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I worked near PKU (Microsoft China) and lived in Chaoyang (Sanyuan Xiqiao/Tuanjiehu), but I really don't see how Haidian and Chaoyang were very different in AQI
by seanmcdirmid 2y ago
I worked near PKU (Microsoft China) and lived in Chaoyang (Sanyuan Xiqiao/Tuanjiehu), but I really don't see how Haidian and Chaoyang were very different in AQI. We ultimately left because my wife got pregnant and the air still wasn't clean enough for a baby. I remember every night in the winter when we decided to or not to go for a walk at night based on the current AQI reading (come on honey, its only 200 2.5 pmi tonight!), so I feel like it didn't really get better in the winter, or maybe I was just fixating on it given our circumstances.
- insane_dreamer 2y ago> come on honey, its only 200 2.5 pmi tonight! Totally relate. We also left because of our young kids; we couldn’t continue exposing them to that terrible air (we made the decision to leave in the summer 2016 but it took must a year). Also by then it had become crystal clear the direction China was going with Xi and l wanted not part of it or to raise my kids in that kind of society, even as foreigners. Ironically I came back to the US in time for Trump (it’s not nearly as bad of course but Trump 2.0 is heading that way).
- seanmcdirmid 2y agoI left just before the 2016 election, telling my Chinese colleagues that Trump wasn’t going to get elected. Sigh.