Posted by Lily (homechina2004@yahoo.com) (1380 days ago)
Welcome to China. Both Beijing and Shanghai are an ideal place for you to develop your business and to live. They are all most dynamic and biggest cities in China with driving forces in economic development and, most importantly, abundant talent resources available for hunting. According to the statistics, there are almost 230,000 permanent expatriate residents living in Beijing whereas more than 100,000 living in Shanghai. So as one of them, it won’t proved to be a big problem for you to live in the metropolitan-scaled city. Particularly, Beijing is preparing herself better as a cosmopolitan city for the coming 2008 Olympic Games. So probably you would expect more than you can if you choose this old and young city. Now I will briefly answer your question regarding living in Beijing.
Accommodation in Beijing
Finding a place to live in Beijing really depends on your budget and where you choose to live. Expatriate coming to Beijing could have different choises to make such as villa or apartment, legal expatriate or local housing. Usually, USD2,500-5,000 could have a house in Shunyi villa area(near airport), USD2,000-3,000 could have a decent 3bedroom western apartment, and USD1,000 or so could have not-bad apartment like local people live. If you want to live in Expat neighbor-hood. there are number of high-end residential expat communities scattered in Chaoyang District and intensively in Shunyi City such as Beijing Rivera, River Garden, Capital Paradise , Dynasty and so on. You can also log on to our Website of www.easyrentchina.com for details, hope it is helpful to you.
Schooling in Beijing
A number of international schools are running successfully both in down town working areas (near Embassy areas) and in the expatriate residential communities. You can check the British School of Beijing that located at Sanlitun area. Of course other schools such as ISB, BISS, IAB & WAB, could be considerable. We are pleased to help you with this if you decide to come to Beijing
Hospital in Beijing
There are many international standard clinics provide a complete spectrum of healthcare services with English speaking staff and western physicians, which can leave your another major concern behind. The best known are SOS, Beijing United Family Hospital and Clinic, Beijing Vista Clinic, Hong Kong International Medical Clinic( Beijing), etc.
Western grocery stuffs in Beijing
Most expatriate communities has small grocery stores/mini markets serve imported food as well as America food; For the famous ones, you can try Jenny Lou’s(little chain of grocery shops offers a great assortment of western food, such as Italian pasta, cereals, canned food, cheese, fresh vegetables and fruit, imported wines as well as liquor), April Gourmet(provide high-end imported foods and fabulous different sorts of cheeses) , Carrefour, etc.
For more questions, pls. feel free to email us at homechina2004@yahoo.com. We are pleased to assist you and help you with any daily problems you may encounter
