> expensive catering for lunch Having lunch at work is not at all unusual in China, though usually at a lower budget. > a submarine article artfully placed...

> expensive catering for lunch Having lunch at work is not at all unusual in China, though usually at a lower budget. > a submarine article artfully placed... I dunno man, I haven't been to Shenzhen, but the last time I was in Shanghai was mid-2017. I felt like Silicon Valley was some remote backwater. It's not just about shining new buildings. The Shanghai subways are new and shiny, has advanced adtech, and most importantly, does not smell at all like pee (Bart riders know what I'm talking about), and it runs every 2-3 minutes. It takes 3-ish hours to go from Beijing to Shanghai by high speed rail, which is also shiny, new, and has a really nice business class. Anything you need with 2-hour shipping, not 2-day shipping. Not just the limited selection Amazon deigns to put on Prime Now (which typically does not include hardware components). When I work on an Arduino hobby project, and I suddenly need a component my local Fry's doesn't have, I don't have to wait 2 weeks for shipping. In China, I'd be able to walk to the market and get it the same day. Look, I still choose to live in Silicon Valley, but admittedly, in Shanghai, there were zero people pooping in the streets, and during the entire time I was there, I was ranted at or yelled at by a complete stranger exactly zero times. And number of times I have been followed by a creepy stranger in Shanghai who might do me harm: zero.