Some of my answers that I sent already:
I lived for 19 years+ in China and saw these cases. They are slow UNTIL they
don't receive money. Usually they want bribery (money) to become faster and to do their job. It's not CCP (which is dead, murders by Xi), it's the "culture of bribery", the corruption.
Yes, but they do it on purpose. The animal is naturally slow 🦥, but she is doing it probably on purpose. 😅
Shanghai is not good for your health (air pollution, noise pollution, too crowded), and it's difficult for the ascending. I never recommend it to anybody. I was there three times. I visited Suzhou too -- the perfect place, compared to Shanghai...
Yes, we can't be greedy and miss all that we cannot have. But when you don't have basic things or you struggle to achieve them like house and food, then you can't stay calm and you need to worry.
Yes. Like all those from Tokyo, New York, Beijing and Paris who think that only their huge cities worth... I know this phenomenon. From outside it's clear: Beijing or New York are so expensive, dirty, crowded, noisy, full of crimes and there are 1000 places better than these in China or the US but Beijingers and New Yorkers think that they are in the best possible city...
Anyway, you don't need to think so much about them because, yes it's true (one also called me 普信男 and I had to explain her how she is just an undeveloped little person who even don't know if will graduate or die in a war, but I am already graduated and even have achievements... but abroad this knowledge is 0.
For example, in Japan they are going to measure your Japanese language, skills, looks and how well you know them. So, spending energy on Chinese issues like Chinese girls or the Chinese environment isn't profitable.