
I get asked where I live a lot. People don’t seem to realize that Chuxiong is a major player in the international scene. Okay it’s not at all, it’s a small, relatively poor Chinese city really far away from the rest of those good Chinese cities. Chuxiong can only look at it’s thriving neighboring cities (Kunming, Dali, Lijiang) and be jealous, because there this nothing to do here except “san bu”.
Here’s a little comparison (via Google Earth):
|
|
MI
|
KM
|
|
Chuxiong
|
0
|
0
|
|
Kunming
|
79
|
127
|
|
Laos
|
173
|
278
|
|
Vietnam
|
180
|
290
|
|
Myanmar
|
206
|
332
|
|
Shangri-La
|
240
|
386
|
|
Tibet
|
297
|
478
|
|
India
|
787
|
1,267
|
|
Hong Kong
|
791
|
1,273
|
|
Beijing
|
1,340
|
2,157
|
|
Tokyo
|
2,391
|
3,848
|
|
Paris
|
5,390
|
8,674
|
|
San Francisco
|
7,217
|
11,615
|
|
Boston
|
7,777
|
12,516
|
How far to Oakland?
I dunno, probably 7,218 miles.