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Sorry for necroing this thread but I’m really craving some Magic!
I know there are many stores to play at but sadly my working hours don’t allow for friday night magic anymore.
Is there anybody out there who is playing and interested in a cozy Gathering? I loved to play at pubs back home, maybe we can find a place here, or a tea house, or somebody’s huge appartment?
I brought quite a few decks, have four Commander decks, modern and standard I can also join but maybe not hand out much to others. And I love drafting with fun people.
Maybe we can start something here?
In general I would agree with all of the above.
Chengdu people are very friednly, especially to foreigners. I lived in Harbin for a year and it’s a huge difference in perceived safety here.
Funny that this topic should pop up just now as I had the weirdest two experiences in this regard in the last ten days.
Last tuesday I was walking down the street behind the primary school I teach at for an after-lunch ice cream. I hear loud voices, nothing special, I turn around see a group of maybe 8 men arguing, nothing special…I keep walking. Noise gets louder, I turn around and see a massive fist fight between maybe 20 people now. I watch for maybe 20 seconds and then keep walking.
After maybe 50 meters the fight noise keeps following me and growing louder. I take out my camera and film in shaky hand mode how one group of , let’s call them gangsters runs away on the other side of the street in the direction I wanted to go followed by some more gangsters with knifes out in the open. I eventually stop filming and maybe 10 seconds later another group of thugs runs past me on my side of the street, literally within arms reach. I’m slightly shaken and realize I’m basically the only non-gangster still out on the street.
The fighting noise stops, I walk on towards my school, which is maybe 2 minutes from where I’m at now. Suddenly, five more gangsters with iron-bars run past me (where are they all coming from??) while I’m crossing the street and a red sports car comes speeding in pursuit. It stops literally right after it passed me, and 3 guys with machetes step out. The iron bar guys drop their weapons and run for their life, the 3 Machetes scream profanities and wafe with their swords…and I’m standing their in the middle of the road not five meters next from one of them.
Eventually they decide they might not want to wait for the police to show up and speed away.
That was all so bizzare that it only really got me when I arrived back at school and the adrenaline rush came. Luckily I still had an hour of breaktime.
I’m not a big city guy back at home so this was by far the most intense dangerous scene I have ever personally witnessed.
It happened during lunchtime in the public next to a primary school outside of 2nd ringroad where there is really nothing which you would associate with the 黑社会。
Two days later I’m sitting at a starbucks and musing about how annoying that spitting wannabe badboy across from me is. Later when he got up I had a good (quite) laugh at his ridiculous dresscode and was then shut up when two other tables of bodybuilding goons got up to follow him.
That was not threatening in any way but it was not really reassuring to see another open display of gangster behaviour just next to where I live. There was no mistaking the scene, those were his muscle goons sitting in due distance to their spitting, shouting annoying boss.
I still think Chengdu is safe for foreigners.
