I now live in Baoding, Hebei province in China.
Situated 45 minutes by train/3h by car south of the capital Beijing, this city holds 1 million residents, a handful of Japanese and Korean foreigners, and now 1 Western expert.
I do seriously believe I am the only “laowai” Westerner around here, because I do get the stares, and kids point their fingers at me in shock and shout “foreigner”!