cavanami Posted May 10, 2007 Report Share Posted May 10, 2007 Great place! Use to go there a bunch ten years ago!!! Lots of 1/2 Chinese / 1/2 English, long legged, large breasted ladies...hmmmm...there was a certain one that worked...oh well.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sui_lo Posted May 11, 2007 Report Share Posted May 11, 2007 Work culture - depends on type of job. Generally all long hours as someone else stated but may not always be working that hard. As an expat, opportunites to get more responsibilities and faster promotions often than at home if in multi-nationals. If in local companies may be a bit more frustrating. Salaries - would expect to match what can get at home but with less tax (unless American as they chase you around the world...). Life-style - can get everything you want from home and usually reasonably priced compared to Western countries but ridiculously expensive compared to rest of Asia... Main downside - accomodation. Most people are in shoe boxes for high rental costs. Girls - choose your pick. Amongst friends we have western wives, thai wives, chinese (local and mainland) wives, filipino wives and then girlfriends mixed between the lot... geoexpat and asiaexpat both good sites for more questions/info as well - personally use the geoexpat one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buddha Posted May 13, 2007 Report Share Posted May 13, 2007 "There is no obvious religion to speak of." How could this be a 'negative'? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojis Posted May 16, 2007 Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 "Main downside - accomodation. Most people are in shoe boxes for high rental costs." What price could you expect to pay in for a 150sqm apartment, central but not necessarily top building ? Mid Levels for instance, Or some residential area closer to the chinese border ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sui_lo Posted May 16, 2007 Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 Gonna be crap but everything works in feet rather than metres here and not sure on conversion. Give an idea though, I pay $6000 for 700 square foot village house (just 1 floor) in a rural area. Would expect similar priced near border. Central - similar apartemnt would probably be significantly more but haven't looked in years... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojis Posted May 16, 2007 Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 Thanks Sui_lo Is that US$ ? Woulb be more than I expected than. HKG$ would be way less, so I'm confused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kojis Posted May 16, 2007 Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 Conversion.. it seems I got this quite wrong and 700 might only work to 65sqm. Guess it's HKG$ then, we would have a budget worth several times that amount, might work on it over the next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wanderer Posted May 16, 2007 Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 We have people assigned in HK. The housing allowance is about 7-10K USD a month. Sounds like a really exspensive place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted May 16, 2007 Report Share Posted May 16, 2007 What price could you expect to pay in for a 150sqm apartment, central but not necessarily top building ? Mid Levels for instance... In 2001-02 I (err, my employer) was paying US$8,600 for something like that in Mid-levels. I love Hong Kong. It's my second choice for a "money no object" place to live, behind Tokyo. Both cities shit all over BKK in any category save total $$ spent. Cheers, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sui_lo Posted May 17, 2007 Report Share Posted May 17, 2007 Yeah - that's HK dollars. As said though - I live in fairly rural HK. Prices on HK Island a lot higher - the real expat contracts will have allowances in the HK$40-100,000 and will have comparable places to what they would expect at home (I think...) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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