Shanghai

During Chu-seok, Korean Thanksgiving, we celebrated by going out for Chinese. The Shanghai sky-line reminds me of Sim-City. Maybe it was the holiday, but the atmosphere (despite high concentrations of CO2) downtown was cheerful. People seemed happy to be with their families and were enjoying the evening. There wasn’t that tenebrous feeling you expect from a country shrouded by the red flag. Denizens of Shanghai on average have the highest standard of living in China, so there might be something to that…can the RMB buy happiness?