Shanghaiist: Shanghai one of 5 best places to live overseas for 2008

nanheyangrouchuan

Sun, 09 Nov 2008 01:16:47 +0800

That would definitely be the case with english teachers and long term expats. For those with actual jobs in MNCs, they can come home to a decent salary, but to have a driver and household staff in the West you can't just be rich you have to be wealthy and those expat managers are just middle class back home. And on top of it all no one back home cares about them being white or english speakers. No one.

caedcaed

Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:37:56 +0800

The reason why most expats don't leave China is simple, they cannot afford too. Wages for expatriates have been on a radical decline for the last 5 years. Put on top of that, most expatriates have not had a compliment in years, are exposed to the daily abuse of people on the street, the food the eat is low in vitamins and that they drink heavily, most of them are actually quite depressed and don't know how to get out of the shit hole they are in.

Rebekah Pothaar

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:15:13 +0800

@ dms I enjoy reading Mercer's annual studies, but they're not convincing enough to have me packing my bags for Geneva or Zurich. @ PDM Looking forward to reading Gawker's take on Shanghai.

dms

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:21:37 +0800

Does the worthless online blogging of an English teacher realy warrant a headline story?? Leading Study Findings Overturned by English Teacher Nations the world over faced the stark reality today that the findings of an international study by Mercer covering 215 countries are wildly incorrect. The one-year study, ranking cities across 36 criteria placed Shanghai a lowley 100th livable city in the world. However, a travel blog released today from William Moss finds the study to be wildly incorrect. Indeed, Shanghai is actually the 5th most livable city in the world, acording to the travels of the English teacher. Shanghiist was the first to break the news.

dms

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:06:08 +0800

shopgirl

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:39:26 +0800

i think lots of expats love to complain about this city, but in fact they would never want to leave this town. majority of expats are treating this city like their wifes..

ShanghaiLife

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:23:25 +0800

Best place? With this fog and the cancer-causing mineral water? I don't think so.

nanheyangrouchuan

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:57:09 +0800

"we do love Shanghai's "tapestry of contrast"" Oh, how those pics of middle aged Shanghainese in pyjams with billboard of a global high fashion brand in the background make for a cosmopolitan city. Most english teachers and entrepreneurs would join the expat execs behind the gilded walls if they could afford it.

puhlease

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:01:07 +0800

"Oooh, now that is classic expat jewelery. We laughed, we cried, we puked." I'm so tired of jealous F-listers bitching to Shanghaiist because they were too busy teaching bad English to kids and writing bad English for the local rags to think of pitching an article to a high-paying magazine. A pity that this Summer's visa issues didn't completely cleanse this city of idiotic meanderers whose only contribution to this city is giving hard working expats a bad name. I for one would prefer a few more Conde Nast Traveler readers visiting this city than second-hand Lonely Planet debris.

taihanasie

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 11:36:21 +0800

China needs to do a lot less intervening in markets for Shanghai to become the financial capital of the 21st century. IMO, articles like this are never written with the future in mind. They make projections about the future based on what is hot today.

EPM

Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:45:16 +0800

I'd say there are enough vacuous expats here to warrant the use of 'hot'. In light of wall street's meltdown Gawker is doing a tongue in cheek emigration guide, Dubai was last week and shanghai is on deck for this week, hopefully Gawker's take on shanghai will be up in a day or two http://gawker.com/5060635/why-not-try-dubai