Living Beijing vs. Bangkok

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http://www.travelandleisure.com/worl...cfm?cat=cities
http://www.travelandleisure.com/worl...cat=citiesasia
http://www.travelersdigest.com/best_cities_live.htm
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/e.../world.cities/

The top cities in the world lists vary a lot but no Chinese cities (beside Hong Kong) seem to be near the top on any of them. Bangkok however does pretty well. Bangkok and Beijing seem like they'd be very similar to live in was wondering what you guys think they are like compared to each other. They are both huge cities, they have a lot of very poor and very rich, they have asian food and asian people. Bangkok has the huge gogo bar girl industry and girls like foreigners, I don't know but it seems like the circumstances are the same so Beijing would be the same also in that repect.