After unknowingly to the United States had lived for 30 years, this period has been back to China five times to his wife lived in Shanghai most of the sister, her family in Shanghai, near the northeast Wujiaochang can only be regarded as suburbs of Shanghai, is living in the compound belongs to the army, so the real not know much about life in Shanghai. In early June 2010, accompanied by our daughter a family of three to travel in China, with two weeks to visit Shanghai, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Beijing, after their four cities to return to America. They left me and his wife remained in Shanghai, after living together for over a month. Since his wife's eldest sister and her husband have a large, state of health not good, this time not to disturb them. Just my son in a hotel in Jing'an District, Shanghai apartment has a room, they moved to Suzhou, is currently idle, we will be there, Shanghai Jing'an District is the center of the most prosperous areas. Nanjing West Road, Jingan district, Yuyuan Road, Huashan Road, was listed as part of the historical and cultural protected areas, Shanghai has Moller Villa, Seymour Road, halls, springs and other Excellent Building Square 80 multiple; also Zhang garden and many other neighborhood homes. There are many famous people in history have lived in Jing'an District, such as Cai, Yu Yu-jen, Hsu, Chang, Zhou Xinfang, Center Stage, mixing and so on. Jewish merchants also the former residence of the Federation and the tycoon.
Shanghai area is the most important political, economic and cultural centers. Modern culture and the media gathered there: Wenhui Xinmin United Press Group, Brunei Media Group, Shanghai TV, Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House, Shanghai Theater Academy, Shanghai Opera House, the Shanghai Animation Film Studio, and other units.
Jing'an District, Metropolitan Ballroom, Paramount dance hall is the thirties to the famous There are areas of Shanghai Centre Theatre, environment art theater, Majestic Theatre high-end motion picture as represented by places, Shanghai Cultural Center, Shanghai Children's Palace is also located in the region. Nanjing Road, has formed the framework of modern commerce, and built more than 5,000 square meters of large commercial buildings more than 30 buildings, new commercial facilities, 460,000 square meters, the formation of Westgate Mall, Citic Square, Hang Lung Plaza as the center of the high-grade district. Construction of office buildings and 1.5 million square meters, the introduction of more than 2,000 foreign-resident companies and organizations. We live in apartments in the Golden Eagle building, next to the Golden Eagle Shopping Center, diagonally opposite is the Hang Lung Plaza. New York's Times Square was not much, but still have an open-air venues; and Shanghai there are countless The scale of these buildings, decoration of luxury is rare in the United States. Building a home store, not a Chinese name, only the foreign language signs: Versace, Cucci, Chanel, Piquadro, Luise Vuilton, Callisto, Sorrento, Desfon ... ... we really do not know these rustic place in them is to which country. And international standards is in order, in order to easily identify the foreigners, there is little sign hung foreign language, but side by side on a Chinese font not take much of the cost. Nothing else to do I turn a couple of big Nanjing Road, the area of foreign tourists, foreign investors in Chinese companies is the fact that many staff can Wujiaochang those in more remote areas cover a lot of new buildings, one of the stores she has only been linked to foreign language signs, I really do not understand this is a What kind of mentality? Indeed, those buildings are not we, rustic store shopping, a lapel of the T-shirt asking for more than one thousand yuan (RMB, same below), or about six dollars a seventy yuan Bai. Thirty years ago when I first arrived in the United States to buy what should count the number of co-yuan, I felt something the United States too expensive. Now I have the habit of returning to China to be converted some, medium-quality clothing found in the prices of the two countries are close, while the brand-name clothing is a lot more expensive in China than the United States. I'm back to the mainland this time wearing a pair of jeans, with a five shorts and a dark suit pants, I did not expect a bit careless, take the suit pants a wife, to Shanghai only to find to get wrong. Shanghai people are very particular about dress, and some NPC hot day wearing a suit and tie, shoes polished burnished. Have friends around in a big hotel invited us to eat, if wearing jeans or shorts to dinner too do not respect each other, and I had to buy one now. Nanjing West Road, this area of the store price is ridiculously expensive, then, through a friend's advice, we find a building, downstairs is the people side of business banking at a branch, upstairs four small shops are all individuals, there are always several hundred, each occupied area of less than ten square meters, respectively, the sale of clothing and footwear, bags and jewelry, watches and clocks, jewelry, small household appliances, audio CDs ... ... where the goods were relatively cheap, spend a hundred dollars to buy a suit pants to deal with this meal Bureau. That building in the small shops that sold out the domestic goods, secretly selling counterfeit foreign brand-name goods, and pirated video compact discs and computer software. A brand-name watches on the yuan, where seven or eight hundred dollars can buy. Those counterfeit almost like genuine, said to have been there bought a Those fakes are usually hidden in the dark closet, met with We stroll out of the shop buildings, saw the inside of the door hung a huge banner that read: Although we live in apartments on the electric and sewer, but no cooking utensils, can not cook their own food and had to go to a restaurant meal. Restaurants can be said that everywhere in Shanghai, the streets everywhere. Completely rely on work relations in China, do accounts, the focus of the school, the university entrance exam,Discount UGG boots, finding a job, promotion, medical care, passport, office licenses, quotas, talk business ... ... there is no relationship between the families to help the task is difficult to succeed. Latin American relations is one of the best restaurant sites, can not solve the problem of the negotiating table, the table of the study (alcohol and tobacco alcohol and tobacco) is easier to reach an agreement, the two glasses of wine you'll feel like adding a catalyst like, immediately to produce a chemical reaction. Style restaurants are bigger, the gate stood a slide on each side of Miss bare thigh slits dressed in cheongsam, a bow to you: On the floor, the stairs is a slip of the lady, private room with bathroom furnishings are luxurious and in the United States had not yet seen such a big parade. Crabs, eel wire, the South African network Bao, fire pupil fin, bird's nest Minced Chicken, Tiao, steamed shad, spicy glutton frog, salt and pepper water, pigeon, raw sea tiger wing claws removed, roast duck, lamb everything. Table of ten, down meal, but more than one thousand yuan, the price of a T-shirt only. We live near a major that expensive. Others treat us in a few times, to our own money, is cash-strapped. Wujiang Lu food street with bar, ten minutes walk from our accommodation available, where goods home pot noodle bar, a bowl of noodles hundred and sixty thousand yuan, a fried dumpling (six) ten dollars; there is a shop called the Wang Jia Sha, the original famous pastry shops in Shanghai, it also has food and beverage department, famous crab steamed dumplings, a cage 4 18 yuan, 15 yuan a bowl of pork noodle soup also has to eat too. Westgate Mall basement Later found not far from the alley home, there are a Yonghe King, noon meal was a bowl of pickled pork 18. The morning to eat a bowl of milk fritters only 7 dollars, or about a dollar, it is too cheap in the United States will Yonghe fried dough sticks 3 dollars a supermarket. Shanghai in June is the season of yellow mold, hot and humid climate, his wife who played a lot of erythema, and some in groups, some everywhere. At first thought it was a mosquito bite, mosquito bites can be how a palm not feel? Some say it is an allergic reaction to moisture, drink like a bean soup. In order to come to buy a cooking pot bean soup, I went to Nanjing Road Pedestrian Street, turn several department stores, a diameter of 8 stainless steel pot also a thousand dollars. Clerk look at me puzzled expression Naodai to explain to me these cookers are imports from Europe. I went to ask the first department stores, also have only imported goods, the final or in the Wujiaochang Wal-Mart (Wal-Mart) to spend 70 yuan to buy a mall. State-run stores can not buy domestic products, but the chain stores have to go abroad to buy, really makes people understand. Wal-Mart's goods are relatively common people, the price is relatively cheap in China: about 40 cents per pound of flour (Silicon Valley Costco to sell 21 cents); Northeast combined 44 cents per pound of rice, Thai rice each 98 cents a pound together (Costco) brand rice treasures combined 40 cents per pound); low-fat milk, 1 gallon of fresh aggregate $ 5.8 (Costco sells $ 2.4); peanut butter 340 grams bottle of 11.70 yuan, the price is converted into 3 pounds 46.8 yuan, joint U.S. 8 dollars more expensive than here on the Costco price doubled; USD 2.5 pound pork together. Vegetables generally cheaper than the U.S., but in addition to vegetables, other than the United States to cook the raw materials are expensive, we would receive this in the U.S. retirement benefits, to get China to more and more without the flowers, not to mention the Chinese Room The high price of my generation is unbearable. Back to China in 2007, in the family and friends at home Ye Hao, in the cafe cafe Ye Hao, in restaurants Ye Hao, heard about all things related to stocks, what kind of bullish stocks, what stocks to fall, the old A buy today into the number, the number of small C and sold. At that time the Shanghai index rose to six thousand points,UGG boots cheap, stocks have me so excited people, and now the Shanghai index hovering only two thousand five hundred points, this year not to go back to listening to people talk about the stock thing, and heard is mostly about buying a house and renovated a house. Some people voice in public places, particularly fearful of people do not know how much of the mansion, decorated much stress. Series, Is not hard to find a room because there is no free house for sale, but because the price is too high, not only to raise less money down, after they could not afford to buy down the mortgage each month. Rough to forty or fifty thousand per square meter of housing, coupled with renovation costs, a house might have exceeded the U.S. average price, and buy it only after the owner the right to use land or country. Now in addition to being outside the protection of cultural relics of the old house, little house demolished almost bare. Stripped off the old alleys. Made from matchboxes, dense forests, like the cement plant, dozens of door-like building blocks of exactly the same collision, people often get lost. However, there are many people in Shanghai have several house, many of which are upstarts, some are red collar class and Jinling class. The former is a public officer,Bailey UGG boots, a fixed salary, with health insurance, there are gray income. The larger the unit real power, the greater the gray income, and some also assigned to the house; some people can seize the opportunity to take advantage of the hands of some savings, house prices rose not buy one or two before, one can preserve the value of the second When grandson to marry his wife for his son to use, no house, cooked duck is also possible to fly away. Jinling class is a foreign agent or manager in a multinational company as president of a class of people, for their higher income, and dividends can be divided into, so have the ability to bought several houses. They not only buy in Shanghai, also in Shanghai's neighboring buy, for example, Kunshan, Suzhou and other places. My son work in Kunshan, Suzhou bought a house and move there to live, a dozen buildings in the district building, each of them can live dozens of households. I went there some days to see the basement parking lot only buy for investment, prices idle there, waiting, waiting to sell. 30 years ago, two people to turn a (sewing machines, bicycles, radios) and struggle, is now the standard of living has been greatly enhanced, the main goal is to house and car had. Indispensable house of course, the hardware of life, but the car is not the case in Shanghai. Shanghai's public transport is very developed, bus, trolley bus at least eight hundred lines, around the streets. In recent years, 13 new subway, there are 12 in operation; in addition to hundreds of thousands of taxi two to work so that there is no need to buy a car. But the car is to show the identity of the best props, especially the import brands have a car, wherever will attract a large number of eyeballs, so buying a car has become a trend. Repair of the inner ring of Shanghai Way, Outer Ring Elevated Highway, and Yan'an elevated highway, but still can not ease the traffic congestion, urban areas block the streets, elevated highways are also blocked, the reason is too much traffic. Shanghai already taken measures to limit the growth of vehicle, license plate since 2000, implementation of the auction system, limited only sell five thousand per month in order to control vehicle growth rate. Suddenly, Scoop Shanghai license plate has been around fifty thousand yuan, or a license hard to find. Some people managed to buy a license plate around Shanghai, the city, although the non-Shanghai license plates will be subject to many limitations, such as the peak period can not be on the elevated road. But for those who work on the car is not for people who use it does not matter, they drove mainly for social purposes, not better on the highway, traffic jams in the streets by chance, can have sufficient time to demonstrate their driving Block. During more than a month in Shanghai, the main subway to go out and occasionally sit taxi. Metro is very convenient, accessible, and low cost, starting at 3 yuan, far away no matter how many lines you convert your deduction only 4 yuan. Buy a travel card, stop time Subway trips and more speed, not traffic jams, to arrive on time. The only inconvenience is that you much to go one way, unless your door is the subway station. Also, for transfer to another route, they need to walk a few minutes. Subway system with air conditioning, walk in the hot summer feel very cool. There is also rush hour compared crowded carriage, and sometimes chest stick back, you have a little forbearance and tolerance.
after starting every subway train, radio speaker, the terminal will report this train is there, next stop will get there. And reminds visitors the old man should be considered a rare species, but many people still turn a blind eye: Some pretend to bow to manipulation of cell phones, and some pretend to read the newspaper, some eyes closed, and some asleep. Give up his seat there, take the subway will probably be met ten times. A taxi is also very convenient, can not wait a few minutes to touch off empty, a car to pull over to stop waving. Starts at 12 yuan (3 kilometers) from Pudong Airport to sit as long as 70 per Jing'an Temple. Although the more expensive taxi ride, but do not walk, do not change. China, the price of gasoline more expensive than in the U.S., but the United States cheaper than a taxi, mainly China's cheaper labor than the United States. Just take a taxi sometimes encounter traffic jam, the driver can do nothing. Shanghai's traffic order in China is still relatively good, but we definitely are not driving in Shanghai. The first is overcrowded vehicles on the road, the distance between cars and trucks are often only an inch of Can not help but admire the local people's driving skills is really high, but also and motorcycles, bicycles and pedestrians grab the line right of way. They drove the car change lanes without signaling first hit hard in the insert in the driveway sideways; as long as there is enough space in the street can play anywhere in U-turn; driving without a safety belt. Prevailing rules are not clear the traffic lights, turn left at the crossroads of most of the lights did not, either when the green light turn right, you can turn left and turn left straight road vehicles do not give priority to see who's courageous, who to be had; red light after the vertical direction is green, when the pedestrian crossing in that direction should have the right, to the same direction the car to turn left, turn left, turn right to turn right, grab the hard and pedestrians Road. Conversely, when the car first, pedestrians, such as the movie In the downtown, such as Nanjing Road and the vertical direction of the confluence of many road place, on the allocation of the These warnings can only play the role of volunteers, with red armbands, blowing whistles, to indicate which direction to go, which direction should go,UGG bailey button, and there is no mandatory enforcement of rights. People who do not listen to warning its own way, volunteers also helpless. Shanghai densely populated, more than a tiny building, parking hard to find, and some cars parked on the pavement, there are many motorcycle or riding a bicycle on the sidewalk to walk through, probably used to the people of Shanghai, the heart does not panic, gas chaos, no one protests. Former This is in fact rely on the hard work of millions of migrant workers on the results of the income of migrant workers in the home than they can get much higher. However, Shanghai is by no means a paradise for migrant workers, their monthly salary is just enough to buy one or two brand-name T-shirt only. In this materialistic whole wide world can only be a paradise for the rich: the rich under Dun Dun restaurant guise for the food, eat after the Kara OK to sing and dance to the Paramount, drink two bottles of the bar, and then go to spas to miss doing the acupressure, wash feet, squeezed feet. We originally planned to return to the United States, a daughter, then returned to Beijing, and Inner Mongolia to visit relatives and friends, so our return ticket is set at 7 at the end. Unexpectedly, this particularly unusual weather, the temperature in various parts of Beijing and Inner Mongolia are often maintained at about 35 degrees Celsius, the body and not feeling my wife had to do anything in Shanghai. However, we feel very suited to this paradise is and would like to advance back to California, we miss California blue sky, pleasant climate, quiet neighborhood, walk to the park early in the morning, all the way to listen to the birds, the smell of flowers, a eating three meals a day of crude vegetable cooking their own light meals. The ticket is only in July was very nervous, all seats are full, you can not change the ticket, had to endure the more than thirty days in Shanghai. However, there is the opportunity to do some understanding of the status of Shanghai, also considered it a sort of unexpected. 〔5 September 2010 in Northern California〕
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