| Somehow, I feel this web site must be frequently visited by young people with no school age kids as I see seldom the discussion on education cost in Shanghai. If you are foreigner coming to Shanghai not under an expat package, you will find that you are most likely not able to afford the school education cost for your kids. They are major major part of Shanghai cost. I have a friend who is a chinese native but spent years overseas and returned back to China only to find that he has such a hard time finding a school with reasonable cost for his kid. Problem? His kids not yet able to adjust to local school due to language, system and other gaps and more important, almost all local school will not accept a student with foreign passport. The next option is international school and the cost is certainly not affortable (8-20kUS$) and then the middle groud chinese private school which still cost 10000-30000RMB per year with language, system, gap still the problem as they still only use chinese books for class. Please do not ignor this major expense for living in Shanghai. Eddie |
Living Cost in Shanghai (2007 Edition)