>>2877985
Make sure to get a VPN or two set up. Get Alipay and Wechat set up for payments and various stuff as well. Other than that, it's like any other first world country. Just cheaper and safer.

>>2877985
HPV vaccine

>>2877985
To prepare? Study Chinese now. Go all in. Also go to the gym and get in shape, get a job if you dont have money etc

>>2878011
>>2878035
>>2878036
But the most important question has been ignored. Will it be like an anime?

>>2878040
They don't make noises like the japs but it's close

>>2878040
It will be like an isekai
China is a retarded bug hive and you will struggle to take it seriously
Your cheat power is being white and being able to leave

>>2878011
>china
>first world
wew lad

>>2878054
this

>>2877985
which city, this is important

>>2878065
Chengdu

>>2878176
>arrive in Chengdu
>book accommodation through baidu maps
>sorry no foreigners
>refund and wechat the next place
>capsule hotel
>they tell me foreigner ok price 140 rmb
>i send him a screenshot in chinese showing the price is 18rmb
>he mumbles some shit about nationalism
Other than that it was alright. Nightlife is a little bit cucked but still viable. Met a nice girl at the arcade and we still keep in touch

>>2878176
get used to spicy food and heat in summer
I assume you are going to Sichuan uni, it has a pretty good Chinese teaching department, but the on-campus accomodation sucks. You should get an apartment off-campus they are very cheap. Canteen food is good.
have an actual plan to study and practice Chinese outside your classes, make Chinese friends, don't just fall in with other loser expats and foreigners, do something with the year instead of frittering it away

>>2878186
filtered, you should have booked through meituan where you can filter for "takes foreigners"
nightlife is cucked because it's catered to gays

Test

>>2878208
Will it be lonely? Can you make friends easily in China? My purpose main purpose for going is to leave my comfort zone for a while and experience something new. I've been pretty isolated for a while now.

Test

>>2878240
I've only been to china for 2 weeks, with some chinese friends, and I felt alienated and kinda frustrated. Mostly from how it's tricky to uncover the truth there. People cover it to make things convenient for themselves, and they think they're doing you a favor by not sharing the truth with you too. Like being told to go somewhere or do something without an explanation. That can get to you, so prepare for it.

If you've already been isolated, you should be ok. You might enjoy the small talk like "where are you from? why did you come here? etc" at first, but depending on your character, that could also drive you nuts after this exact sequence of conversation happens with randoms regularly.

>>2878240
>Will it be lonely? Can you make friends easily in China?
Depends where you live. I spent two years in a tier-2 city and it was by far the easiest place to make friends that I've ever lived precisely because everyone is lonely. Since there aren't many foreigners in China you get something like the experience of small town life where everyone knows each other while living in a metropolis. If you live in a tier-999 even better, having no waiguoren to interact with is the way to speedrun Mandarin fluency.

>>2878248
Were your friends cool, or were they basic? Just eat at restaurants, play phone games and cards, and do chinese-normie stuff?

>>2878251
I made friends with other expats. Some of them were cool, others were weird. Misfits are overrepresented among expats but they come in all varieties. If you want to make friends with locals you'll need strong Mandarin to really build a relationship. Most Chinese are curious about foreigners and they tend to be more outgoing than other East Asian cultures so it shouldn't be difficult if you can bridge the communication gap. PC gaming is big there. Dota2 and League of Legends were extremely popular when I was there but that was a decade ago. Alcohol is a good social lubricant like anywhere else but be careful not to get shitfaced, there's a strong stigma around alcoholism and you'll lose face if you can't hold your liquor.

>>2878208
in the end i paid 400 rmb for 12 nights and had own room so it was worth it
"takes foreigners" is a meme, only mid or high end will write that

>>2878240
in chengdu it's ez. you have to go for it yourself though. have hobbies and do shit and you'll be fine

Expect your university and classes to be filled with africans, jeets, arabs, and other undesirables

kek

>>2878240
it's not very easy because people view friendships as transactional, especially those with foreigners
I had a lot of acquaintances and people who wanted me to come out drinking but not many people I could actually get along with

>>2878319
Sichuan uni actually has a good amount of white people, Peking and Tsinghua have very few thirdies, but I agree the rest have a lot

>>2878324
>it's not very easy because people view friendships as transactional, especially those with foreigners
>I had a lot of acquaintances and people who wanted me to come out drinking but not many people I could actually get along with
for me guiyang was like this but chengdu was better