Shanghai

24,870,895 residents

Shanghai feels highly urban and convenient, but not always warm or easy for outsiders. Residents and visitors describe a city with cheap transit, strong food options, and impressive skyline districts, alongside real friction from language barriers, scammy dating scenes, smoky taxis, and a shrinking expat ecosystem. Day to day it can feel surprisingly calm in some places and times, with empty subways, uncrowded landmark areas, and very late-night mobility that makes the city feel usable around the clock. At the same time, people talk about a city that has changed fast: old neighborhoods, street life, and parts of the international social scene have thinned out, leaving a place that feels more polished, more local, and less carefree than before.

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