$450 a month to eat and live, that's amazing. My girlfriend told me if I moved to China, and once are kids are grown up, we'd have everything we needed on a thousand dollars a month. Unless we wanted a car, double that she said. If you live in a place like Shanghai, a car seems to be an inconveniant item, it's just too easy getting around that city using buses, the subway and all the cheap taxis.
One thing that confuses me is the cost of property and the price of rents. The cost of an avereage apartment in Shanghai seems to be about $500,000, yet rents seems to be so low.