A person lying on the internet…who could have foreseen this?
I’ve been to most of these countries, they are all very nice. But like with anywhere it kinda depends on when and where you are, and you typically won’t get a real sense of the place unless you have a lot of time to travel.
The country side of Mongolia is beautiful in the warm season, I hear it’s pretty barren and freezing when it’s cold. About 50% of the population lives in Ulaanbaatar and it has a pretty bad issue with air pollution. It was very smoggy when I visited, and I hear it gets a lot worse in the winter season when it regularly has some of the worst air pollution in the world.
Yeah, a lot of wood and coal fires for heating and cooling. Probably wouldn’t be as much of an issue, but the city is nestled in a big valley that blocks the city from the wind so the smog doesn’t really have anywhere to dissipate.
That is the same dynamic with the mountains that makes the west coast of the US susceptible to higher air pollution, to say nothing of places like Mexico City. Not much coal that I’m aware of, but all of the exhaust has no where to go and just sits there.
Out west I noticed smoke would hug the ground more, on the continental part it rises more.
The only way you lived in North Korea and South Korea is if you defected, in which case you wouldn’t have also gone to China and Mongolia. My guess is that you’re just a racist European.
I have a mongolian friend, he said it was a choice between a dystopian city or the vast empty nature. I guess if you like nature it could be good but the density is sooooo low there are places where you wont see civilization for hundreds of kilometers.
The winters are super hardcore though. I forget numbers, but it gets really really cold, worse than the upper midwest of the US and central canada in temperature, although I think they get less snow than many of us.
Yeah i live in sweden and every time i complain about the weather he just shows me ulaanbaatar and its either like -35c during winter or +35c during summer
Yeah sweden is really mild cause of the gulf stream so even tho i live arround latitude 58(kodiak for reference, or kuujjuaq is a canadian example i found) winters usually dont drop below minus 15-20C and summers at best go up to 30C.
I’m definitely going to visit next year … just putting away money for now. I’ll see if I can add Kunming to the list, thanks!
I can’t wait to eat more food. My Cantonese is “okay” but my Mandarin is garbage … I’m gonna spend the next year or so watching dramas and stuff to catch up!
Remember, if you order the mushroom hot pot you have to wait a bit before eating it. Maybe you already know this but we didn’t and gave our server a heart attack. 😆 Fortunately we had only taken a couple bites and neither of us experienced ill effects.
I have lived in all five of these countries and I can confirm, it’s all true. Especially china. It just sucks cock.
That’s interesting, what was Mongolia like and were you there for specific work opportunities or just because you liked moving around?
Edit: hang on… North Korea…
A person lying on the internet…who could have foreseen this?
I’ve been to most of these countries, they are all very nice. But like with anywhere it kinda depends on when and where you are, and you typically won’t get a real sense of the place unless you have a lot of time to travel.
The country side of Mongolia is beautiful in the warm season, I hear it’s pretty barren and freezing when it’s cold. About 50% of the population lives in Ulaanbaatar and it has a pretty bad issue with air pollution. It was very smoggy when I visited, and I hear it gets a lot worse in the winter season when it regularly has some of the worst air pollution in the world.
They heat with coal stoves, their cities are like 18th century london.
Yeah, a lot of wood and coal fires for heating and cooling. Probably wouldn’t be as much of an issue, but the city is nestled in a big valley that blocks the city from the wind so the smog doesn’t really have anywhere to dissipate.
That is the same dynamic with the mountains that makes the west coast of the US susceptible to higher air pollution, to say nothing of places like Mexico City. Not much coal that I’m aware of, but all of the exhaust has no where to go and just sits there.
Out west I noticed smoke would hug the ground more, on the continental part it rises more.
The only liar I see is you. Go away.
The only way you lived in North Korea and South Korea is if you defected, in which case you wouldn’t have also gone to China and Mongolia. My guess is that you’re just a racist European.
Either they started with North Korea and escaped or they ended their tour with NK and they’re still there.
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Must be the first one. This is a bona fide DPRK escapist
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Y’all are stupid, the answer is so obvious: he’s Kim Jong Un!
Why would someone do that? go on the internet and tell lies?
Not sure if you’re serious or not but the reason for it is that it can be pretty fun at times
I fucked up the quote
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-go-on-the-internet-and-tell-lies
You can visit North Korea. They assign a guy to you to make sure you only see the approved stuff.
I have a mongolian friend, he said it was a choice between a dystopian city or the vast empty nature. I guess if you like nature it could be good but the density is sooooo low there are places where you wont see civilization for hundreds of kilometers.
The winters are super hardcore though. I forget numbers, but it gets really really cold, worse than the upper midwest of the US and central canada in temperature, although I think they get less snow than many of us.
Yeah i live in sweden and every time i complain about the weather he just shows me ulaanbaatar and its either like -35c during winter or +35c during summer
How extreme is it for you? Because it gets -30°C in the winter here, and 30°C in the summer here, in my part of Canada.
Yeah sweden is really mild cause of the gulf stream so even tho i live arround latitude 58(kodiak for reference, or kuujjuaq is a canadian example i found) winters usually dont drop below minus 15-20C and summers at best go up to 30C.
i thought where i lived in Tasmania was bad, it gets to 1c in winter and up to 28c in Summer in the part where i live
Want to switch? We get blizzards in april sometimes. Also, tons of tornadoes.
I watched a heartwarming short of a guy getting stopped by the police in Mongolia for using a wind sail powered horizontal bike thingy.
2 locals also showed up on a moped
Top comment:
“It’s nice to see all 5 people in Mongolia meet up to see how OP’s bike works”
Oulan-Bator looks like your first SimCity game when you had 10yo and just put random coal plant there and there.
Kinda like Shadowrun.
🥵🥵 how much does it? 🥵🥵
Everyone sucks, no one gets sucked
Damn I better get a ticket to china then
Cool story
I’m ethnically Chinese but never been there, well only the airport … but why’s it suck so much?
I know people that wanna go back due to cost of living but I heard housing isn’t cheap neither (depending on where you live perhaps?)
It doesn’t.
Housing is extremely affordable compared to here in the U.S. So is food, transportation and healthcare.
I highly recommend Kunming
I’m definitely going to visit next year … just putting away money for now. I’ll see if I can add Kunming to the list, thanks!
I can’t wait to eat more food. My Cantonese is “okay” but my Mandarin is garbage … I’m gonna spend the next year or so watching dramas and stuff to catch up!
Remember, if you order the mushroom hot pot you have to wait a bit before eating it. Maybe you already know this but we didn’t and gave our server a heart attack. 😆 Fortunately we had only taken a couple bites and neither of us experienced ill effects.
Yo seriously? I love hot pot so that was going to be inevitable. Thanks 😂!
How did you end up seeing the airport and only the airport?
lol I was on my way to Vietnam … only had a 3 hour layover and didn’t plan on leaving the airport.
I have read this comment therefore I also can confirm that everything stated is 100% facts.
Wait, Mongolia will think I’m cool because I’m 300 lbs? Dope.
I’m going to head there rn and fucking lift the front end of some vehicles and stuff.