Shenzen is one of the the most modern cities in China with good infrastructures. It is green but a bit dirty if compared to older cities like Beijing. It has the highest GDP in China and people from rural provinces flocked here for job opportunities and brought along many dirty habits. Many without proper education or skill turn to pickpocketing,begging or prostituitions.
Generally,the people work very hard for long hours,and few rest days. There are many tourist spots, outdoor recreational places like parks with sporting faclities and hills with paved path for climbers.It's not a bad place to work for a year or two.
Two major shortcomings; Difficulty in comm and dealing with the
government officials needs a lot of patience. We dubbed the immigration ,custom and security officers at SZX Airport as little emperrors. They change the procedures from time to time and they are supposed to be right all the time. It is so frustrating as most of them speak only PU TONG HUA (Mandarin). You stamp your passport every time in and out as crew.
Oherwise living here is much better than many places in developing countries and USD 5-6000 amonth takes you a long way. I am not flying for SZX Airlines but I found some clauses in the contract quite disturbing. You are expected to fly 72 hours amonth(from take off to landing and not chocks to chocks), anything less will be deducted from salary. The company has the right to fire you if you fall sick for more than 8 days a year. If you fail any COT, the company can fire you and you have to pay back the contract sum.
Ivan is right, read the contract carefully and know what u are into.
