Maria Trombly's Nostalgic for My Shanghai post captures an expat subculture:

Bill says that the longer people stay in China, the less they work. Finally, they're just coasting along, moving around from one wifi-equipped cafe to another, blogging and twittering, pretending that they're doing something, until finally they're living on no money at all.

You can do that in Shanghai.

I know at least a couple people like this. Read the whole thing for the full picture.