The Pros And Cons Of Living In China 

I'm not Chinese I have been there once and I will go back again the minute I can love the food and the culture. The west should learn from China not attack it all the time. ✌

the best of your channel is honesty and telling truth, good or bad is OK, it is for everyone to judge, just tell the world the true China, thanks!

When i'm in China Nico the last thing i want to see is Western food! With all the amazing cuisine everywhere in China, i always scratch my head in bewilderment when i see Chinese persons eating Western food over there lol! Keep the videos of China coming Nico. In these dark times here in Australia and the West, where China is being slandered and evil spoken of into the ignorant Western minds, we need more videos from people like you to show the true beauties and wonders of China.

I have been to Shang Hai,China last year, beautiful and surprisingly very clean city. Definitely would visit China again

I cannot wait to get myself over to China and experience this for myself ❤️ 🤗.. I have always been drawn to China. Every country is going to have some bad points, its silly to travel anywhere thinking there are only good points, but I think it's important to experience the country for yourself and keep an open mind.. I personally love the Chinese culture, the people, the food, so China has my heart ♥

narrow minded people cannot understand this simple philosophy: there's no such a perfect thing in the world, people, country, everything has pros and cons. hope your video can educate at least some people to open their mind. last thing, i'm curious to ask you, do you think bread in China is too sweet?🤔 how does it taste in the UK? Chinese people usually think bread is some sort of snacks, people don't really think it's a formal meal, and as you know most Chinese dishes are salty, so Yin and Yang...

As always I love your spirit Nico! Your positive vibe makes people happy 🤗🤗

Thanks for another great video. This is the first time I comment but I've watched quite a few of your videos and find them wonderfully enjoyable. I did a bit of traveling in my younger years but I haven't been to China -- though I know some of its neighbors such as Korea and Japan. Here I can see China through your eyes, and it looks amazing. Maybe I will see it for myself one day. All the best to you and Jack from tiny Luxembourg.

really true experience! Good and bad points are all objective.

Another great video...I strongly agreed what you had said. I had been to most part of China, it's unimaginable how it change my perception. This is the only nation I see changes is so fast and the the culture is truly fancinating. Qinghai scenery is beautiful....I look forward to go China again when the border open again.

Thanks for sharing the real sides of China to the world

love the video. I can tell you put a lot of effort into it. Great job in summarizing the pro and cons.

Thank you for your insights and honesty!

Again, thank you for your honesty. You are such a force for good. I hope you can keep making these videos. We love you so much Nico!

yes，as a Chinese，I sometimes feel dissatisfied with some lifestyles。But these dissatisfaction are generally just small contradictions，Then some people came forward and said that our regime is authoritarian, the president is a tyrant, and the people are slaves。Therefore, we must explain to them. Our lives are much better than they thought、So it becomes more and more patriotic。。。lol

Yet another bloody brilliant production!!! Totally agree with pretty much all the points made here! Absolutely loved it!! I also loved the way the message was delivered. It brought a smirk to my face. Gonna rate it a 10.1/10 performance and production!!

Love it! Thanks for the share ❤️

Great contents Nico 🙏👍👍 Looking forward to your next vlog 🙏👍💕

Great Vid

As a Chinese, I totally agree “Never travel on a public holiday”, my mom always came up with bad ideas to go somewhere crowded, I’d rather stay at home

Just found your channel, I definitely agree China has some good and bad sides, and the most important thing is being honest about that 😊 we definitely have things to improve on, as well as any other countries. Love it! 💚

Great vid, concise too, thanks

谢谢Nico的每一期视频❤️非常有意义

Well done Nico! This one of the few good vlogs that I've ever watch about China from a foreigner's perspective. Very candid and entertaining in a freshly pleasant manner. Go for it girl!

Great content! Thank you for sharing ur feeling about China!🤗

Great video! Love your channel!

Thanks so much for sharing.

The definition of Disneyfication is spot on, the commercialization of some historical legacies in China is appalling. All in all, an unbiased and thorough review, good on you.

Awesome video made by your heart. very good, look forward to watching more your videos.

Smashing video. Really nailed the essence. Love your sense of humor in the beginning. Adore David Attenborough too.

For thousands of years, the native Chinese developed a system of Yin-Yan(Tao), a native originated religion which describes every single thing, matter, particle on this planet and in the Universe. Chinese people are aware of that everything has its pros and cons, this mindset can strengthen their endurance. Yin and Yan can mean Pros and Cons, bad and good, - and +, darkness and light. Like the big ban theory, Tao also believes the entire universe is originated from 0 -- nothingness Those who simply view something as good or bad are either too naive, simple-minded, brainwashed or "bad" individuals who serve a certain political purpose, b/c political is all about lie, cheat and steal

Informative and hilarious.

Your points are quite convincing.

love your vlog, do more pls, thanks

Great unbiased video! Keep up with your good work! I spent all my life in UK.I am retired since 2002, I spent totally 3 months a year in China. There are so much to see in China. The sceneries are so different in China. There is always a surprise around the corner. China has worked so hard to stop polutions, Sometimes, Beijing cars are only allow to be on the road on either odd or even days. There are so many electric cars, electric bikes in China. Solar & wind powers everywhere. They planted lots of trees in deserts. They tried to purify their rivers. They produced more wet lands for the wild life. Divert water from the south to the north where required. Good infra-structures, great highway systems & high speed train systems throughout the country. All these happen in the last twenty years. Chinese are not selfish or war-like. Chinese are peace-loving. Chinese like to share & help others when possible, like "one Belt one Road" Project, etc. It is ashame that all these Western Media push out anti-China views!

Another classic well produced video

Nice videos! Apart from the objective perspectives, the filmming and editting of your videos are also very impressive. Eventually I know the reason since you mentioned your former designer job before came to China. Looking forward for more China videos after everything back to normal.

Interesting Video😁

Hi, Nico! Just bump into your channel recently and love your content. I am a Chinese working and living in Beijing, busy for everything, never have enough time or budget to travel, even in my own country. Your travel videos make me realize how my country diversifies. I really hope your channel will grow bigger. It saddens me that your channel with such great quality hasn’t thrived yet. Since you have lived in China for such a long time and known about it far better than 99% westerners, I’d live to recommend that you start your own channel on the Chinese app bilibili, an RU-vid counterpart. I am sure you will got more followers and more views, and of course more economic gain.

Amazing video, i hope this pandemic end soon...to visit china :D. keep the great job!

I like the style you editing the video. interesting. and you are so honest about the pros and cons. haha

Love this. Been living in China for two years and agree with all of this especially the food bit. And I decline that durian pizza, thank you!

Yes, your complain about breads is genuine, maybe you can find better ones at ikea, carrefour, walmart's bakeries. I've no idea why these sweet tasting breads suddenly became dominant in the marketplaces since few years ago. Also over-development or over-utilization at natural parks is actually a problem that the government is addressing to. But I'm not sure whether installing a lift on a mountain is really good or bad, because some elderly people who have weak knees and joints will love that. Communication between people is influencing, changing and shaping our society. So, many many years later people on this planet may forget about what cultural shock means.

exactly. wherever you go to different countries there's a good and bad its difine on the story that you've experience during your vist or your living on that certain places. i love seeing your vlog about this you're so transparent in terms of your opinion. ☺

Another excellent China RU-vidr

GREAT video Nico! Can't wait to go back to Beijing in the future! :)

Always a thumb up!

The pros and cons are indeed truth. Thanks for this amazing and professional video, and looking forward to new videos to come! BTW, the image of Confucius was flipped :)

Lool you have much more experience than I do, so envy you! Looking forward to visit China once again.

Agree with everything you have mentioned

I love this channel so much!! I’m also living in Beijing:)

Nice! all of them are honest and frank opinions.

The western food in China is just like the Chinese food in the western countries. They have been localised to suit the taste of the locals.

Thank you for telling the truth about China.

Thank you for giving the people who haven’t been there a fair and objective opinion.

Good point

Hi Nico! I loved your last video on how things are going in Beijing. It would be great if you could post another one :)

thank you for your amazing work and showing to people from western countries how China really is

I like your videos

you miss the biggest pro is safety...

Traveling on holiday during this year 春节 was fine :D lol

Nico！Good to see you have those much comments！

I can't live without my phone I will die hahaha Great video, always enjoy watching your videos

Thank u for telling the truth

Really really enjoying watching your videos! We spent 2 months traveling around China about 12 years ago when they were getting ready for the Olympics and you could see it was changing a lot. There wasn’t that much signage or things in English and was very challenging sometimes but honestly we loved every minute. The people were so lovely and really hope we can back there one day. Amazing country! Xx

Great video! Agreed with all of them. Try to avoid travelling on Chinese public holidays at any cost, including Chinese new year ( 1 week before and 2 weeks after), 1-5 May, 1-7 Oct. This is because a lot of people do not take annual leaves so public holidays are their only choice.

A very interesting visiting experience in China !

Agree with most of these, apart from the Disneyfication criticism. I think it much every country in the world commercialises a lot of their tourist attractions. I'm yet to find anywhere in China that has been particularly spoiled by this. And yeah, Westernised food in China (and elsewhere in Asia) is normally always shocking, particularly their obsession with sweetening bread! But thankfully the food is so good here that I pretty much never crave any "home comforts". I could live off Chongqing food for the rest of my life and not get bored, let alone all the other regional food in China!

it would be interesting if you named the festivals, the foods, locations... as not everyone is knowledgeable about these things :) thanks very much

All the expats I know who are enjoying life in China are kind of like Nico.. adventurous, adaptable, non- judgemental , able to mingle to with the locals . A great channel, I like it 💖

the diversity of everything is how we find China is so charming!❤️recently we started our channel about our experiences here as an international couple! I really like to watch your video and learn:))加油～

Your video is so helpful as I am going to move in Nanjing as an International student, I already got admission for September intake 2020 but due to travel restriction, I am late to come.

on points

totally agreed with every single sentence you said

Agree!

Last November I went to Huangshan (the Yellow Mountain). I climbed all the way from the bottom to the summit, and by the time I arrived at the summit, it was already sunset time and I was exhausted. I spent the night on the summit and next morning when I woke up, my legs were so sore that even walking became a challenge. "Thank god we still have the cablecar" was my thought when I started walking down the stairs towards the cablecar entrance. You can't imagine how devastated I was when I found out the cablecar was put under maintenance starting exactly from that day. I had to walk down the stairs in my crooked footsteps, with no intention to appreciate the beauties surrounding me. That was probably the longest 3 (or 4?) hours of my life. I'm a 30 year old average guy, so I think I can speak for a lot of people in terms of energy or endurance. I do think that these kinds of constructions somewhat ruin the authenticity and even beauty of their surroundings, but I also think without these constructions, a journey might sometimes become difficult or even painful for some people. Anyway, nice video! 👍

As a Chinese I agree with your comments on China, but China's culture is not developing independantly. It was deeply influenced by the Buddhism which is from ancient India, and there are always trade contacts with Europe and Mid-Asia and it used to be the center of Asia so both Korea and Japan used chinese characters and learnt chinese culture for more than 1000 years.

I agree with you more than 90%. I reserve the 10% or less on air travelling. I did not fly that often to learn about it. Other than that you are spot on. Thanks for calling a spade a spade.

Interesting content! speaking of bread...even I lived in Melbourne for about 2 years I still can't accept the taste of bread. Just feel it's a bit...tasteless. Maybe I'm spoiled by the sweet breads in China lol Finally I realize that people in Westerns regard bread as main course but Asians mainly regard bread as dessert probably.

You like to walk in the countryside then you should visit the cliff village in Daliangshan , also you should try the Huashan plank walk , you won't easily forget that experiences .

the “ever” part is so true and cute 😂

Nico is a foodie for sure.

Nice video :) I thought i heard a northern twang in your accent...that was Bamburgh castle right?

According to my experience passenger planes often delay because of military trainings. Usually when the airforce is training in an area, civil planes have to wait until military planes leave. Some of the lines are usually on time while some others are usually late, the late ones are very likely passing a restricted airspace. (Well that's only part of the reason there are also other reasons like insufficient airfield capacity)

Great

Very well and honestly said. Love your point that the natural or cultural sites should remain original and authentic. I was shocked by the escalators outside and lifts inside Leifeng Pogoda in Hangzhou and really hate those shops that ruin the authenticity of these places. I think our aesthetics should be enhanced.

I, a Chinese, studying in the Netherlands, watch your videos about China to study English. I miss China everyday, especially the food. Haha! I like the good taste and high quality of your video. I can imagine that you put a lot of effort in shooting videos and organizing the content. Besides, could you please share the name or the link of the BGM you use in your videos? They sounds very rhythmical and inspiring. Thanks!

I think the idea of making places more accessible is a great idea, as my legs and feet aren't all that good, so I wouldn't be able to go to some places without lifts, escalators, etc. Also you need to remember there are those who can't walk at all.

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Very genuine comments on pros and cons. Another con I would say is the social manner.. but this varies among different demographic groups that's for sure.

Hey,Nico.Upload more vids, you will get millions of followers

Hi Nico, for once the weather hold out for you. Great video again. Cheers PS: Is UK ''driver license'' valid in China?

you may also travel to New Zealand especially south island if you love wild nature.

Your point about everything being done by phone is really a comparison of when you lived in the UK vs when you lived in China. At least here in the US, we do the exact same thing

I absolutely agree that more people should travel to see and experience other cultures. This way, they may be in for a surprise (or shock for that matter) that the real world outside their country may be very different from the dominant media representation of the countries they visit!

Hey Nico, you forget to talk about online shopping and amazing food delivery with thousands of choices (24/7) in China..

Parks are my favorite place to go with my parents and friends.

use your channel for my travel plan, sad thing is im chinese living abroad, lol........ that crowd pic you show actually heal me ten years ago , cos it feels like everything is so advanced, even moving is semi-automatic... and my opinion on chinese culture for western that is best describe by a western movie "star war"....... force is always balanced or like "taichi" in china

I like ur outfit by the way

Is that a picture of Sir David Attenborough? Very awesome person for sure.