Moving to Shanghai in August-Salary feedback

Hi, to give you some hinters on your questions:
1. Landlords usually ask for at least 2 months deposit and 1 month rent in advance or 2 mo. deposit and 2mo. rent (paying rent every 2 months), best deal you will get for a well located apartment will be 2 to 3 months of rent (either 1:1 deposit:rent or 2:1).
2. If you want to have social life you should look to stay around the Puxi area ( FC, Jing'an, etc) Pudong is really too far away from most of the usual spots that you will use on the everyday.
3. Salary should be enough for you to live comfortably of course you can negociate just to get a better deal perhaps but in general you will have a great time and being able to save a good 2-4k USD a month depending on your lifestyle with that amount of money
4. Car is really not a necessity here, i get you coming from the US that is hard to believe but you really wont need it particularly if you dont have a family, also getting one is quite expensive because of the permits being quite pricey in Shanghai.

Feel free to add me in WeChat: rlugo1 or here if you have questions, I hope this can help