re: Would you take $150,000/yr to be a professional white person in China?

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things in china are a hell of a lot more expensive than they are here....and the cities are exceedingly shitty places to be...

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I mean certain things are, like cars and electronics, but food and rent, not really. Of course it depends on how nice of apartments you live in, but I lived in Beijing for a few years, and never paid more than $600 a month for rent, and I lived mostly in nice neighborhoods. Granted Shanghai is more expensive, but I'd say you'll find cities way more expensive than it in the US. The things that are more expensive in China are extravagancies, like cars, jewelry, and electronics. Food and rent is cheap compared to much of the US.

If I were in my mid-20's and single, I'ld be all the hell over that.

-The USD is trading ~ 1:6 against the Chinese Yuan, this means shite there is dirt fricking cheap in American Dollars. In other words, you would be making (roughly) in China the equivalent of $900,000/year here (depending on where you live in China).

- If you work outside the US and spend 2 weeks or less on US soil, you pay zero US taxes (no idea on taxes in China)

Keep half (spend, savings account, whatever), put the other half into something that provides a decent return. After 10 years you can come back to the US and retire on your investments. Thirty-five and retired doesn't suck.

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That's 18,098,025.00 Yen.

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Too bad they don't use Yen. I swear the only differences 90% of America know about China and Japan is China is the one with a shite load of people, a big wall, and is communist, while Japan was the one who was nuked, has kamikaze pilots, and has weird sexual fetishes.

You forgot about karate and the yakuza

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Easy there Douchington, not all of us have had our eyes opened up to Eastern cultures like you.

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Well, Captain count, if I said France is known for it's pasta and a city with a massive ancient colosseum, I'm sure that most posters here would call me an idiot. I regularly see ignorance on that scale here, and just have to shake my head and say nothing.

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You forgot about karate and the yakuza

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I really don't think most Americans would know the difference. If I said Kung Fu and the triads were from Japan, I doubt most would bat an eye. I was tempted to write sushi, but even that I wasn't confident enough to say that most Americans know the difference.

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(no idea on taxes in China)

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If I remember correctly my company had to pay 45% on me after 183 days.

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Most people here aren't into Asian cultures enough to know that there is a difference between Japan and China. It's akin to asking someone from Turkey about the difference between North and South La.

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No, it's not at all. China and Japan have the second and third largest GDP in the world. Over 1.5 billion people live in these countries. Louisiana is 4.5 million people. No one outside of the United States gives a shite about Louisiana. China and Japan are so large and have so much power that they're hard to ignore and we need to understand them. With the internet, I really don't think most of society has an excuse to not understand the differences between Japan and China than we should with the difference between Germany and France.

Renmibi