Our final few hours were spent exploring the neighborhood around Shanghai Mart (Intel’s sales & marketing office) before the driver picked us up for the hour journey to the airport. Apparently the world’s fastest train (magnetic levitating) also connects Pudong to the airport –but we haven’t figured out where the station is yet. After a week in Shanghai, United took pity on us and gave us a free upgrade to business class! The flight home was a mere 9.5 hours compared to the 13.5 hours going from the US to China. We arrived at 8:30am, 4 hours before we left. We’ve done well so far adjusting to the time difference – even took a walk to the farmers market and made it to the gym. Overall – Shanghai looks like it will be a great city to live in for a few years.
Some final thoughts:
- Biggest surprises: very “foreigner-friendly” (can find everything and survive without Chinese language skills), more spread out than expected for a city of 20M people, you can have a blue sky in China
- Thing we’ll miss most about the US: driving around in Karl’s Porsche with fresh/clean air
- Thing we’re most looking forward to: the drivers, house cleaners, and experiencing China
While we’ve not settled on an exact move date, we’re thinking about March/April.
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