I think a city is good or not, I think it can be seen from these aspects: climate, living environment, living facilities, cost of living, transportation, security, career potential, income level, human environment, food and entertainment, etc.
We can see that the city is good or not.
From the climate point of view, most of the northern part of China (north of Huaihe River) is not very good, the main reason is either the cold winter (Northeast China), or the drought and lack of water, and easy to have sandstorms in winter and spring. I personally experienced one when I was in Beijing in '99, it was really scary, and I was looking at the sand later. And the cities in the Jianghuai basin are also very cold in winter (no heating), very sad. So as far as the climate is concerned, the cities in the south are more pleasant, not cold in winter, and not very hot in summer due to the subtropical high pressure moving north. I feel that Xiamen and Zhuhai have the best climate in China. Among other coastal cities, Shanghai, Hangzhou and Ningbo are too cold in winter. Qingdao, Dalian, although there is a heater, but the winter is too humid, outdoor cold. Chengdu is one of the inland cities with a better climate. Kunming's climate is good, but because it is located on a plateau, it is too dry and very bad for the skin.
Big cities are usually inferior to small and medium-sized cities in terms of living environment. The spacing between buildings in big cities is very small because of the high land prices, which limits the comfort of living, and the degree of greening in big cities is usually low, not as good as in small and medium-sized cities, not to mention a few famous garden cities in China. Air pollution in inland cities is very serious, including Wuhan, Xi'an, Chengdu, etc. When there is no strong wind, the sky is always gray, and there is no blue sky with white clouds. Personally, I think Hangzhou, Zhuhai, Foshan and Xiamen have the best living environment in China.
Living facilities are generally better in big cities than in small and medium-sized cities. The cities in the Yangtze River Delta have the most formal and complete living facilities, and I think Shanghai should be considered the best in the country. Guangzhou, Shenzhen living facilities are also very full, is the degree of formalization is poor, fraud (store) more. Inland and northern cities in this area there is still more room for growth, there are many business opportunities in this area.
The cost of living, of course, is low in smaller cities. From a regional perspective, the cost of living in the Yangtze River Delta is the highest in the country, mainly because of the high cost of housing, Shanghai, needless to say, the country's top, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou, housing prices are also very high, pulling up the overall cost of living. The cost of food and clothing is basically the same in the big coastal cities, and lower in the inland cities. Travel costs in Shenzhen and Shanghai are very high, mainly referring to cab prices, buses are not too different. It is worth noting that the starting price of a cab in Wuhan is low, but because of the city's size, the actual cost is not low, and is considered to be higher in inland cities.
Transportation, on the whole, is poor in the big cities, and traffic jams are about the same, with Beijing and Shanghai being particularly bad. In Beijing, even with a private car, traffic is still a big problem, and the second and third ring roads are nothing more than open parking lots; the same goes for Shanghai's inner ring. The inner ring of Shanghai is the same. Shenzhen and Guangzhou are slightly better. Small and medium-sized cities in the past two years with the popularity of private cars have also begun to fall into the trouble of traffic jams. However, some cities have a low level of traffic management is also an important reason for traffic jams, such as Kunming, the city is not big, the car is not much, but the traffic jam is very bad, that is, the management level of the reason is low. Speaking of private cars, by the way, Shanghai's private car license plate has been an auction, although the law enforcement officers illegal, but also really in China's helpless move, I heard that Beijing seems to learn from Shanghai, I do not know whether it is true or not, in any case, I am in this kind of temporary residence is absolutely not buy a car.
Security: Shanghai! Definitely the second best in China, after Hong Kong. In many cities I've traveled to, people have kindly advised me not to go out alone at night to avoid accidents. In Shanghai at night no matter how late one person out will be fine. Some cities in the Yangtze River Delta are also very safe, such as Hangzhou and Suzhou. I can't say the same for Guangdong, and Beijing is not very good, although there are plenty of police.
Career potential: Shenzhen and Shanghai. The two have their own unique characteristics: Shanghai is more suitable for people who are on track, company white-collar - gold-collar - executives or self-employment; Shenzhen is more suitable for those who want to leapfrog development, company white-collar - self-employment. However, these two years always feel that Shenzhen's policy advantage is getting smaller and smaller, and the lack of humanistic heritage caused by the obstacles are getting bigger and bigger, mainly in the government's ruling level is very low, the original strong policy advantage as a complementary can be stronger than Shanghai, now may have been reversed. Shanghai's problem is that the cost of living is too high, even if working, if you start a business, the cost of starting a business has been pulled up a lot. In the future, Ningbo, Suzhou and Wuxi in the Yangtze River Delta, Tianjin and Dalian in the Bohai Bay, and Xi'an and Chengdu in the interior of the country are all places with great potential for career development. In the Pearl River Delta, there is only Shenzhen, and the rest of the world is a little worse.
Income level: Shenzhen is the highest! There's really no doubt about it. Here refers to the per capita income level, rather than which person, if we talk about personal words, Xinjiang Tang brothers, Dalian's Yang Bin, are higher than the altar and 99.99% of the people in Beijing and Shanghai! Shenzhen is the highest because of its demographic structure, the vast majority of immigrants in that city are young people, of course, high. To say that the average income level of white-collar workers, I personally think that Shanghai is higher, because Shanghai's white-collar workers from the number of people to be more, the overall quality does not have to be worse than Beijing, stronger than Shenzhen. This, coupled with Shanghai's consistently higher salary levels, has resulted in the current outcome.
Human environment: Beijing is much stronger than Shanghai and Shenzhen. But I personally think that Xi'an is stronger than Beijing in terms of cultural tradition. Beijing's cultural heritage is very deep, but it is mixed with a lot of decadent, downtrodden Manchu atmosphere; while Xi'an really embodies the Xiongmai Han culture.
Dining and entertainment: Personally, I would recommend Chengdu the most! Although the food in Chengdu is not so refined, Chengdu is definitely a good place for entertainment and leisure, perhaps too leisure, so where people are more lazy, nourishing but not nurturing. However, I like it and will be coming there to retire! In synthesis 。。。。。 There's no way to synthesize, it's hard to say exactly which city is the best. I wish I lived in Hangzhou or Xiamen right now, but I have to make money in Shanghai; the museums in Beijing and Xi'an are my favorites, but the climate is just a bit too much for me to handle; the snacks in Chengdu are my favorite, but it's just too laid back and only good for retirement! Chongqing and Dalian have a lot of beautiful women, but I already have a girlfriend! Oh. Contradiction ah, but also normal, things are not perfect, this is the dialectical unity of the world.