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4 In San Jose Already

Jianshuo,

Here's a page that has your email address, it's an image but that only blocks s-p-a-m-e-r-s without an OCR engine:

http://www.wangjianshuo.com/personal/me/contact.htm
Posted by eraera at 2005-12-07 11:03:49. More

3 Flying to SFO

xyzah,

I think Jianshuo is on his plane coming over to the valley, so let me answer part of your question here. Hope Jianshuo will not mind. :)

No, you will not live in a dump. The majority of cost lies in buying a condo + car, but if you are renting and using public transportation, then you are fine. I'm not sure how good your Madrine is, and if you are Asian or not, if your Madrine is good and you're Asian-looking, then you can live in there as if you're native. :)

There are affordable rent places in Shanghai that are near convinent public transportation. For example, search Jianshuo's blog for "Meilong" to find where he used to live before getting his condo. I used to live in the neighbourhood, it's not new (10+ years I guess), but very convinent, with bus stops out on the street, Shanghai Metro within walking distance, several supermarkets, banks, ATMs, restaurants, and newspaper stands, and a university nearby. Don't expect the neighbourhood to be very clean, though.

I lived in the area for 2 years before I moved to the States, so my info might be a bit out of date, the rent I got for a not-so-good apt was 700RMB, that's < $100 a month. So if you want to get a newer apt it may double.

Sorry that I cannot answer your other questions.
Posted by eraera at 2005-12-05 23:45:55. More

2 Flying to SFO

Jianshuo,

I sent an email to your hotmail account 2 days ago but got no reply, hope we can have a talk while you're in the valley.

Have a nice trip,

eraera
Posted by eraera at 2005-12-05 11:22:56. More

1 Craigslist's Success

1st and the only one: Craigslist does not require an account. Most users only want to try it once, and after the first business completed, they start to love it.

This is actually a double-sided sword, Craig has to manually find and delete spam and other junks.

One comment: maybe you need to ask the top 5 reasons people do *not* love craigslist as well?

--eraera: someone who was born from a city near the one you were born, graduated from the same univ., know MVM, isaac mao and Paul Denlinger, being your wife's co-worker for sometime and still reading your blog to learn about Shanghai from the other end of the tiny flat world...
Posted by eraera at 2005-11-27 01:16:33. More