Firstly, with much due respect to the very polite responses of Mr. Cratchett, as follows,

1. The taxi fare into Guangzhou proper from the Primary School is not 50 RMB. It never has been and it will never been. From my own personal experience, with receipts in hand, as follows :

From the Primary School to anywhere in Tian He, Guangzhou, minimum RMB 600.00. USD 100.00

From the Primary School to Guangzhou East Train Station, minimum RMB 700.00, USD 125.00

From the Primary School to Guangzhou Airport, minimum RMB 400.00, USD 80.00.

2. The Chinese students are indeed cute but very spoilt. The Chinese teachers are not cute and they can be downright vicious. If they do not like you, they will write letters of complaint to the administration and you will be summoned.

3. The foreign overseers are venomous, dishonest, manipulating and generally disgusting. If you ever wondered what a guard in prison might be like, then there is your answer. They are the number one cause of foreign teachers running away in the middle of the night.

4. I do not know when or where Mr. Cratchett lived there. These days, the foreign teachers are housed in miserable dormitory like accommodation, with squat toilets, bunk beds, no cooking facilities and bathing facilities down the hall, shared with Chinese students.

The location sucks, there is no other way to put it. But the worst part of the gig is the foreign local managers. They are either insane, drunken, strung out on drugs, sexual perverts, criminals truly in their own countries, or any and all of the preceding.

As for the other school mentioned by Mr. Cratchett, it is a well known hell hole.