| Dear Jian Shuo,
Thanks for your very informative post which reminded me that it's not that easy to move within China. I recall when I was living in Shanghai last year, a friend had so much trouble trying to get a Hukou in Shanghai. Admittedly China and US are at very different stages of development. The former is a developing country where people are just trying to get ahead by going to the big cities with more opportunities whereas the latter is a fully developed country where people are looking for better quality of life in smaller cities and want to escape the rat race. In the longer term when China becomes richer, the preference for surburbs or smaller city living should increase. Also thanks to everyone else for their very insightful comments. |
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