My Shanghai Apartment
I just moved into a beautiful 3 bedroom 2 bath apartment on the 30th floor in Shanghai, China.
I’m going to be working from Shanghai for about 2 months. Of course, I brought my laptop with me and have a 2MB high speed internet connection from my apartment.
I booked the Shanghai apartment rental through a FANTASTIC Shanghai relocation agency. They provided me with a cell phone and picked me up from the airport. China Expats is highly recommended! :)
I explored the city a bit yesterday. It’s super crowded with 16 million people living in Shanghai alone!
The weather is usually rainy and hot, although it’s a nice day today.
P.S.
I usually use Skype to make and receive calls while abroad using the Skype In feature ($20 for 3 months + 0.02 cents/minute for outbound calls to USA). I get a local Naples, Florida phone number which forwards to my Skype computer wherever I happen to be traveling.
However, I just learned about the Skype Forwarding function (free). I have it set up so that when someone calls my regular US cell phone, it forwards to my SkypeIn number, which then forwards to my Chinese cell phone.
I only pay 0.02/cents per minute and I no longer have to use my computer to receive in bound calls! The call quality is fantastic since it’s Skype VOIP. And since I only pay for outbound calls with my Chinese cell phone, I don’t use any of my minutes. I called a few friends today and they all said the call quality sounds like I’m sitting in the next room.
July 3rd, 2008 at 3:14 am
Hey Josh,
That’s is cool that you are still traveling around the world. Mind if we ask for numbers on the cost of living in Shanghai?
If I visit Shanghai let’s hang!
God bless,
~Hoo
July 3rd, 2008 at 4:25 am
Wow Joshua, that’s a really beautiful apartment. The views are amazing.
I did exactly the same thing as you around SE Asia, completely funded my Aff stuff. Don’t get too comfortable there, your itchy feet will thank you!
July 3rd, 2008 at 7:13 am
Wow that appartment looks really nice. Not quite sure if I could live in such high rooms but you do enjoy it as I can see :-)
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Yeah… numbers. That’s my big question too. How much does a place like that run?
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Yeah J, I’ve been using skype too and very impressed with call quality…
July 4th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Josh,
Awesome place man!!!
Great catching up w/ you today via skype…
We’ll keep holdin down the fort for you here in paradise until you get back ;)
Have a great 4th buddy… Here’s to FREEDOM
-Robert
July 6th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
jealous man. very jealous!!! :)
July 6th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
That place looks awesome!
Give us, some numbers :) How much is it for a place like that?
Man I wanna gooo :) soon
July 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
Hey Josh,
Very nice place! :)
-Amit
July 17th, 2008 at 1:31 am
Nice apt. … Cell phone time is cheap in China eh ? In Chile where I was it was like 21 cents a minute for fowarding so I never did the skype out .. Plus the quality wasn’t always as good.
For my home office I noticed got better call quality with a hardware voip unit than skype in .. FYI
Enjoy your travels.