Shanghai'd

New house.

Last weekend, Laurel and I moved into our Xin jia in Pudong to be closer to the office. AMD is already out there (there being Zhang Jiang hi-tech park in the eastern boonies), and NI will be moving next door in a few weeks.

The new place is much smaller, but also much more comfortable and well built then the old. Hopefully no more floods! We're on the 25th floor, which definitely gives you the feel of living in a big city. The interior is very modern Asian - the landlord's wife built much of the furniture herself.


Our apartment complex is a model of high-density living. By my rough estimate there are about 40 high-rise building in the complex. Each building has 26 floors, with 4 units per floor. Roughly figuring 2 people per unit (I'm sure many have much more than this, but factoring occupancy, etc, this is a pretty safe estimate), this works out to:

40 buildings x 26 floors/bldg x 4 units/floor x 2 people/unit = 8320 neighbors.

Amazingly, this number is EXACTLY twice the entire year 2000 census population of my home town, Niwot, Colorado, which comes in at 4160.

In terms of population density (I estimate the area of our apartment complex as 1/8km²):

Niwot, Colorado - 397/km²
Shanghai overall - 2,700/km²
Our new apartment - 66,560/km²
Huangpu district of Shanghai - 126,500/km²

So I guess it could be even more crowded, but I'm not sure how.