N1, in a previous life I spent quite some time in the industrial heartlands of China.... you or I would find all the pollution etc. unbearable, which is why expats get paid so much out there. But if the choice is standing up to your knees in water planting rice from sunrise to sunset or working in those areas, I know what I would take!!
Once again, the western liberal idea myth some sort of Garden of Eden of bucolic joy out in the countryside of ANY emerging country in the world today is just that, a myth. In todays' world your country is either pre-industrial or industrial. Those that get 'left behind' in the countryside lose out big time, and every peasant the world over knows that and heads for the nearest city in fine pitch......
