One of our pals recently asked me to help her get her BNO passport, 'just in case', and she got it a few months ago... she is 40ish and her daughter has just started secondary school.
She is an office clerk... I guess she earns under 15k HKD per month but she has gov. housing...
Her English is not great but she has a good foundation and would learn quickly here... her daughter would be relatively fluent after a few months of school...
I feel she might be a little worse off here financially... if she lived in the north, she could rent an okay 2 bedroom house for 3000HKD, but I guess she's paying 1000HKD now, although that's for a tiny studio...
Groceries would be cheaper, public transport more expensive...
She's asking me for advice... part of me says 'go for it'... but, you know, nobody should think these decisions aren't complicated or that the people affected are normally mobile (economically/language/experience)...
I feel like Joey could end up quite lonely and I have visions of her daughter drinking cider in the park... I wouldn't want my kids going to state schools in the UK...and I wouldn't want to be on minimum wage her either... rock and hard place springs to mind...