D_Alex comments on Teaching English in Shanghai - Less Wrong

13 Post author: ShanghaiTEFLer 02 November 2012 11:13AM

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Comment author: gwern 03 November 2012 03:54:18AM 4 points [-]

Or does the pollution permeate the entire city?

Where exactly would this unpolluted air indoors be coming from?

Comment author: D_Alex 05 November 2012 06:46:43AM 0 points [-]

Possibly from the air intakes located on the roof of the buildings. Pollution is much worse on street level than 20 stories up. At least in Jakarta, where I lived for 6 months.

Comment author: gwern 05 November 2012 03:20:22PM 0 points [-]

IIRC, the US Embassy's controversial pollution readings were being taken from their rooftop, and in photos of Beijing you can see the smog in the sky - so the rooftop pollution may still be pretty bad.

Comment author: ShanghaiTEFLer 05 November 2012 10:10:36AM 0 points [-]

If only. Chinese builders do not believe in central air conditioning. Every room gets its own damned air conditioner. Unless your budget is much, much greater than any teacher's will ever be.