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It's really hard to fathom how quickly things have changed in China in the past ~20 years. I haven't been there since early 2017 which doesn't feel that long ago, but I'm planning another trip there hopefully for next year and I already know to expect massive changes since then.
Meanwhile in my city here in Canada the fact that we have built a half dozen decent residential towers and put in some bike and bus lanes downtown since then is sadly good progress compared to a lot of cities on the continent. Truly just different levels of progress in China.
Living in Canada is depressing af, infrastructure develops on geological scale here. It's like watching plate tectonics.
Moved back to my small Ontario town after like a decade away a couple years back and it's all virtually the same (except with way more empty storefronts downtown, thank god we give landlords a tax break for letting them stand vacant!).
I used to live in Fredericton, NB. It was basically like a time capsule. Nothing changed there.