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3 BR Short/Long Term – 128 sqm, fully furnished, incredible view of Zhong Tan Park & River Location: Putuo District, Shanghai
Daily rates: 3 Br - US$ 85 / 580 RMB; Monthly: US$ 1, 070 or RMB 7,300

Every room has air conditioner/heater, WIFI Internet.  Building is located 500m from Moganshan Road (one of the centers of Shanghai’s modern art movement). This apartment is perfect for students, business people or families.

Noteworthy points: Quiet apartment complex, Weider-Tera Fitness Club with swimming pool, spa, tennis courts, yacht club, nice restaurants and many other convenient facilities are within walking distance. 15 – 20 min from downtown (US$ 3.3 / 21 RMB by Taxi) or US$0.50 / 4 RMB by metro (Line 3 & 4 Zhongtan Rd. metro station nearby).  20-25 min away from major Universities (SISU, Fudan, Tongji, etc.)

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Following up — 30%

Helping others — 25%

Being a good listener — 21%

Projecting Sincerity — 14%

Having a pleasant attitude — 10%

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One of the biggest challenges that newcomers find when first settling in Shanghai is grocery shopping. It is obvious that the products available in the local grocery stores are very different from those back in our western home countries, and finding the right products to buy might become a little tricky.

I have spent quite some time exploring lots of supermarkets in different areas in Shanghai, trying to locate those which offer the largest selection of western and imported products. If you are really in the need of buying a specific western product, I would recommed you to visit any of the following stores:

• City Shop (www.cityshop.com.cn): These stores are sort of hidden diamonds for foreigners in Shanghai. Although not a lot of people know about them, they have by far the largest catalogue of imported items available in the city. A wide variety of products from the United States, Australia, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Japan is available at this store. Very worthwhile to take a look, especially if you are willing to pay a little higher for western products (anywhere from edibles to personal health items) unavailable elsewhere in the city. As far as I know, they have a few locations around Shanghai (one in Pudong, at the Citigroup tower, and the rest of them in Puxi). Check their website to find the closest to you.
• Carrefour: No wonder that a French store carries western products. They have at least a couple of aisles full of imported stuff in each of their stores in Shanghai (Gubei, Zhongshan Park, and a new location close to Century Park in Pudong). The prices are lower than those of City Shop, although the range of products is much smaller as well (mainly focused in foodstuffs). Anyhow, they still have lots of western products (especially European) and it is worth just taking the time to explore their shelves sometime.
• Lotus Supermarket: I believe that they have about 8 branches in Shanghai, although their most popular (and the only one that I have had the chance to visit personally) is located in the B2 level of the Super Brand Mall in Pudong (right across the Oriental Pearl Tower). Their imported merchandise comes mainly from Japan and Europe. This store is a bit more expensive than Carrefour, but still cheaper than City Shop, although perhaps they have the less extensive selection of imported items from all three. In fact, the imported products there are mainly cookies, cereals, some preserved foods, pastas/noodles, beverages, chocolate bars and other candies. If the kind of product you are looking for falls into one of those categories, then I recommend to go and take a look at their import section.

Do you know of any other store that carries some imported stuff in Shanghai? Please comment and share your knowledge with us!

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Hello! I am Eddie, a westerner who has had the opportunity to spend some time in Shanghai in different times, for different circumstances. I want to share my experiences here to make it easier for foreigners who are about to come to China and don’t know what to expect from life here, and to help people who are already here in Chine but are not very used to life here.

I have been experiencing Shanghai as a newcomer for the last month, and the lifestyle shock has been quite big. Probably mine is not an isolated case - chances are that most foreigners, especially Westerners (coming from the Americas and Europe mainly) experience radical differences in their everyday lives. Some of those differences make us love life in Shanghai, but some other details we would rather change them for our old western habits. Here I came up with a list of things that I find different in Shanghai than in the west, whether for good or bad.

The things I love

1. No tips: In Chinese culture, it is rude to tip people in most of the cases. Waiters, taxi drivers and hairdressers, among others, don’t expect tips from you, even if their service was outstanding. That’s beautiful: people will make an effort to serve you well, for only the listed price!… as opposed to our western countries, where even if the service received was lousy, you still have to pay tips (and if you refuse to pay a tip, at least you have to be prepared for a sour argument).
2. Nightlife: Parties are endless in Shanghai. I was missing those good ol’ times in which I started my night at 11 pm, and partied non-stop until 5 or 6 am if I wanted to. Shanghai caters well that kind of market, since nightclubs, pubs and bars are open from quite early until very, very late (or very, very early, depending on how exactly you would define 5 or 6 am the next day!). Prices of liquor and food in those establishments are reasonable for western standards (not so for Chinese standards), generally speaking: On average, you can expect to pay about 45 RMB, or $6.60 US Dollars, for a drink.
3. Cost of transportation: For western standards, moving around Shanghai on public transit is quite cheap, and service is reliable. For instance, a subway ride costs 3, 4 or 5 RMB ($0.44, $0.58 or $0.73 USD, respectively) depending on the distance traveled. A bus ride has a flat price of 2 RMB ($0.29 USD). Taxis are also a very convenient means of transportation, as long as you can explain the cabbie where to go in Chinese… the cheapest trips (equal or less than 3 km long) cost 11 RMB (about $1.61 USD). In comparison, I suspect that those prices would not take you even to the closest corner store in our countries.
4. Cost of food: Even if you are not a hardcore admirer of Asian food, such as myself, you will find that the cost of food in average is relatively low compared to the west. For example, a good meal for two people with 5 (large) different dishes and tea to drink can cost as little as 150 RMB (about $21.95 USD), and you can be sure that you’ll leave the restaurant almost bouncing (figuratively speaking, of course!). However, be aware that some of the popular items on menu restaurants are made with exotic ingredients that lots of westerners would normally avoid, so you have to be really careful when ordering dishes (have some Chinese speaker to inform the staff about your own eating restrictions, as well as to inquire beforehand about the ingredients used in the preparation of specific dishes); other items, such as snacks, fruits, pastries, candies, and bubble tea, are also very cheap compared to prices of similar products in the west. Nevertheless, western food in China tends to be expensive for Chinese standards and its prices are pretty much comparable to those in countries like Canada and the US, if not higher.

The things I hate dislike

1. Street etiquette: Certain habits that in the west we see as gross and unhealthy, are quite common to see in China: People spitting in the outdoors and indoors alike (yes, I have seen people spitting in the corridors of malls!), coughing and sneezing without covering their mouths, burping loudly, picking their noses, and urinating in the streets, are everyday occurrences. If you plan to come here, be prepared to see all of the above… but for God sake, do not imitate (let alone assimilate) them!
2. Nutritional… what?: For a few freaks like myself, it is very important to always read the nutritional information labels that appear in every single manufactured food product that we purchase in the west. At least by reading them, you have an idea about how much junk or how much healthy stuff you are feeding your body with. In China, however, this does not appear to be much of the information for the government’s, manufacturers’, or consumers’ interest, since it is not mandatory to print the nutritional information of edible products on their respective packages. There are a few Chinese companies who do print such information on their products’ labels (and even fewer who do that in English), but those are still rare exceptions. The solution? If you are concerned about the nutritional information of foodstuffs you buy, just like I am, there are three options: #1 - you get prepared to spend long hours touring supermarkets to find local products with such information, #2 - you restrict yourself to buying import products from USA, Europe and Australia (for a considerably higher price than local products, of course), or #3 - you just stop being picky about how healthy are the foods you buy. I personally chose #2.
3. No lineups, but…: When talking about Shanghai, saying that lineups are uncommon doesn’t mean that crowds are rare. In fact, it means something much less pleasant: In order ride a bus, place orders in fast food restaurants, or purchase a ticket for an event, people avoid lineups by pushing others, yelling to each other, struggling, and sneaking past individuals who have been waiting for longer than them. Apart from being a claustrophobic experience, it also creates a lot of chaos, which is pretty noticeable, for example, when observing people trying to get in or out the subway wagons in very busy stations, such as People’s Square station: the scene resembles more of an epic movie than a procedure that is pretty harmonized in most (and I stress again, just most and not all) of our western countries.
4. Antiperspirant, anyone?: If you ever plan to come to China for a while, here’s a tip you should keep in mind: Bring your own stack of your favourite antiperspirant from your country! That sort of product is virtually non-existent in China (even in Shanghai). If you are extremely lucky, you can find some deodorants at best, but their prices will be very high. I had to learn about the scarcity of these products the hard way, and I am looking forward to bringing a few bars of my favourite antiperspirant with me for my next visit. (Special thanks to my friend Isaac for kindly supplying me with an antiperspirant bar from his own stack for my hygienic subsistence in Shanghai!!).
5. Soap, schmoap!: Believe it or not, it is not uncommon to walk into a public washroom (I am talking about washrooms in high end malls and stores even) and finding out that there is no soap to wash your hands, even if (gratefully) there are sinks. And that’s not because they just happened to run out of soap, but if you observe your surroundings carefully, you’ll notice that there are not even soap dispensers installed in the first place! That especially sucks if the purpose of your visit to the washroom was precisely to wash your hands. (Please note that I’m not talking about the cases when the sinks and soap are outside the washrooms, in those cases you will most likely find soap there). Unfortunately, portable hand sanitizers are a rare product in China, so your best option is to always carry some wet tissues with you, or to locate the public washrooms that do offer soap in the places you frequent.

Of course, those are only a few highlights :). Please share with us your own experiences and points of view about life in Shanghai!