The Bubble

The Kerry Center is where I will be working when in Shanghai. As I have wrote before it has a hotel with 32 floors, four restaurants in the hotel, largest gym in any hotel, separate residence condos, 60+ floor business tower, a mall and subway station all in the same city block.  The mall has a grocery store and 20+ restaurants.  Everything is very new, western and pricey. We have come to realize the Kerry parkside puts a bubble around us.  Once you venture to the Puxi district you are out of the bubble.  This is going to be quite the learning experience.  We met a Westerner that gave us his four rules of living in Shanghai:

1. When crossing a street the pecking order is bus, truck, car, motorcycle, moped, electric bike, rickshaw, bike and then pedestrian.  Pedestrians never have any rights.
2. If you would not do something in New York city do not do it in Shanghai
3. You eat with your mouth.  Chopsticks just get the food close, always feel for objects within your mouth and do not be embarrassed to spit anything foreign out.  (I have never had to spit anything out)
4. Have fun

All good rules to live by.