Goodbye Shanghai: After 16 years, COVID-19 curbs send American family packing

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American Heather Kaye and her family — including their cat, Mochi — are part of a wave of residents being driven out of Shanghai by strict COVID-19 regulations.

American Heather Kaye and her family — including their cat, Mochi — are part of a wave of residents departing Shanghai, leaving behind their homes and memories.a crushing, two-month lockdownHeather Kaye and her daughter, Matilda, line-up to be tested for COVID-19 at a testing site below their apartment.

"I haven't had the luxury to really grieve a lot of what I'm leaving behind because I need to get two kids and a cat out of here … so it's been really focused on [those] logistics," she told Reuters from her flat which had just been emptied by movers. According to the European Chamber, the number of foreigners in China has halved since the pandemic began.

With ageing parents in the United States, travel restrictions were also a big part of Heather and her husband's decision to leave, she said, describing how they had already made up their minds before the lockdown.Heather moved to Shanghai to work for a fashion label and became enthralled by the fast-charging energy of a China on the rise.Her husband left behind his career as a banker in the United States and quickly immersed himself in Chinese culture and learned to speak Mandarin.

 

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