Now that we’ve successfully left China (with our reputations and government standing intact, we hope!), we wanted to quickly lay out the process for others facing the same upcoming challenge. Just like when we were...
Wow. Just, wow. In a blink of an eye, we’ve past our two-year China-versary. That’s a milestone on so many fronts, and it reminds me once again that ‘the days are long but the years are short.’ There is nothing...
You are now the reader of a blog run by two legitimate F1 fans. Bet you didn’t see that coming, eh? For some background, we have a group of friends that are all F1 fanatics, and we congregated at local sports...
If there is one rule we’ve heard a million times about travel in China, it is to avoid going to Chinese tourist sites on holidays. We’ve all seen the horror show photos of choking crowds spending their much...
We love sharing our experiences as Shanghai expats, including our advice for adjusting to expat life in a crazy city of over 20 million. Yes, there are a lot of people, the metro is brutal at rush hour, and sometimes...
Shanghai has no shortage of apartments spread across a sprawling metropolis of over 24 million people. What makes Shanghai unique is the existence of lane houses – sometimes called “old houses”...