It was not a nice building, but the room had been recently refinished. It had a small living room/ kitchen and the bedroom was the size of a closet. The bed was rock hard. My one window looked on to the back side of the Portman Ritz-Carlton, which could be considered the Mecca of Shanghai's western (at least American) high society in those days - this was before Pudong had become Shanghai's center of gravity.
I try to feel nostalgia for those days, but compared to Thailand, there was no romance in being poor. Shanghai is a city that is very efficient at measuring your value and the value of your experience by the amount of money in your ATM.
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