The income gap is getting bigger and bigger in China each year. People who work as shop assistants, waitresses, bike fixers etc only make 150-300 euro a month. Prices keep going up 20% annually on everything, specially food. Fruits gone up almost 40%. Salaries are NOT going anywhere because there is always someone else who will do the job if you don't!
Communism? A man pulling a wooden cart and an Audi A6 passing it...
I got a card for a store that is actually meant for restaurants here. It's called METRO and has all kinds of imported food with a tax benefit because it is for companies. How about a 10kg Edam Cheese? :)
Yesterday evening we went out driving with Kari and decided to go over the Pudong side. There is a ferry that take people over from Puxi to Pudong but it closes at 23 and we were going back to Puxi around midnight. We had to take the bridge under the river that crosses the city and when we came up from the bridge the police were there...It's not allowed to drive in the bridge with scooters. My scooter was a little faster so I came up first, the police told me that it's illegal to drive there but then let me go without any problem. But Kari got a 5 Euro fine for it. Random...
While driving outside and stopping by at the bund a truck had parked behind my scooter so I could hardly get out. But suddenly a driver from nowhere comes out and moves the truck just so I can get the scooter out. Some people here are just SO friendly.
In Pudong we went back and forth to the Finance World Center to check out the evening view, everything looks pretty small from the 93rd floor...
Found a really high end karaoke place. Fancy looking karaoke places usually work as brothels in China and I have a strong feeling that this is one of them...
Some local people like spitting (specially in smaller and less international cities than Beijing and Shanghai) so they have put up a lot of these signs...We should actually have them in Finland too for all those damn teenagers.
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