New Home: Iron West

From now on living on the "Iron West corridor of industry culture". Tiexi, translated Iron West, is the name of the quarter where we`ve settled for probably the next two years. So far Shenyang appears to be like many other big Chinese cities: a noisy, dusty, crowded, air polluted huge construction site. At least there`s fewer traffic jams as in Beijing, as far as I can tell after the first two weeks. Definitely fewer Westerners - even when walking through the city half the day you encounter maybe one or two non-chinese faces. Which so far appears to be a good thing - the Shenyangers seem to be more open-minded, patient and friendly to foreigners than what I´ve experienced in bigger cities like Shanghai and Beijing so far. Or maybe I´ve just become a people person.....