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Expats prefer Beijing, Shanghai

Zablam said he hopes the government takes concrete measures to clean up the air.

"Our foreign colleagues have concerns about Beijing's air quality when they are asked to make a business trip to the capital," an employee of headhunter Adecco Description's Shanghai office said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

"Shanghai is definitely my favorite Chinese city," said William Hatcher, who has been living and working in the metropolis for about two years, after living in Changsha, Hunan province, for two years. Hatcher said the difference between the two cities is like " night and day ".

Hatcher, a 25-year-old English-language teacher from the United States, said the best part of Shanghai is the variety of food, culture, people and places to go, while the disadvantage is dealing with the bureaucracy when applying for things like visa renewals.

"It's tolerable, but can be frustrating," Hatcher said.

He said he is not worried about the environment problems, adding: "After all, they are not as bad as in Beijing."

But for James Eron, a US citizen and father of two girls, air pollution and food safety have been the biggest worries related to his girls' health. And his solution is having air purifiers in his house and trying to eat organic food and at well-known places.

What appeals most to the 43-year-old entrepreneur, who now owns a cloud computing and server operations company in Shanghai, is the "multiculture" of Shanghai, which has people from different places.