50 Things You'll Miss If You Leave Shanghai
For all the hassles, noise and traffic etc., Shanghai has a lot of great features you just can’t find anywhere else. Here’s a list of all the things you will miss if/when you ever decide to leave Shanghai:
1. Free Wifi in the metro
2. Inexpensive, amazing food is everywhere
3. You always feel safe walking around at night.
4. Speed trains go everywhere (Beijing, Yunnan, Xi'an, Kunming!)
5. Skyscrapers that just keep getting taller
6. No hills! A blessing for walkers, runners and bike riders.
7. Autumn lasts so long
8. Nightlife everywhere
9. Easy to find a great rooftop view
10. Fine diner’s paradise
11. Fancy Pizza Huts
12. Very old restaurants
13. Free martial arts parformances!
14. Old people are happy, friendly and awesome
15. Easy to fly to other destinations
16. Luxury flaunted everywhere
17. Custom tailor everything
18. Pajama street people
19. Ayi dance parties
20. Grandpas with kites
21. Free gyms eveywhere
22. Family Mart Parties
23. Naps, naps all over the place
24. Affordable cleaning ladies
25. DVD heaven
26. Fake markets
27. There’s always something new opening
28. Crazy architecture
29. Chinglish signs
30. Enormous group dinners
31. Crazy museums
32. Lot’s of art
33. Little dogs – hmmmm, actually you probably won’t miss those.
34. Affordable massages
35. Free condoms
36. Get anything delivered anytime
37. Smoke anywhere… at least until it’s banned in March
38. Jianbing breakfast
39. Squatty potties – you might not miss them, but you’ll certainly remember them!
40. All the hanging laundry
41. Everything looks inredibly dangerous
42. English t-shirts that are awesome
43. Viral beauty challenges that make no sense
44. Watch Korean TV drama’s on people’s iphones in the metro
45. Cheap fruit
46. Amazing variety of cheap street food
47. Easy to hop around from one place to another
48. Easy to make friends
49. Unnecessarily high number of employees everywhere
50. The internet is so fast… oh wait no that’s not true at all, sorry.