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Yes, we realize we are starting to sound like a broken record (or website, for that matter). Just one week ago, we went offline (in Shanghai) for reasons that are still a mystery to us. Today, the entire Gothamist Network was down for about 11 hours -- but that was our own doing ... they unhooked the servers to do a little work. It was all only supposed to last an hour, but you know how those things go ...

August 1 was a strange day here at Shanghaiist. Our site was normal and accessible to pretty much the entire world, including China ... except for most people living in Shanghai. This was, obviously, somewhat of a concern to us, seeing how the majority of our readers are in Shanghai and all of our active contributors live in Shanghai -- thus, we were unable to update the site for you yesterday.

Mercer Human Resource Consulting just released its annual standard of living report, which ranks the quality of life in the world's major big cities. Shanghaiist has kept up the results the last few years, and there haven't been any major changes. Bloomberg reports: