If you think getting on a crowded luas or train in the morning is tough, you probably don't want to go emigrating Beijing.

If the queues weren't awful enough, here's what happens when the trains actually arrive. For the sake of a reality check, Beijing's subway system is one of the most reliable and efficient in the world, in use by 2.46 billion people a year with a trip on it only costing around 25c and this is it at its busiest in a city of more than 20 million. That DART home doesn't seem so bad all of a sudden does it.