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Anyone ever lived (or currently living) in Shanghai?

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z0mb13

Lifer
I plan to live in Shanghai for about a year to study Mandarin and look at business opportunities 😀😀
Needless to say I am looking forward to it.

To get a head start on things to do and places to see, can anyone please give me some advice?

Also I heard public transportation there is wonderful, so a car is not needed at all, correct?

What else should I know about this wonderful city? What about the nightlife? Maybe some interesting tidbits about Shanghai. 🙂

Thanks for any info

 
Been there a couple times visiting family and the public transpo system is amazing!

Pretty good nightlife. Exploring along the Bund(sp) river is amazing at night with all the lights.

Prices are not fixed and most store owners are pissed if you don't try and haggle with them.

Be careful if you buy clothes at the sample stores, the sizing usally runs small.

The MAJOR downer about it is the pollution is just disgusting! It really looks like the city is in a fog bank most of the time. Hong Kong is the same way if not worse.


Have fun!

Desslok


Originally posted by: z0mb13
I plan to live in Shanghai for about a year to study Mandarin and look at business opportunities 😀😀
Needless to say I am looking forward to it.

To get a head start on things to do and places to see, can anyone please give me some advice?

Also I heard public transportation there is wonderful, so a car is not needed at all, correct?

What else should I know about this wonderful city? What about the nightlife? Maybe some interesting tidbits about Shanghai. 🙂

Thanks for any info
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Originally posted by: z0mb13
so I take it the haggling is only done on street vendors and traditional stores?
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street vendors love to haggle.

Taditional stores not so much, but family owned stores will haggle.

 
Xujiahui has some mad electronics and pirated software. HaiHuaiLu (sp?) has some fun clubs where you can run into some hunnies. Summer time rocks, 45-50C ---> super short skirts and asians want to "practice" english. I'll show you how we speak in America .....
 
I spent a weekend there


there's something to avoid

when walking around, especially by yourself, two chinese college aged girls will approach you and start conversation. They will do their best to be your friend and eventually they will want to go drink coffee at some shop. They guide me there and they start ordering all this sh!t. They start flirting and wanting you to be their boyfriend. They order liquor and everything on the menu... luckily, I didn't take a sip of the alcohol or eat much of the stuff because I knew what they were trying to do. The bill comes out and it's about 3000 yuan.. which is about $384!! for pretty much nothing. That's a lot of money in China. They want me to put in on my credit card because they "know that I have money". They will "visit me later in my hotel later if I pay this bill". First of all, the girls are butt ugly... really uneducated girls who do nothing but try to rip people off. I asked one of the girls what she was studying in college and she replied, "I am studying magic... like magic cards".. WTF. I call up my friends and to make a long story short, after long arguments and frustrating the hell out of all the workers there, I paid about 200 - 300 yuan.. equivalent to about 25-35 USD. I just wanted to get outta there but there's no way that I was going to pay 3000 yuan. I got the girls drunk on their own liquor because they couldn't even walk straight. I gave them a lot of trouble before I coughed up the 200-300 yuan so I'm sure they will think twice before pulling this kind of sh!t again.

I put all the pieces together after I got back to the hotel.... the girls and the coffee shop are in a form of partnership... they bring in foreigners (guys) and try to make them pay overpriced dishes and drinks. The prices on the receipt were unbelieveable. The girls get a percentage of it, obviously. Call me stupid, but I knew they wanted me to pay for their drinks when they wanted to go to a local coffee shop.. I expected the price to be 20 yuan total.. not 3000!
so yeah, don't let this happene to you. Just avoid all interactions with Chinese people... there's so many shady people in China, this goes for girls you meet in clubs, to taxi drivers, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!
 
Originally posted by: fritolays
I spent a weekend there


there's something to avoid

when walking around, especially by yourself, two chinese college aged girls will approach you and start conversation. They will do their best to be your friend and eventually they will want to go drink coffee at some shop. They guide me there and they start ordering all this sh!t. They start flirting and wanting you to be their boyfriend. They order liquor and everything on the menu... luckily, I didn't take a sip of the alcohol or eat much of the stuff because I knew what they were trying to do. The bill comes out and it's about 3000 yuan.. which is about $384!! for pretty much nothing. That's a lot of money in China. They want me to put in on my credit card because they "know that I have money". They will "visit me later in my hotel later if I pay this bill". First of all, the girls are butt ugly... really uneducated girls who do nothing but try to rip people off. I asked one of the girls what she was studying in college and she replied, "I am studying magic... like magic cards".. WTF. I call up my friends and to make a long story short, after long arguments and frustrating the hell out of all the workers there, I paid about 200 - 300 yuan.. equivalent to about 25-35 USD. I just wanted to get outta there but there's no way that I was going to pay 3000 yuan. I got the girls drunk on their own liquor because they couldn't even walk straight. I gave them a lot of trouble before I coughed up the 200-300 yuan so I'm sure they will think twice before pulling this kind of sh!t again.

I put all the pieces together after I got back to the hotel.... the girls and the coffee shop are in a form of partnership... they bring in foreigners (guys) and try to make them pay overpriced dishes and drinks. The prices on the receipt were unbelieveable. The girls get a percentage of it, obviously. Call me stupid, but I knew they wanted me to pay for their drinks when they wanted to go to a local coffee shop.. I expected the price to be 20 yuan total.. not 3000!
so yeah, don't let this happene to you. Just avoid all interactions with Chinese people... there's so many shady people in China, this goes for girls you meet in clubs, to taxi drivers, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!
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lmao.
 
Hundreds of pubs at HuaiHaiLu(road), HengshanLu(rRoad), Fuxing Park and so on; Pirated software/dvds everwhere, the price you can't believe. Few Chinese traditional stores, but U can have a vist to Suzhou and Hangzhou, both very chost to Shanghai.
 
Originally posted by: fritolays
I spent a weekend there


there's something to avoid

when walking around, especially by yourself, two chinese college aged girls will approach you and start conversation. They will do their best to be your friend and eventually they will want to go drink coffee at some shop. They guide me there and they start ordering all this sh!t. They start flirting and wanting you to be their boyfriend. They order liquor and everything on the menu... luckily, I didn't take a sip of the alcohol or eat much of the stuff because I knew what they were trying to do. The bill comes out and it's about 3000 yuan.. which is about $384!! for pretty much nothing. That's a lot of money in China. They want me to put in on my credit card because they "know that I have money". They will "visit me later in my hotel later if I pay this bill". First of all, the girls are butt ugly... really uneducated girls who do nothing but try to rip people off. I asked one of the girls what she was studying in college and she replied, "I am studying magic... like magic cards".. WTF. I call up my friends and to make a long story short, after long arguments and frustrating the hell out of all the workers there, I paid about 200 - 300 yuan.. equivalent to about 25-35 USD. I just wanted to get outta there but there's no way that I was going to pay 3000 yuan. I got the girls drunk on their own liquor because they couldn't even walk straight. I gave them a lot of trouble before I coughed up the 200-300 yuan so I'm sure they will think twice before pulling this kind of sh!t again.

I put all the pieces together after I got back to the hotel.... the girls and the coffee shop are in a form of partnership... they bring in foreigners (guys) and try to make them pay overpriced dishes and drinks. The prices on the receipt were unbelieveable. The girls get a percentage of it, obviously. Call me stupid, but I knew they wanted me to pay for their drinks when they wanted to go to a local coffee shop.. I expected the price to be 20 yuan total.. not 3000!
so yeah, don't let this happene to you. Just avoid all interactions with Chinese people... there's so many shady people in China, this goes for girls you meet in clubs, to taxi drivers, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!
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It seems that U'd better ask them what study in college before go to have a drink:laugh:
 
Originally posted by: fritolays
I spent a weekend there


there's something to avoid

when walking around, especially by yourself, two chinese college aged girls will approach you and start conversation. They will do their best to be your friend and eventually they will want to go drink coffee at some shop. They guide me there and they start ordering all this sh!t. They start flirting and wanting you to be their boyfriend. They order liquor and everything on the menu... luckily, I didn't take a sip of the alcohol or eat much of the stuff because I knew what they were trying to do. The bill comes out and it's about 3000 yuan.. which is about $384!! for pretty much nothing. That's a lot of money in China. They want me to put in on my credit card because they "know that I have money". They will "visit me later in my hotel later if I pay this bill". First of all, the girls are butt ugly... really uneducated girls who do nothing but try to rip people off. I asked one of the girls what she was studying in college and she replied, "I am studying magic... like magic cards".. WTF. I call up my friends and to make a long story short, after long arguments and frustrating the hell out of all the workers there, I paid about 200 - 300 yuan.. equivalent to about 25-35 USD. I just wanted to get outta there but there's no way that I was going to pay 3000 yuan. I got the girls drunk on their own liquor because they couldn't even walk straight. I gave them a lot of trouble before I coughed up the 200-300 yuan so I'm sure they will think twice before pulling this kind of sh!t again.

I put all the pieces together after I got back to the hotel.... the girls and the coffee shop are in a form of partnership... they bring in foreigners (guys) and try to make them pay overpriced dishes and drinks. The prices on the receipt were unbelieveable. The girls get a percentage of it, obviously. Call me stupid, but I knew they wanted me to pay for their drinks when they wanted to go to a local coffee shop.. I expected the price to be 20 yuan total.. not 3000!
so yeah, don't let this happene to you. Just avoid all interactions with Chinese people... there's so many shady people in China, this goes for girls you meet in clubs, to taxi drivers, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!
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Just because you're a gullible idiot doesn't mean you have to avoid all interaction with Chinese people.
 
Originally posted by: KLin
Originally posted by: fritolays
I spent a weekend there


there's something to avoid

when walking around, especially by yourself, two chinese college aged girls will approach you and start conversation. They will do their best to be your friend and eventually they will want to go drink coffee at some shop. They guide me there and they start ordering all this sh!t. They start flirting and wanting you to be their boyfriend. They order liquor and everything on the menu... luckily, I didn't take a sip of the alcohol or eat much of the stuff because I knew what they were trying to do. The bill comes out and it's about 3000 yuan.. which is about $384!! for pretty much nothing. That's a lot of money in China. They want me to put in on my credit card because they "know that I have money". They will "visit me later in my hotel later if I pay this bill". First of all, the girls are butt ugly... really uneducated girls who do nothing but try to rip people off. I asked one of the girls what she was studying in college and she replied, "I am studying magic... like magic cards".. WTF. I call up my friends and to make a long story short, after long arguments and frustrating the hell out of all the workers there, I paid about 200 - 300 yuan.. equivalent to about 25-35 USD. I just wanted to get outta there but there's no way that I was going to pay 3000 yuan. I got the girls drunk on their own liquor because they couldn't even walk straight. I gave them a lot of trouble before I coughed up the 200-300 yuan so I'm sure they will think twice before pulling this kind of sh!t again.

I put all the pieces together after I got back to the hotel.... the girls and the coffee shop are in a form of partnership... they bring in foreigners (guys) and try to make them pay overpriced dishes and drinks. The prices on the receipt were unbelieveable. The girls get a percentage of it, obviously. Call me stupid, but I knew they wanted me to pay for their drinks when they wanted to go to a local coffee shop.. I expected the price to be 20 yuan total.. not 3000!
so yeah, don't let this happene to you. Just avoid all interactions with Chinese people... there's so many shady people in China, this goes for girls you meet in clubs, to taxi drivers, EVERYTHING and EVERYONE!
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Just because you're a gullible idiot doesn't mean you have to avoid all interaction with Chinese people.
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lol good thing I dont look like rich pickings (I myself look chinese)
 
Don't get a car ANYWHERE in China. You will isolate yourself from daily life if you do that. And all that crap about being victimized never happened to me. If your gonna try to buy your way into romance then of course bad stuff would happen to you - just dont mess around with those damn bars all the Australians go to (i.e. foreign bars where men by sex cause they cant date the normal way!)

Buy a bicycle so you can experience the city the right way - the Subway is amazing - and a cab ride that would cost you 60 dollars in America will only cost you about 10 dollars to get across town if it's late at night. What a city!
 
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