The last workday of 2010 is over. Finally.
2010 ends with disappoints, disappointed with Beijing, with my job.
Over the past decade Beijing has grown more and more uninhabitable.
The number of automobiles in the capital has more than doubled since 2002, reaching over 4.5 million today and far outgrown road networks. Main roads are basically parking lots even at high noon, making traveling from one place to another an ordeal.
While car industry is booming, air quality is getting worse. (Beijing is notorious for that.) Besides car exhausts, “dirty industries” in the city and nearby provinces are major contributors. Thanks to “made in China”!
Despite the poor physical environment, house prices have tripled in the past 5 years. The population is swelling. There is nothing you can do without queuing: taking the subway; using an ATM; shopping at a supermarket and seeing a doctor… The list is endless; so is the queue. What’s more annoying is that there are some barbarians who don’t queue at all.
The megacity is eating away its residents’ lives day by day. Nevertheless, these factors cannot stop people from flocking in. Regional disparities in China are excessively large and resources are allocated to first tier cities like Beijing and Shanghai. As a result, manual laborers come along and college graduates remain here no matter how hard life is.
For my job, I’m very disappointed at my boss for not keeping her promise. Ai. Let it go…
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