Since I’m here, I already get used to the fast change/improvement of this city.
Partially is because of the expo, so I guess after October, when expo is over, Shanghai is going to have less change; partially is because in [more or less] 20years this city, and the country as well, changed its economy from agriculture, to industry (manufacturing any kind of product) and now finance. Like for any thing: fast change can be good or bad; it's according to your personal point of view.
When I arrived in Shanghai there were less than nine metro lines, now are twelve and I have a train station close to my flat. Metro is fast and cheap, but during the night, when metro is closed, there is always a taxi that you can call by weaving your arms. And now, thanks to expo, some taxi drivers can speak a little bit of English. Public transportation: improved.
Shanghai is the richest city in China, here a lot of [may be too many now that expo is on?] expat are leaving/working/studying. There are magazine published just for expat; place (like restaurants or lounge) designed for them; shops where Chinese will never buy a things. Most of the foreigners don’t speak any Mandarin: English is enough for live, even if you have Chinese friends. This city from the last two years was more and more designed/built for foreigners, than for Chinese. Shanghai is spoiling expat; this city is not the real China. As soon as you step out, the scenery is totally changed. Too bad being spoiled: where can I live, after?
Just looking at my neighbourhood [I’m speaking about the street where I live, because once, a Chinese friend of mine, he told me that Ji’an district is my neighbourhood (6km far from where I stay)], every month a shop shuts down and something new open. Till now I was thinking it was cool. But last week, after a month of renovation, a new clothes shop opens where used to be a market. Well, during my first week in Shanghai [April 2008] when I moved in in what now I call my home [sweet home] I had to buy everything but the furniture. In that market I bought my first blanket, my first pair of chopstick, my first pot, my first noodles meal: all my first things, basically. When I was passing outside, a nostalgic mood rise in all my body and in my mind pop up the memory of what I was at that time compare to what I’m now. Shanghai destroys the memory and romantic feeling.
Moving on, improve, develop, change: it can be good; but from time to time you need a fix point to balance your life. I’ve to find a new one.
Wish me luck.
Ofelia
Partially is because of the expo, so I guess after October, when expo is over, Shanghai is going to have less change; partially is because in [more or less] 20years this city, and the country as well, changed its economy from agriculture, to industry (manufacturing any kind of product) and now finance. Like for any thing: fast change can be good or bad; it's according to your personal point of view.
When I arrived in Shanghai there were less than nine metro lines, now are twelve and I have a train station close to my flat. Metro is fast and cheap, but during the night, when metro is closed, there is always a taxi that you can call by weaving your arms. And now, thanks to expo, some taxi drivers can speak a little bit of English. Public transportation: improved.
Shanghai is the richest city in China, here a lot of [may be too many now that expo is on?] expat are leaving/working/studying. There are magazine published just for expat; place (like restaurants or lounge) designed for them; shops where Chinese will never buy a things. Most of the foreigners don’t speak any Mandarin: English is enough for live, even if you have Chinese friends. This city from the last two years was more and more designed/built for foreigners, than for Chinese. Shanghai is spoiling expat; this city is not the real China. As soon as you step out, the scenery is totally changed. Too bad being spoiled: where can I live, after?
Just looking at my neighbourhood [I’m speaking about the street where I live, because once, a Chinese friend of mine, he told me that Ji’an district is my neighbourhood (6km far from where I stay)], every month a shop shuts down and something new open. Till now I was thinking it was cool. But last week, after a month of renovation, a new clothes shop opens where used to be a market. Well, during my first week in Shanghai [April 2008] when I moved in in what now I call my home [sweet home] I had to buy everything but the furniture. In that market I bought my first blanket, my first pair of chopstick, my first pot, my first noodles meal: all my first things, basically. When I was passing outside, a nostalgic mood rise in all my body and in my mind pop up the memory of what I was at that time compare to what I’m now. Shanghai destroys the memory and romantic feeling.
Moving on, improve, develop, change: it can be good; but from time to time you need a fix point to balance your life. I’ve to find a new one.
Wish me luck.
Ofelia
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If you are moving, you must to look forward
I found my stability: orso minuscolone.
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