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[–] 86 points 4 months ago (44 children)

I have lived in all five of these countries and I can confirm, it’s all true. Especially china. It just sucks cock.

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  • [+] 95 points 4 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)
  • [–] 75 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    A person lying on the internet.......who could have foreseen this?

    I've been to most of these countries, they are all very nice. But like with anywhere it kinda depends on when and where you are, and you typically won't get a real sense of the place unless you have a lot of time to travel.

    The country side of Mongolia is beautiful in the warm season, I hear it's pretty barren and freezing when it's cold. About 50% of the population lives in Ulaanbaatar and it has a pretty bad issue with air pollution. It was very smoggy when I visited, and I hear it gets a lot worse in the winter season when it regularly has some of the worst air pollution in the world.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    They heat with coal stoves, their cities are like 18th century london.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, a lot of wood and coal fires for heating and cooling. Probably wouldn't be as much of an issue, but the city is nestled in a big valley that blocks the city from the wind so the smog doesn't really have anywhere to dissipate.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    That is the same dynamic with the mountains that makes the west coast of the US susceptible to higher air pollution, to say nothing of places like Mexico City. Not much coal that I'm aware of, but all of the exhaust has no where to go and just sits there.

    Out west I noticed smoke would hug the ground more, on the continental part it rises more.

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  • [–] 28 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Either they started with North Korea and escaped or they ended their tour with NK and they're still there.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Why would someone do that? go on the internet and tell lies?

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  • [–] 43 points 4 months ago (14 children)

    I have a mongolian friend, he said it was a choice between a dystopian city or the vast empty nature. I guess if you like nature it could be good but the density is sooooo low there are places where you wont see civilization for hundreds of kilometers.

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  • [–] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    I watched a heartwarming short of a guy getting stopped by the police in Mongolia for using a wind sail powered horizontal bike thingy.

    2 locals also showed up on a moped

    Top comment:

    "It's nice to see all 5 people in Mongolia meet up to see how OP's bike works"

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    There are places like that in the usa. It's about everywhere actually.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    The winters are super hardcore though. I forget numbers, but it gets really really cold, worse than the upper midwest of the US and central canada in temperature, although I think they get less snow than many of us.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Yeah i live in sweden and every time i complain about the weather he just shows me ulaanbaatar and its either like -35c during winter or +35c during summer

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

    How extreme is it for you? Because it gets -30°C in the winter here, and 30°C in the summer here, in my part of Canada.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yeah sweden is really mild cause of the gulf stream so even tho i live arround latitude 58(kodiak for reference, or kuujjuaq is a canadian example i found) winters usually dont drop below minus 15-20C and summers at best go up to 30C.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (6 children)

    I'm ethnically Chinese but never been there, well only the airport ... but why's it suck so much?

    I know people that wanna go back due to cost of living but I heard housing isn't cheap neither (depending on where you live perhaps?)

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    It doesn't.

    Housing is extremely affordable compared to here in the U.S. So is food, transportation and healthcare.

    I highly recommend Kunming

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (2 children)

    I'm definitely going to visit next year ... just putting away money for now. I'll see if I can add Kunming to the list, thanks!

    I can't wait to eat more food. My Cantonese is "okay" but my Mandarin is garbage ... I'm gonna spend the next year or so watching dramas and stuff to catch up!

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (1 child)

    Remember, if you order the mushroom hot pot you have to wait a bit before eating it. Maybe you already know this but we didn't and gave our server a heart attack. 😆 Fortunately we had only taken a couple bites and neither of us experienced ill effects.

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