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    Where would you have gone to if it weren't HK?

    Folks here complain about HK a lot, both for justifiable and not-so-justifiable reasons. But let me ask you, if you did not moved to HK, where would you have gone instead? And did you ever regret not doing that?


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    I had started making early preparations to move to Israel before I got an offer of a job here, out of the blue - from some cousins-of-cousins who had heard I wanted to leave the UK. Although I had visited HK once, briefly, a few years earlier on the way to Australia, it would never have crossed my mind to move here, look for work, etc...

    Do I regret coming to HK instead? No. It would probably have been better for my career - although not necessarily for my bank balance - to have been in Israel, and there would probably have been more chance of me being married with a sprog or two. I'm generally of the opinion that when you come to one of those forks in your life, when you take a decision - or a decision/change is forced upon you by circumstances - you should run with it. Unless it turns out to be a genuine disaster, you've almost certainly gained in some ways and lost out in others, and there' not much point trying to go back and compare.

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    L'Alsace, no.


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    I wonder if those folks who regret coming here would admit it...


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    Quote Originally Posted by Cho-man:
    I wonder if those folks who regret coming here would admit it...
    They've already left HK.
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    Down the pub and home to the now ex-wife. NO regrets

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    They've already left HK.
    Are we sure about that?

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    Quote Originally Posted by shri:
    They've already left HK.
    Barry regrets coming here now and he won't be leaving for a while
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    South America.
    I was working on getting there when I got the opportunity to come here, took it and that's it. Still plan at some point to head down there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mat:
    South America.
    I was working on getting there when I got the opportunity to come here, took it and that's it. Still plan at some point to head down there.
    Interesting. Brazil? Argentina? Chile? Peru? Ecuador?

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