Re-Entry Travel Checks Before Leaving Chengdu

Hey — a longer note on Re-Entry Travel Checks Before Leaving Chengdu, as if you were moving onto my street next month.

Don't optimize this like a spreadsheet in week one. Get a workable version first. Polish after you've seen your real overtime pattern.

My blunt tip: If a deal needs secrecy, walk away.

Also: Be on the lease — always.

Please don't keep falling into personal-QR large deposits. I've watched that one burn weekends and goodwill.

When you're here, you'll notice a folder of scans. Let that be your reminder this is a living city, not a packing list.

If you only do three things

• Decide a default you can repeat tired
• Write the Chinese names / pins / chats somewhere searchable
• Revisit in thirty days — not every evening

Save screenshots and chat records for anything involving money, housing, or legal status. Boredom is a strategy.

Tourists can afford chaos. Residents need defaults — one primary option, one backup, and a note with the Chinese name.

If it only works when you're energetic and the weather is perfect, it doesn't work.

Write me (or anyone further along) after you've tried one real version. Adjustments are easier with scars than with theory.

— someone a few mistakes ahead