Small point I want to make. I spent 15 years of my life in UK, and Canada, which makes more than my home country by now. This is where my parents lay burred now, and this is where I associate myself with the most.
I used to use VPN when I lived, and worked in China, well... since PDF is banned there.
Now I work (or better to say stuck) doing a railway project in a foreign country which I would rather leave the moment my employer gets money out of locals. For a lot of reasons, I would really want not to be too public about it. The number of Chinese railway companies working in the country is rather small, and we have a lot of "professionals" watching over the forum from Beijing.