One is an FAO at a very good university and the other is a foreign teachers who has been in Nanchang 4 years

Thanks for your post. If I may, I would like to address your posts, solely from personal experiences during my time here.

1. I will never trust an FAO, they will always embellish and obfuscate the truth, or basically admit nothing to the wai jiao. It is pretty much part of their job description, and as previously mentioned nanchang ren have a bad reputation even amongst other chinese. That is not good, no matter how it is dressed up.

2. And an FT who has stayed for four years in that one place, please. The guy is either a total skinflint, desperate to save every rmb, or a grovelling weasel in the pocket of some corrupt rat bastard nanchang ren FAO or other official. To stay 4 years in Nanchang requires either a very thick skinned personality, sheer laziness and or lack of ambition, or some mental disorder, or perhaps all of those.

Nanchang, like Changsha, is now just another xenophobic hellhole full of GW's, not worth bothering with at all.