Seasons Park (海晟名苑 ) is at Dongcheng (东城区). For house searching, I found my house thru. www.5i5j.com. However, you can also try others like century 21. There are a lot of agent. You can find one easily. You have no worry about reliability because all the agency fee is being paid by the landlord, not the Tendent. (different to HK). When you sign the contract, the landlord must shown you the legal 屋契 to proof of his ownership. The contract should printed with his ID, name, address/ size of the flat....etc.
I will giving birth on 10/3, still have 2 weeks to go.
thanks for your links, it's useful!
i am now keep on searching house in front of the computer.....so tired!
I found it's not easy to find more HK mum mum stay in Beijing.
Agreed. I couldn't make any friend during my stay in Beijing. Approaching stranger is not the style of HK people....but you can easily making friend with foreigners like Aust., American....etc. hahahha
Suggest you searching for house thru. at least 2 agent, so you can making cost/ service comparison. Sometime, the agent may cheating you so that they can making extra agency fee....you know what i meant. But for the landlord in Beijing (per my experience), they are nice/ sincere. You can request for any addition fixtures (e.g. oven/ water dispenser/ bed...etc) as this is the normal in beijing.
1 thing to remind you. Tape water in Beijing can't be drank nor cooking. Because it's hard water (too much minerals), it's harmful to our kiney. All people in beijing are drinking bottle water (mineral / distilled water). Most landlord would provide water dispenser...
good luck in your site searching...
Is it good to live in 东城区? I am searching this district as well. Where is your husband's office? My husband said there are very serious traffic jam , so it's not easy to find a good place (if it's far always from his office)which can provide all we need like supermarket, swimming pool, gym, hospital, easy transport, good and complete enviorment...etc
Here is the map of Beijing.
http://www.zhongzi.net/map/beijingditu.htm
Because my husband is working at chaoyang, we decided to live at Dongcheng. It's just 20 mins. walking distance from our home to his office.
In fact, traffic jam is common in Beijing because all the developer are trying to finish their project by the end of 07's (because of Olympic). Contruction making traffic jam everywhere.
Sorry I don't know what sites is close to your husband office. You may call the agent and pre-arrange of the site visit before your arrival.
How long will you stay in Beijing?
You mean the trip to Beijing? 5 days only
I know many sites close to my husband office,but they are quite expensive just because near the CDB. So i just want to understand more and compare with other choices.
my husband also working at chaoyang-----朝外大街!
so how long will you live in Beijing? any planning?
Oh, I thought you'd gonna to stay for a longer time. Actually, I haven't yet plan to work until child is 1 yr. old. It all depends. I planned to return to Beijing by early Dec-06 and we'll living there for at least 2 yrs.
For Seasons park, the avg. rental is RMB$12k/ mth for 1200-1400 sq ft. There are a recretation ctr. in the estate and it's a isolated from the main street. So, it's less dusty and good for living. Moreover, security is good there. Perhaps you may can arrange for site visit for comparison.
In fact, we like Park Avenue. However, it's too expensive and the site won't be finished until end of 06's.
I don't know when you're gonna to re-locate to Beijing. Per the Beijingese, there may be snowing during Dec till end-Feb. If you planned to move to there during that time frame, you may need to get your boy well prepared for the winter. Do you have 加濕機 at home?
Acturally we just want an vacation in Beijing becuase i bring my son too,it's not easy to visit all the sites i like this time.i will go again myself in Jan or Feb to find an apartment, then re-locate to Beijing in March.
My husband like the area around朝陽公園, I quite like建外SOHO. My husband's friend said he found a playgroup for his son(19months old)in there, cost $10000 for 60hurs.
yes, i have a 加濕機already!
Hahah, I haven't yet do any searching for studying because he has not yet borned. For bilingual lesson, it's worth to pay $160/ hr. However, if it's not, it seems too much.
I like the place around 朝陽公園 as place is more greenful and more residential likes.
I'm feeling a bit nervous about giving birth. I choose 開刀 instead of giving birth naturally. I still have 1 week to go and 'm starting to worry / think about the process....hahaha. It's a bit horrible of taking a baby from my tummy. Does your husband 陪產? How did he feel? My husband will 陪產 and I don't know if it's good or bad.......
Well, every people feel worry about giving birth. In my case, i choose giving born naturally, but after 15 hours painful, my doctor said he prefer me to 開刀, because i only開了2度and my son抬高了頭！
My husband has 陪產when i 陣痛, but he cannot go inside the 手術室 because i have 全身ma醉. 你是半身ma醉? If yes, don't worry, my friend's husband said he can see nothing until the baby is born! My husband afraids of boring (cause he know the painful can last for over 10 hours), so he brought his走老袋too, ther are cd player, noodel, bread, book and camera! The point is if he stay with you, you will feel more comfortable and no more nervous. He should stay with u unless he afarid of blood.
Acturally the 手術only take around 30mins, my baby come out after 15 mins only! When i wakeup, i just think it's too easy to give born !haha!
And the 傷口is very small, it's amazing!
DOnt' think too much of giving born, just enjoy this week and do everything you like to do (like sleep a lot or go to cinema!!), after baby born, you will give all the attention to him/her law!
Background:
Both myself and my hubby had the experience of station in BJ before, we have been staying there for a few years before move back to HK.
Now, my baby girl is 1yr 4 months already and we're planning to go back as per some good opportunities came up recently.
Issue:
I've got a very reliable indo maid in HK to take care my girl so that I can travel frequently without worry. I really want to bring her to BJ to babysit my girl.
I'm willing to pay her the HK salary + travel visa. But anyone tell me, any other indo maid work in BJ since I only know philipino maids are available there. any chance for her to know indo maids or even philipino maids during weekends. I'm concerning her personal life. Any succesfully case of bring the indo maid to BJ to live together?
hi! monkeymei
For our family, we decided not to bring our Philiphino maid to BJ. The reason is i know it's not easy to get the working visa for her, also it's may spend a lot of money. Second is we are afraid that she cannot 適應 and communicate with others. And the Ayi in bj only cost around $1000. Also, i will not work anymore in BJ.
But i know some agency help people to get the visa for the maid to work in China.
When will you move to BJ?
thanks for your feedbacks.
still under consideration whether accept the offer. I'll move to Bj by end of Nov if I take the offer.
yes, I also concern the personal life of my indo maid. Will she able to manage the culture and environment difference? On the other hand , I also concern whether I can find a reliable maid. We've got a part-time maid when we were staying in BJ before. She's very reliable, she got our keys and she came to do clean-up when we went out to work or travel. But she's a bit too old for taking care a kid, plus, we want a maid to live with us together. So that, we don't need to worry whenever we work OT / travel for biz trip.
I'm so scared of having someone unreliable since my apartment and baby will be on her hand whenever we go to work. BIG HEADACHE.
Still thinking la.
Appleng,
I heard Telford kindergarten already set-up their branch in BJ, did you hear about this, any comments on their playgroup or billingual nursery classes?
you'r welcome!
Before i want to bring my maid too. but i worry about the language. How the philipino maid communication to others ? Because we are new in BJ, i need the maid to tell us where to buy or shop etc. So in my case i think if i hire a 地道ayi, she can help me a lot!
For the kindergarten, i did many research before, i found these three billingual school look good.
美格
http://www.megkids.com/html/2004-9-4/200494163208.htm
二十一世紀
http://www.kid21shiji.org/index.asp
小牛津
http://www.oxfordbaby.org.cn/index.htm
But i really like an international kindergarten called 3e(http://www.3eik.com/pages/welcome.html), the school is really beautifull! But the tutor fee is around $100000 per year!!! I think i need to arrange a visit of all the target before decide.
Where will you live in Beijing? we may move there in March, just after the winter. So many thing need to arrange and think. But it's so good to know you and kimchanmy, so i can understand more how's the life in BJ.
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