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[quote=CLAUDIUS,253515]Frankenstein, do you think the aim of the policy is to keep the poor away from Shanghai?
Even so, it is still debatable. Shanghai has a lot of aspiring individuals, but many a times they are crossing the line into proverty as probably the top 1% can make it. While the average can still survive, the bottom ranks may turn to crime out of desparation. For example, I was on the phone with a friend who was walking back to her apartment in the night. She is a Shanghainese and firmly believed that her street (a place she grew up) is safe even if its at 3am. In the next moment, she got robbed while talking me. The 'poor' robber covered her mouth from behind and asked her not to scream, adding that he meant no harm and was just desparate. He snatched her purse away but after my friend listened to his story, gave it back to her. She gave him 100rmb, thoroughly relieved that she met an amatuer robber who was even willing to negotiate the amount he could rob from her. She reckons he is educated and had came from other province to make a living in Shanghai but had fallen to bad times for a while.

In reality, packs of these people live together in a rented apartment. Some of my staff are living this way, most of the time with their friends from the same province. Some of them were really disillusioned, trapped between their ideals and reality and they do nothing but to loiter around gaming centres and the streets.

Maybe that is one of the solutions to curb the expanding disparity in income in the society, personally it came to me in no surprise as this is consistent to the style of governance in China. Shanghai just can't take the poor as priority (which is why I left!).

By the way, there are already existing policies against couple who are living together. It is under the Marriage Act. Couples living together can be considered lawfully wed after a certain period of time, if the man is already married, he can be charged with 'chong hun' (which is literally, getting married more than once). The law is extended foreigners as well.[/quote]

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