Smitty Two wrote:
In article ,
"DGDevin" wrote:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ng-tower-China
-Amazing-pictures-13-storey-block-flats-toppled-over.html

I have a friend who moved to Beijing about 5 years ago. He and his
wife bought an apartment in a building like that. He tells me all
kinds of stories. Tradesmen over there aren't licensed. When you buy
an apartment there, it isn't finished. It's just a skeleton.

So they had plumbers, electricians, bricklayers, etc. come in to
finish the place. Almost everything that was done, he had them rip it
out and do it over. One guy had never seen a level. The plumber
joined drain pipes with a T instead of a Y. Wiring and plumbing is
typically installed on the surface of the walls, not inside.

The bathrooms are just a hole in the middle of the floor that serves
as a toilet and a drain for the non-enclosed shower. When he moved in
there wasn't even a door on the bathroom. He told the realtor he
wanted one. Came back the next day and they had put in a clear glass
door.

There's no toilet facilities provided for workers, either, so when he
moved into this brand new, upscale building and had occasion to go on
the roof one day, he found about 200 piles of human ****.

And the Chinese spit, all day, everywhere. He was talking to a workman
just inside the door to his apartment. The guy had to spit, and in
order to be polite and not spit in my friend's place, he opened up
the door and spit out into the carpeted hallway.

This is normal. The Chinese Govt. made a point to encourage folk not to spit
prior to the Olympics.

It's a different culture.