Telegraph blogs: The Chinese are desperate to live abroad, just not in England if possible

Her opinion of the UK? Taxes are too high and the standard of living is just too low. “I know a couple living in the UK. The husband teaches at a university and the wife works in a school library. You would think they have a middle-class life, but their financial position was very awkward,” she said. “They live on the outskirts of London because they cannot afford to buy in the city. I guess they make around £5,000 a month between them, but they have to pay huge taxes. They only get £3,000 a month in total. Any middle class family in Shanghai earns more than that!" / "What I didn’t like was the rent – £450 a month for a shabby room – and pricey food. I never even considered staying in the UK after graduation, even though my boyfriend, a Singaporean, was still there.”