Dear Dizzy Spells,

Thank you so much for your post.

My stomach curdles when I see the devil come back from the dead. So, they lost their only Dutchman hippy who had been with them less than one year. And now they have no one and they will find no one.

Firstly, they DROPPED their salaries again. The Dutchman hippy trash was making 9,000 RMB for 22 hours per week. Now they will pay RMB 7,000 for 24 hours per week.

Yup, that is that trashy drunken FAO again. Let's see what victims if any he will find now. No one stays and everyone runs. An abusive, mean-spirited, unfriendly atmosphere, in a city where winter is 7 months long (like - 30 C. from end of October until mid-March), natives who can be friendly but can only NOT be very friendly at all. The apartment(s) suck, really suck. Oh, yes, you MAY get paid on time and then again you may not but in any case they will take taxes off your salary but NEVER, EVER SEND THE MONEY to the Tax Department.

Huludao is NOT cheap -- don't let them give you that speech at all. It's a captive audience because it's a military city and an oil producing city -- so they charge (meaning the merchants) whatever they can get away with. AND SPECIAL PRICES for the foreigners.

If you want to ruin your life and if you want to feel like you are in prison, or in a labor camp, or worse yet, LIKE YOU ARE LIVING IN NORTH KOREA, then this is the perfectly PRIMITIVE NEANDERTHAL place for you.

If you are a drug addict or if you are a drunk, then this place is even more perfectly suited for you.

You will be lonely and miserable in your personal life and you will be abused and run over in your professional life.

Everyone but everyone runs from this place -- sometimes after one year, sometimes after one day, sometimes they just never show up.

You want to know what hell on earth is? Then this place is perfect for you.