If you're settling in Chengdu, Personal Data Hygiene for Life in China Apps stops being abstract advice and becomes Tuesday logistics.
Let's talk about personal data hygiene in layers — logistics, temperament, and street-level truth.
Layer one: non-negotiables
Money, time, legal constraints. If those aren't clear, every recommendation is cosplay.
Cloud copy + offline copy.
Layer two: temperament
Some people need quiet. Some need walkable chaos. Pretending you're the other type lasts about six weeks.
Be on the lease — always.
Layer three: the street
You'll feel it in details — a folder of scans — long before you feel it in a ranking blog.
- One primary option
- One backup in your district
- One expensive break-glass option for emergencies
What I'd ignore
Advice that assumes unlimited energy. Also any plan that circles back to address updates 'later forever'.
Copying someone else's routine from a different district and different job is how people waste their first quarter.
Chengdu gets easier when routines stop feeling temporary.
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