[JulieN]

I lived in Wenjiang for 5 months last year and i’m now living in Xindu, north of Chengdu, and I would say that Wenjiang compared to other areas outside of Chengdu, is really great. It’s got a nice area around the eastern exit of the university SWUFE, with small shops, restaurants and street food, and you can take a bus to carefour, Itayokado and a newly build mall. There’s not a big foreign community except for the few exchange student at the university and the kindergarten I worked at, so people stare a lot, but a generally really nice and helpful.

There’s not a lot going on during the week so you need to learn how to entertain yourself. They have a lot of different bars, a single “club” and we even found a place to play pool. Compared to living in Chengdu it might seem a little dull, but we learned to appreciate having a nice quiet suburb to come home to after a long weekend in Chengdu.

There is an amusement park in Wenjiang called Flowerland which is definitely worth a visit. It’s got loads of roller coasters and is a cool place to walk around in. Be sure to go while its still somewhat hot though, otherwise a lot of the attractions might be closed.

We found no open space park areas of any sort, but a walk along the river was usually quite nice.

From where we lived we didn’t need to go a lot of places so the bus to carefour and Chengdu was more than enough. It runs frequently and costs 2 yuan all the way to Chengdu.

I have only good things to say about Wenjiang and if you have any further questions just let me know 🙂

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