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[00:00.37] Todd: So, I'm here with Dan, and Dan lives in Bali, Indonesia where he runs his business operations.

[00:05.87] And we’re going to talk about good cities to do business.

[00:09.87] So Dan what are your favorite cities or cities that do you think would be a good place to start up an international business?

[00:17.12] Dan: Well, it really depends what kind of business you're doing, I suppose.

[00:21.62] If you are an English speaker and you like to hire other English speakers, the Philippines is a famous place for going to hire English speakers.

[00:29.38] A good city to do that would be like Cebu City in the south of the Philippines, or Davao in the south of the Philippines.

[00:35.38] You can also look at Manila but it’s not such a nice city, and the workers are a little bit more expensive there.

[00:40.62] If you’re looking for lifestyle like a great lifestyle, maybe you’re not hiring so much or doing financial things but it’s just on your laptop, say, Bangkok is a great place.

[00:49.87] Some of the best food in the entire world, you’ve got great night life, and you can travel anywhere from Bangkok.

[00:55.62] Bali obviously is a great place, if you’re not such a city person and you like a more relax environment but it’s still very developed.

[01:03.12] I mean, you can eat a hundred different nationality of food, walk down the street and you can get food from all around the world, whereas if you want something a little bit more of an adventure and secluded, sort of off the beaten track, you could select Nha Trang in South Central Vietnam.

[01:20.87] Todd: Now, you have connections in China, could you recommend any places in China?

[01:28.37] Dan: Well, unfortunately for me in China is that a lot of my travel there has been super business focused.

[01:34.87] And I'm always going to the place where there’s the factory or the bank or the connection.

[01:40.12] And so I haven’t really gotten a great chance to explore places that you might go for lifestyle.

[01:45.87] But off the top of my head, there’s two places that stick out. One is Shanghai.

[01:52.38] And really to me—you know, I’ve been to a lot of big cities, but Shanghai is a whole another level of big.

[02:00.63] It’s like the movie Blade Runner mixed with the movie The Matrix.

[02:04.13] I mean, it is so futuristic and I just—it really blew me away to be in the city. And it also has hints of Europe.

[02:12.63] I mean, Shanghai is famous for being famous in the 1920s and '30s with ex-patriots coming there, and it’s very international.

[02:19.38] And it really does have sort of a charm that a lot of places in China lack because cities in China are so new; a 10 million person city just sort of pops up overnight.

[02:30.13] Another place that sticks out for me is Shaman, and that’s close to Taipei and it’s one of the nicer big cities in China.

[02:38.87] There’s a lot of more nature-oriented green park stuff like that. So those would be the two places, but especially Shanghai, I feel like I could live there for a few years.