For a truly cosmopolitan experience in China, Shanghai is the city of choice for many foreigners. Shanghai is stylish; it is highly commercialized; it is vibrant with the intense energy of only the very largest modern metropolis in the world. It boasts of futuristic skyscrapers and architecture and the latest innovations in transportation; and it is also home to large manufacturing centers and industrial complexes which provide its huge working class population with a means of living. If you want to live and search for your ideal life mate in a Chinese city that will constantly stimulate all your senses, then you should make Shanghai your new home away from home. The fact that Chinese women are probably the most attuned to Western culture is a nice bonus for Western men seeking a Chinese life partner.

Shanghai is a living and breathing entity, much like Manhattan and Los Angeles, with its thousands of high-rise commercial buildings, hotels, shopping centers, and apartment complexes and dense population keeping the city abuzz 24/7. The city is a veritable treat for the senses. The air is pregnant with the aroma of all kinds of food being cooked on sidewalks and with the sounds of traffic, both human and machine. The city is a vision of vivid life, with its thousands-of-miles-long narrow backstreets and wider, main avenues crowded with people engaging in all sorts of business. It radiates a feverish rhythm in its continuous and tireless metamorphosis and which spills over its inhabitants like a palpable energy that fuels their hectic activities.

The landscape of Shanghai has exploded both vertically and horizontally in physical size, and the city has also hugely grown in population; and it is still growing. While this means more choices of ladies for a foreign man, as well as more excitement and adventure, the metropolis can also be too crowded and too crazy a place for a man looking to settle down. As with any living, breathing, and growing metropolis, it has pollution and traffic congestion problems that do not make it the most ideal place to live a laid-back life and start a family. Shanghai would definitely have a strong appeal to single, foreign men who love the hustle and bustle of the urban lifestyle.

Being in Shanghai can be both a humbling and stimulating experience, with its magnificent, daring, and futuristic infrastructures and technology. The city’s modern treasures include the cutting edge Maglev train; thousands of miles of crisscrossing, multi-level expressways; the world’s longest sea bridge, the Hangzhou Bay Bridge; and the longest cable-stayed bridge, the Sutong Bridge.

The old parts of the city are also those that offer tourist attractions: the Bund, Frenchtown, and Nanjing Road are all in Puxi. For a day of sightseeing, walking around is the most recommended option; the city streets are very easy to remember and one would only waste hours getting stuck in Shanghai’s hopelessly congested roads. Riding a cab is the next best thing if one wants to visit tourist spots, mostly because subways do not have stations at many tourist destinations, buses are often crowded and are tricky to sort out, and bicycles can also get gridlocked in heavy traffic.

You can’t go wrong entertaining the Chinese woman of your dreams in Shanghai, and even if she is from a different Chinese locale, you’d do well to bring her to this fabulous city if you really want to impress.

For entertainment, a foreign traveler will simply be overwhelmed by the long list of restaurants, clubs, bars, and other entertainment spots enumerated in individual guidebooks. Shanghai offers world-class entertainment that comes in a wide selection of international flavors, as well as the best in high-end shopping. The city also boasts of its amazing arts and culture, with China’s world-famous Chinese acrobatics, classical music, opera, theater, and puppetry.

Having praised the city to the maximum, there is a downside. Meeting and living with the people of Shanghai, a foreign man would soon discover for himself, with not much surprise, that they are more westernized and worldly than other Chinese, and that they have a tendency to be straightforward, brusque, and haughty. They have often been compared to New Yorkers, with their superior and self-important attitude. In fact, it is often said that Shanghainese set themselves apart from the rest of China, dismissing most other Chinese as backward. For a foreign man, dealing with such attitudes may seem all too familiar. Nonetheless, he would not be far-off in his expectations of a Shanghai woman being “a modern woman of the world,” very sophisticated and stylish.