{"id":6488,"date":"2015-08-19T04:50:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T10:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2015-08-19T04:50:54","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T10:50:54","slug":"what-tips-and-tricks-have-you-learned-that-have-made-it-easier-to-live-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6488","title":{"rendered":"What tips and tricks have you learned that have made it easier to live in China?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.quora.com\/What-tips-and-tricks-have-you-learned-that-have-made-it-easier-to-live-in-China\">doing life in Beijing<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Here are some of my life hacks, acquired from 17 years of living here:<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Get an e-bike. They&#8217;re cheap (RMB 2500-3000 for a perfectly good one, a fair bit more if you buy the lithium ion battery but I do think it&#8217;s worth it, if for no other reason than it&#8217;s light and you can carry it up to your digs to charge without fear that it&#8217;ll get swiped), cost virtually nothing to charge up (a fraction of a kilowatt hour), and they let you avoid the maddening traffic of the bigger cities. They pay for themselves in virtually no time. Get the attached fur-lined glove thingies for the winter, a pair of serviceable chaps to keep your legs warm, and wear a helmet.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Also get a bicycle. Chinese cities are a bit too big to explore entirely on foot, and riding around in subways\/buses\/taxis you miss all the wonderful street-level detail. A bike&#8217;s a great compromise. A wise man once said of China, &#8220;Every day, you see something you don&#8217;t see everyday.&#8221; Make sure you keep your eyes open.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>doing life in Beijing: Here are some of my life hacks, acquired from 17 years of living here:&nbsp;&nbsp;Get an e-bike. They&#8217;re cheap (RMB 2500-3000 for a perfectly good one, a fair bit more if you buy the lithium ion battery but I do think it&#8217;s worth it, if for no other reason than it&#8217;s light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6489,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}