money to retire on comfortably right now.........I dont think I would. I really enjoy my work and it would take a lot of convincing to think sitting around on a beach in Thailand would be as much fun as my job is right now. Oh, hang on a sec, I am sitting on a beach in...

i'm in Thailand now. Staying in a very nice resort in Pattaya (which is one of my least favourite parts of Asia). Driving from Bangkok airport here, I think there are all the signs of a housing bubble. there seems to be a huge number of apartments being built, largely targetting foreigners...

no and no... I am very anglo. although I suspect on the inside, I'm quite asian in my attitudes. many of my close friends are asians, and they usually say I'm the most asian anglo they know. and I dont speak any mandarin at all. I speak some Japanese, but I'm really not good at languages...

I'm at Beijing airport now, heading to Thailand for the final leg of my trip. Not much opportunity to do any investigations into the property market this trip. But I was out near the 5th ring road today, in an industrial area, and there is lots of building development. (all commercial/...

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I'm back in Beijing.... I'm staying in a different hotel. Its on the 4th ring road in the east. There is parkland right next door, which is an unusual sight in Beijing. So, I'm in a corner room, and I can see for miles and miles, cause the weather is clear and the sky is blue.......... thats an...

Well, I learned 3 very important things today. Firstly, there are a hellavu lot of people in China... and they had all travelled to World Expo today!! secondly, that a slight phobia of crowds and tight spaces, and World Expo in China are not a good combination!! and thirdly that Chinese...

Just arrived in Shanghai this afternoon.... Didn't get much more info on Beijing than what I found out of the first day. Driving from the airport, its clear that Shanghai has a very different "feel" to Beijing. Its much newer and cleaner, less traffic, almost no historical sites/ temples...

Had a good chat to one of my colleagues yesterday....and went for a big drive all around Beijing. According to her, there is a lot of new development, both resi and commercial, btw 5th and 6th ring road. We went out in that direction, and I would agree - there is clearly alot happening. There...

No, I'm not a believer that China will crash. I think that there is movement in the economic cycle in every market, and that there are inbuilt "stablisers" which will help to stop it from crashing. I think the building boom in the main cities had already tapered off, which certainly seems to be...

I arrived in Beijing this morning, and one of my "unofficial" tasks while I'm here is to get a local viewpoint of the property market here, and whether its as dire as some have suggested. So, my report so far is that there is definitely a lack of obvious building activity on the drive from the...

Our factory is certainly not in a visitor part of town, so I have seen some of the less glamorous parts of Beijing. I won't stay in the hotel near there... way too disgusting! and there's certainly a lot of dirt in Beijing! Amazing dust storms there as the winds blow in from Siberia...

Well, I'll see what I can do... I'll be there at end of May. But without some better indication of where in Beijing/ China these apparent ghost towns are, it could be misleading!!:D It could be that the areas I'm in are the few thriving metropoles, and nowhere near the ghost towns.... and of...

I would be interested to know where these ghost towns are... they are certainly not in Beijing, from what I've seen there. Our company has an office out around Ring Road 6, and that is now completely full of factories and offices... whereas 2-3years ago it was rural. No sign of ghost towns even...

I travel to Beijing pretty regularly. The number of cranes over new buildings was definitely lower on my last trip, which was a couple of weeks ago. So, I think there is a slowdown in the number of new residential buildings, which should help avoid a bubble. There is such a strong domestic...