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Q: Does your city have specific areas/buildings where most expats live?
Perhaps Beijing is different from other bigger cities in this respect, but a large number of the expats I've met here live in very, very specific areas or even the same buildings:
Dongwangzhuang or Funrun Jiayuan in Wudaokou
Yongkang Hutong area of Andingmen
Ming'an Xiaoqu in Dongzhimen
Shunyi north of the city (families mostly)
Sihui and Shuangjing subway stops by CBD
etc...
If you live in a bigger city, does it too have areas that are seemingly overrun by foreigners?
I live in the Muxidi area of Beijing, just before the Military Museum for nearly two years. As far as I have been able to tell, I seem to be the only Westerner living in this particular area.
My country has areas in some cities in which mostly Chinese live. We call it Chinatown. Maybe the Chinese should call these foreign enclaves "Laowaishi".
I live in one of these overpriced laowei ghettos. When going down to the local shop there is about 50% chance I will run into other foreigners, and the local bar will have foreigners enjoying beer, every night. I heard that the "foreign population" in the community we live in is about 5%.
Yeah it's called the business district or CBD. There are many foreigners scattered about but this place and also you'd find foreigners living close to the embassies.
