Top 5 Chinese provinces with the best quality of life? (cost, people, cons)
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If you take away cities, though, it would be Jiangsu, Inner Mongolia (surprise), Zhejiang, Liaoning, Guangdong.
Of course GDP isn't everything.
I would probably say Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangdong, Liaoning and Fujian personally, since a lot of Inner Mongolia's wealth doesn't translate into wealth for the locals. The other provinces have more developed infrastructure too.
I think if you took away the cities, Yunnan would be in the top 3. Climate, air quality and water are all clean and of good quality. The problem is it's far from anything and it's tough to find employment (unless you want to teach for low pay). Shanghai, Guangdong, Taiwan, HK and Macau I think are the obvious top choices IMO. Beijing is too spread out and the air is ridiculous.
Uhh... HK and Macau are both special administrative regions in the Canton (Guangdong) Province. Also, I would not consider Taiwan as a province of China either.
If you are talking solely about development, then the obvious choices.
If you are looking at cost of living vs. wages, people, lifestyle, etc., then Sichuan (Chengdu), Yunnan (Kunming), Hainan (Haikou), Fujian (Xiamen), Shandong (Qingdao).
Quality of life is Beijing is not that great. Worst smoke, North Amerca style Sprawl, horrendous traffic and a housing price comparable to San Francisco. It has the worst of everything.
Put HK, Macau and Taiwan aside, I would go with Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong. Shandong will come next.
If HK, Macau and Taiwan are included, Taiwan would probably the best. Hong Kong's quality of life is notoriously bad no matter what the GDP per capita says.
Macau is 30 sq km with hardly 600k people, it is more like a small 4th tiered city than a province. I wouldn't put it along with the provinces with 50M+ people.
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