The new place....so our residency is a bit out of the city. This is pretty much the landscape. One large road that is pretty deserted with the exception of some concrete apartment structures, one gas station, a hand full of small (very small) Chinese-style shops, and one grocery. The residency is down a small lane across from a power station and in a compound structure with other artists inside (most of which are Chinese and I am unsure if they have a connection to Red Gate). It is a bit more difficult to live out here in some ways (ie no car, no drinking water, little heat (coal and steam), yet there is internet, currently wireless, english dvds at the grocery store, housing developments near the grocery that remind me of america but a little more deserted, and a huge, brand new tv and dvd player, at the residency. The residency told us there are getting bikes for us, but our isolation form everything is a little stressful so those bikes don't show up soon, I at least might buy one in the city and ride it out here.