I inteviewed with this "College" several years ago. I actually did the trip from Guangzhou to Luoding. I thought to myself that it perhaps it might be a nice countryside, quaint provincial city.

Well, it ain't. It's everything that the previous poster set forth except for one additional thing -- the city is prone to floods, like major floods, flooding, gullies of water cascading all over, etc., etc.

The school apartments are dank, moldy, not pleasant and straight out of a mortuary. There were only three-or-four foreign teachers on staff when I went to the interview and all declined to be interviewed "officially" by me in the presence of the Head of the English Department, at that time a woman in her 50's. Nonetheless, two of them did come to the hotel where I was staying to warn me off. In fact, this is a "runner" college as they told me. As they told me, the FT's come and go like flies during a sandstorm and don't even last as long.

It is not really a "college" but a technical drop-out school run by the local gov't for local students who can't make it into any form of higher education in the province or out of the province. I hate to say it but the dumbest of the dumbest. That was evident to me in the classes that I visited.

Additionally, the salary offered to the poor FT is quite low by Guangdong standards but it doesn't end there. The FT's will end up paying for his or her own electricity, his or own water, his or her own gas, and this can reduce the already low salary by several hundred RMB per month.

The FAO who recruited for the place was named "Allison" -- not her real name of course and she is pushy, pushy, pushy and inflexible. Nothing can be negotiated with this contract and it's a take-it-or-leave-it proposition.

It's just another one of those bottom-feeder places that is continuously on the prowl for new victims.