but whatever happened to unity among laowai? Granted, there are oddballs, but I would always get homesick and crave a buddy from the UK to talk to when despairing, pissed off or whatever. It's not much fun to be alone, breathing in coal dust every day, and then just drinking crappy beer in your crappy flat every night alone....or worse being dragged to KTVS by Chinese.

No, an expat bar is needed, if at least, just to get out of lalaland of everything is perfect in the PRC mentality....