I didn't say China was all roses, did I? Again, I said there is a balance. It's not all good, but it is not all bad either. You would understand this if you weren't so reliant on sweeping generalisations to make your "points".

So you were good at languages years and years ago, but not at science, so by that ethos you decided to just get your gcses and forget about a-levels at sixth form? What route did you take to university? You didn't seem to know what an access course was when I brought it up as my route to university all those months ago, and in fact were one of the ones championing using my attendance at a college to sit this course as a method of implying I hadn't attended university. So what exactly was your route to uni if you believed sixth form to be for GWs only, hmmm?

It depends where you go in Italy. I lived in calabria and it was quite cheap by European standards.

Yes, you can find those things in any country, that was my point, well done for catching up with my thought process... The point is yes they exist, but you have the choice whether to seek them out or not. If you choose to do so and end up meeting shady characters, you can't then apply thier lifestyle and personality to every single Chinese person, as you do with your sweeping generalizations.

As said before, whilst in Taizhou I mainly frequented Lucky's bar or Passby bar. Normally the latter as it was usually just my friends and I in there, we got on well with the bar staff and they let us have control of the music. Towards the end of my time in Taizhou a friend from the UK opened a western style sports bar next door to Passby, so we went there too. There were bars where prostitution was rife, we tended to avoid them. It is possible to do so.

My going to China had nothing to do with feminism. You really ought to stop using word as, to quote Inigo Montoya, it does not mean what you think it means. I went to experience teaching in Asia, to see if I could take any of the Asian methods of teaching and incorporate it in to the western style. I went to be a better and more experienced teacher and to provide quality education to the students in my care. We all know the sordid reasons behind your choice to go there, evidence of which is littered across this forum.