I highly recommend to come out and do a preview trip. It was very helpful to my family to see the schools and housing options, in person, as opposed to on the web. What you see on the web and what you see in person can be very different.
Even after a few days here we quickly realized that for ourselves, Puxi (French Concession) was the area of the city that appealed to us most and is where we chose to live. Prior to the preview trip, based on office location, we were thinking we would live in Pudong. The preview trip ensured we made the right decisions.
