| I am a first time visitor to China and just have spent about 12 days in both Shanghai and Beijing. As I am not really into sipping beer in an european style bar I feel there is not much anymore which attracts me in Shanghai, but I certainly could have spent another interesting 2 weeks in Beijing. I'd say that for a foreigner visitor Beijing offers much more of interest. I found the people as helpful as in Shanghai if not more, but one must be a bit careful not to be overcharged for services and has to bargain hard. For living I can understand if somebody prefers Shanghai for superior variety of services offered, personally I'd prefer Beijing though. |
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