No place is perfect - but what country outside of China can bring people hope? For example:

It has nothing to do with hope. Its just about choices.

Hope, heh, what a joke.

It has nothing to do with hope. Its just about choices.

Hope, heh, what a joke.

It's no surprise that they want to leave. Think about it. 2 choices:

1. Live in a country where the air is polluted so badly I can't breathe, the water is not advisable to drink, the food is so polluted I have to import good food, the lifestyle options are limited and at any time in the future my government could take my wealth. Where my children will be educated but also indoctrinated. On the plus side, I know/understand/love the culture and language, have friends and high social standing.

2. Live in a country where you can drink the water, eat the food (because of appropriate government controls), where the air is breathable, where the environment is like a park, lifestyle options are virtually unlimited. Here my kids will be freer thinkers, like the laowais I met last year. In the new country property and individual rights underpin the entire legal system, making it highly unlikely the government could ever take my "hard earned" wealth. On the minus side I will be in a new and strange environment, will miss my culture and friends, however there are so many Chinese like me there now, I can make new friends!

And all it takes currently is selling one of my 3 Shanghai apartments that I have, thanks to the ridiculous property bubble.

It's not hard to see why they would leave, I just dislike that they have exported their property bubble to other countries. Other than this I don't consider it a bad thing either, it should be a wake up call to the Chinese government.

Few people living in China imagine they have to import food if they want it to be good. Where is the environment like a park, lifestyle options are virtually unlimited, kids are free thinkers and education does not involve indoctrination; and how much wealth anywhere is really 'hard earned'?
Somewhat exaggerated comparison with some nonspecific foreign environment, I think.

I can list five cities I've lived in that match that nonspecific foreign environment. Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, and Austin. I'm sure many can list more.

the average rent in san francisco is what? 3000 USD?

and the average chinese fleeing with money can afford it

Think Alien is suffering from to many years of bad food, poor environment, educational indoctrination and being poor, has warped his objectivity.

Vancouver although a nice city is very expensive and there is high tax so maybe not Vancouver rent is getting pretty high too but if you can afford to run away from china you could probably afford a house/morgage

as for education it is not free from indoctrination