Tyler Cowen: belief

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…I was actually [laughs] thinking about that a lot on the airplane. I couldn’t come up with an answer. I think Beijing ultimately, because there was just more there. Shanghai, I had a better experience in. I think the reason I liked Shanghai more initially was just because of my location. I had a good location. I was right next to People’s Park, and I had a good four or five days. Beijing grew on me with time though. I just thought there was more there. I think I would much prefer Beijing. It feels more intellectual, and there’s a greater variety of Chinese foods there. I didn’t do as much time as I usually do in a city when I was in both Shanghai and Beijing. I usually try to spend at least 10 days in a place. In both cases, because of visa constraints, I was there for six or less days. The food thing to me that was interesting was, what I had hoped to find in China I didn’t find, which was, I thought I was going to have a Taipei-like experience where there was just going to be a variety of different foods all over the place on the streets. I was eating in mall food courts. There was a lot of diversity there, but it felt very hard to choose because it was all crammed together in these small food courts.…

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