The tram, cheap and excellent family run Chinese restaurants and some of the best Chinese tea money can buy.
The tram, cheap and excellent family run Chinese restaurants and some of the best Chinese tea money can buy.
Tram & ferry are my favorite too
Beaches & junk trips in summer
Daily living can be cheap & still charming - how about local milk tea + freshed baked custard tart for arvo tea! Prices are getting higher tho
This might not be a little thing, but definitely underappreciated: the affordability. The fact that while I make less than I did as a grad student in New York, Helsinki, or Munich, and have quadrupled the size of my family, my quality of life has improved enormously.
The fact I live on a mountain surrounded by trees with an industrial area less than 5 minutes walk. The random fresh air and green space in the mix with pollution.
Enjoy that I can be driven to insanity with the locals then a random stranger will make me laugh and all is forgiven.
Given its size and land prices... the ease with which we can play sport or keep fit:
Well equipped gyms open til midnight
Floodlit government football pitches (some free to book)
Tennis courts etc bookable online
Athletics tracks free to use
Some good cycling tracks
Loads of hikes or trail runs
Etc. Etc. Etc.
also, sports competitors are usually civilized and polite.
All this lovely money.
Octopus card is a big one for me.
Also the locals, even though I don't speak canto I can use mandarin and the locals appreciate it.
Leave time (sick, holiday, vacation etc). As an American, I certainly appreciate all the leave time I get here.
I almost feel guilty about all the time I get...
I'm dreading going back to states with the prospect of 1 or 2 weeks vacation a year.
Our village in south Lantau is the same. My husband offered one of our neighbours some money for taking time of his day off to put up our mail box which he refused, full stop. Even a six pack of beer! There seems to be a lot of arty and practical people in our village who can offer help whenever just for the sake of neighborhood friendship. Apart from when I lived in Berlin, I have never experienced this kind of community living in any other country.
Aside, I love that fact that coming home from work daily, it feels as though I'm going on holiday. Not that I mind the rat race in central. Hong Kong is ever regentrifying and rediscovering the new is as exciting as it gets.