am i making a mistake by staying here in shanghai? will there be anything to do?
or is it going to be a ghost town with locals going back to farms and expats traveling somewhere nicer.

Can't speak for others (and am not in Shanghai - but close) but we are staying where we are. Just sent daughter back to my family for the holidays.

Yes, it's going to be pretty boring, but it's not easy to get away as prices are sky high so I am most likely staying put.

Where are you from? I come from Hubei and husband from Australia. At my family village is nothing to do and his home town was badly flooded so just stay here in JiaXing this holiday

Well, when is this place not boring? The good thing is that during the holidays it is easy to get around town. And you finally have time to catch up with all those things you wanted to finish, and never had time for it.

Andreas wrote:Well, when is this place not boring? .

troof. /thread

never travel in china when a billion other people are trying to travel. you will regret it.

Michael wrote:never travel in china when a billion other people are trying to travel. you will regret it.

100% truth.


I did - once. It was hell.

Michael wrote:never travel in china when a billion other people are trying to travel. you will regret it.

Especially by train!

Get a car, you cheap bastards.

I use fweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerfffffffffffffffffffffffffffff as my driver.

I use him at my ATM.


Got a Gucci bag last weekend.

Looks cute on you.

I will download QQ and stay in my room.

I will enjoy not going out in the cold for a few days and being able to sleep in

f22shift wrote:am i making a mistake by staying here in shanghai? will there be anything to do?
or is it going to be a ghost town with locals going back to farms and expats traveling somewhere nicer.

yes, it will be a ghost town
5 millions people will go to their hometown and in shanghai will be only 16 millions people left...

Michael wrote:never travel in china when a billion other people are trying to travel. you will regret it.

true.
I did it on october holidays once and it was crazy, you can think about what happens for Chinese new year...

you western big tough guys don't know the fun you miss out on. When else can you push, shove, hit people in public and get away with it? About 5 years ago we tried to get on long distance bus and husband had hold of baby. Police officer stand in door of bus and call him forward (looks bad if foreigners see all the rude chinese pushing hahahaha) but before he can get on a woman try push on but police guy push her backwards. she get angry and slapped him across face so he punched her in face. She hit the ground and husband and me get on bus when all are watching the fight hahahahaha

in every other country in the world if you slap a policeman you are close to death...

go nowhere. enjoy the show.

you do not want to be near any form of public (air/train/bus/etc) transport during the new year.

at least the streets are cleaned rapidly so you needn't walk in red crap the following day.

xin nian kuai la!

(damn... my putonghua is simply horrible now!)

Magnolia wrote:go nowhere. enjoy the show.

you do not want to be near any form of public (air/train/bus/etc) transport during the new year.

at least the streets are cleaned rapidly so you needn't walk in red crap the following day.

xin nian kuai la!

(damn... my putonghua is simply horrible now!)

le but who cares, I understood you and say thanks

gong xi fa cai

yeah..i never was much good with the le/la thing.

i blame eric clapton.

cheers!

Magnolia wrote:yeah..i never was much good with the le/la thing.

i blame eric clapton.

cheers!

no worry, should hear me talk when I have troubles with n & l and say "I nike you" etc and I just blame myself hahahaha