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Well, I tried for the last 3 years to live with the incredible inconveniences of China, but after 3 years of realizing more and more how stupid it is to even permit such inconveniences which could be resolved with some very simple pre-planning, I've finally had enough. I'm making a list here for everyone to see, so you know about some of the things that you might expect when you come to China if you're not already here. Or at least, you'll be aware of those things that are inconvenient for me, if not for yourself
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 1. tile floors that get dirty easily and the practice of wearing plastic slippers inside the house - very annoying, because one feels as though he is living in constant dirt and every time you come into the house, you have to not only remove one pair of shoes, but put on a new pair of sandals. Why can't we just have carpet?? Anyway, I finally bought one.

 2. Bathrooms with no bathtub. Ridiculous. showers tend to spray water right onto the bathroom floor, and that means that it can easily splash under the door into the rest of the house, and since people wear plastic slippers everywhere, and since the floor is dirty from being walked on during the day, that means that you have to wear plastic slippers in the bathroom too, but you can't just wear your regular plastic slippers, because then you'll be tracking water everywhere after you take a shower, so again, you have to take off one pair of slippers and put on another pair just for taking a shower.

 3. Washing machines that don't have output hoses that hook up directly to waste water pipes. Chinese people tend to drop the waste water hose into the bathroom, which has a water drain right there in the middle of the floor. So disgusting.

 4. No good electric dryers.

 5. cardboard thin doors (and walls and everything else for that matter)

6. bars around windows that look like prison bars. How ugly!

7. No such thing as home security systems. I know these guys have the technology for it. Why hasn't anyone done this yet?

8. Electricity payment system - in a large number of houses, you have to re-charge a card with electricity credits, and when your credits are low, you're electricity just cuts off and then you have to go put the card in again and it will leave you with 10 credits left, and then you have to go buy more electricity. It really screws people over if they're running a computer when the electricity goes off. Can't they think of a more efficient, less annoying way to do it?

9. Water payment. Some lady comes knocking at my door at 7:30 a.m. yelling - water payment!! water payment!! water payment!! water payment!! until i answer and pay her. no, wait, that was gas. and i didn't answer. and i didn't pay. .. but water's the same concept. retarded.

10. No water spickets on the outside of apartments. These people don't believe in flower gardens.

11. large sheets of metal posing as roofing. They put these huge sheets of metal on the top of the apartment and call it a roof, which they suppose keeps the rain out, and they don't even nail it down or anything - they put bricks on top of it to keep it from blowing away when the wind comes by. And mine aren't metal, they're plastic and probably 10 years old, and they have holes in them, which means that water gets into the ceiling beams, and then leaks through my ceiling, and gets all over my kitchen. Haven't these people heard of shingles??!!

Anyway, that's a small list of the horde of annoyances that this country (China) has brought me while I've been here. I'll write more when I have the time and am annoyed enough. Hope everyone enjoyed!!