The only place that is easier for visa in China now is Shanghai, but lets face it, who really wants to live and work there?

Expensive (by mainland chinese standards), overbearing locals who think they are better than "wai di ren",very brainless and materialistic local women who live for and love shopping, terrible eastern china cuisine (sorry, just don't like it, Inner Mongolia/Sichuan/Xinjiang food are my favourites)and a slew of foreign weasels who think Shanghai is the place to "make it"....not for me, and also I suspect, not a guy like you either.