Shanghai is a city with split personality, someone says.
I totally agree with the point.
As a local Shanghainese who was born in Shanghai, studied in Shanghai and almost everything in Shanghai, I really love the city while hating it meantime.
How could I say that? The answer is straight because you will find so many unclear situations in the city.
For instance, can you say Xintiandi is great or not?
Xintiandi is regarded as a symbol of vogue in Shanghai by someone but others especially the typical Shanghainese will reject the comment.
They think Xintiandi is just a horrible combination roughly by Shanghai and western culture to attract tourists' eyes (and money surely).
I follow the latter judgement.
Question: Who will go to Xintiandi besides foreigners?
Talking of the persons. Shanghai boys are mainly greater than girls here.
Boys are always trying to make life better not only for their own but for the girls they love respectively.
However, girls in Shanghai are always seeking the chance to meet 'the better boys' they imagine for in the city.
Whenever I talk with girls with the topic of love, I ask them how about your Mr. Right recently?
For many times, the answer could be the question who knows he is my Mr. Right.
For that reason, Shanghai boys lack confidence day by day, case by case, I think.
The bad habit also influences girls who come to Shanghai from the provinces, which makes the matter more rediculous than ever before.
One of my friend, just call him Mike here, got a girlfriend who was from the west China early this year.
Both of them work for a FORTUNE 500 company. So what happens next?
From the very beginning, Mike's girlfriend feels good with him. As born Shanghainese, Mike teaches her a lot about the city definitly.
Day by day, case by case, the story changes.
Once Mike's girlfriend found Xintiandi as a place for exitement, she made it crazy and frequent.
When she got foreign friends from the western (surely not her villager in west China, I mean Americans or Europeans.) there, the matter turned further as you could imagine then.
Someone says that Xintiandi is a window to see the world outside the city through, that's right but unfair.
Who needs such a window with day-dream, broken heart for one party at least and greedy mood filling in the air of the place?
You need? Or Am I out? Who knows!
For months later, Mike turned to me.
I asked him why not get the next?
He replied uncertainly,'Who knows? Maybe worse?'
Whatever, probably he is right...
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