^ I was a little over the top in that I said tha HK is the best place on earth. But, after hearing the common complaints about Vancouver (high taxes, costs of living, no jobs, no fun, etc.), Hong Kong seemed to be the perfect antidote.

Even I complain about the city at times, but I still put up with the crap and make sacrifices to live here because I know that we have it pretty good.
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and if you spoke mandarin in HK, wouldnt you be consider an outsider? i mean i know you can get by in HK with mando, since everyone speaks it, but their native language is still cantonese...

The only people who speak mandarin in everyday HK are in the tourism industry, or sales catering to tourists, or are workers from mainland.

I love it here, but I would never raise a kid here.

I had no trouble getting around in HK only speaking english

do they treat u better because ur a white guy in hk?

HK people work very hard and longer hours, six days a week. You're lucky if you get sunday off. Don't know how many North Americans can handle not having weekends or even willing to work hard for that matter. As for housing, the million dollar house you can buy here, you only get flat there in a middle class area.

Not too sure about the tax rate, but I think it is better than ours. Their government also has good money management skills and I think they have had surpluses

Wouldn't recommend that unless you want to be stuck in one area the whole time.
who?

hong kong people, chinese people, asians, etc

"all my real live chinese people, fro dere hand up!"