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Jan Wedel

Interesting! Another thing we have in common, I was living and working in Shanghai in 2007. I loved the people and the food.

Where do you live? I was living in Pudong and I could walk to the office, luckily so no need for a long commute.

But I understand that you enjoy the time that you have on your own. Sometimes, when I need to drive for a while I also enjoy listening to podcasts again.

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Tobias Nickel

I live in minhang destrict, near line one, since you where in town πŸ˜‰ the city has changed a lot. I was 2012 the first time in shamghai, as a student, and the traffic is much less crazy and much more quiet. I am happy that the last virus case is very months back.

My work office is almost on the other side of town in pudong. but,... kind of everythink on this side of the river is called pudong and it has extended very much.

it is very impressive, first I wonder what big roads they build into empty land, now there are lots of appartment towera and such.

What I like most here, is as you say the people. There is a very good attitude and the strong believe and feeling, that things get better.

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Jan Wedel

I remember when I left, they had almost finished that tower with the rectangular whole at the top. And after that I saw they’ve build a couple of even more towers.

I was living in an apartment building in Changyi Lu, somewhere around Taolin Lu. Our office was right in the center of the financial district.

The traffic on pudong side was never really a problem, back in the days but the tunnels were jammed even at 3 am. I was usually taking the bus as there was no Metro or just walking home, grabbing some Sheng Jian Bao on the go :)