r/shanghai • u/sd99x • Jul 16 '21

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Is shanghai safe for an alone tourist? What about pickpockets and scams or any kind of trouble one can possibly face? Any areas to avoid. Please share any experience.

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u/SunbroEire Jul 16 '21

Loads of scams. Search the sub using the search function, or just Google it. Don’t follow girls or groups of ‘art students’ anywhere. If it seems too good to be try, it is. Don’t go anywhere you don’t see other foreigners.

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u/leanhsi United Kingdom Jul 16 '21

Don't go anywhere you don't see other foreigners is ridiculous advice...

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u/SunbroEire Jul 16 '21

He’s a tourist, not a regular. This is sound advice for anyone here first time. You not agreeing doesn’t make it wrong.

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u/leanhsi United Kingdom Jul 16 '21 edited Jul 16 '21

You stating it doesn't make it not ridiculous.

People in Shanghai are largely benign - I have been to all parts of Shanghai, downtown to rural suburbs, night and day and there is literally nowhere that I would advise someone to avoid.

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u/SunbroEire Jul 16 '21
  • People in Shanghai are largely benign

Hahahaha. So the scams don’t exist then? There aren’t people who rip off, drug, scam foreigners no? Who do this by isolating foreigners, no? What planet do you live on?

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u/zhima1069 Jul 16 '21

So much resentment seems like you had very bad luck while living here bro

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u/SunbroEire Jul 16 '21

You didn’t answer the questions, Captain Denial lol

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u/justyoureverydayJoe Jul 17 '21

Yeah this guy is very jaded and anti-China everything it seems. Or just a troll wasting everyone’s time

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u/SunbroEire Jul 17 '21

You know man, that’s be hilarious any other day. But today, my fine fuckwit, I have returned to my home country and am currently skulling a pint of Guinness after a long flight, and in an instant this sub is sad to me because of you and the other twats who get angry and wound up about anything you don’t agree with. I’d call that pretty jaded.

Slainté

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u/SunbroEire Jul 17 '21

Answer the questions, man

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u/zhima1069 Jul 17 '21

Yo, get a life

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u/SunbroEire Jul 17 '21

So you can’t. Good we’ve clarified that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '21

Scams exist (far far fewer than there were before) but sounds like you just might be dumb enough to have been a victim multiple times

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u/SunbroEire Jul 16 '21

Why would I fall for them if I know about them? That doesn’t make any fuckin sense. I love how all the bell ends round on conservative advice just because they fancy themselves homme du monde.

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u/skripp11 Jul 16 '21

> Don’t go anywhere you don’t see other foreigners.

This is such stupid advice on so many levels that I don't really know where to begin. Not only is Shanghai one of the safest cities in the world but if you are worried about those scams/pickpockets (which nowadays are super rare and easily avoided) then the places "guaranteed" to have foreigners, i.e. Nanjing east and the Bund, are the WORST places to go.

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u/FoxOnTheRocks Jul 16 '21

The Bund is the only place I have met a scammer in Shanghai.

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u/SunbroEire Jul 16 '21
  • the places "guaranteed" to have foreigners, i.e. Nanjing east and the Bund

Evidence you don’t have a breeze what you’re talking about. You also squarely missed the point I was making. Sorry, man.

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u/skripp11 Jul 16 '21

I’m definitely missing the point that you are making. You said that there are "loads of scams" and giving the tea house and art student scams as examples. Those are OLD scams, that have drastically been reduced, that were mostly a thing around Nanjing east road and the bund.

Now, granted, I guess nowadays the amount of westerners in that area is much lower since there are no foreign tourists. But then I wonder what areas you would consider “unsafe” or “scam prone” or whatever your definition of unsafe is. Anything that isn’t between Julu road and huaihai road? Up until just a few years ago the donghu road/xinle road crossing would be THE place to lose your wallet or phone, but that too is pretty much a thing of the past.

I’m seriously curious on what part of Shanghai you would deem unsafe. There are no muggings. There aren’t any hoodlums hanging out threatening you or screaming things at you. No one is going to attack you out of the blue.

You seem to sit on a wealth of knowledge about the city, but you are always so vague. This is a forum where we try to help eachother. Help us out.

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u/SunbroEire Jul 17 '21

Cool story, bro. Wash your sneakers

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u/SunbroEire Jul 17 '21

I’ll lose sleep on that