Kids help.
We know plenty of people in our building, mostly thru the kid.
@Skyhook
One day I wish you go and live in France and we will see. And when you do it, please live like the majority, ie on less than 2K euros a month.
Monaco, Nice, of course of course. Monaco 50.000 peeps and now one on minimum wage. Nice, golden retirement area for rich french and the likes.
Pleas go to bethune for a month and we talk again or Saint Denis, cos you know this france also.
Dont get me wrong I like France and granted on average we probably know more our neighbor than some HK people but please stop selling it as the perfect ad. Like all places it's great and shit at the same time. Tourists (even extended tourists like you) tend to only see the good
@Fiona in HKG, what is a 'roast beef' glance? Is that a saying translated into English? Sounds delicious but probably is more of a negative look? =D
It is definitely your choice to not be accommodating to other people. I wasn't suggesting that anyone needs to go out of their way to make someone feel more welcome or to try to talk to their neighbours. I was simply asking whether someone had tried and if they got a similar reaction.
While in Paris, my friend told me that the locals would be more friend if I spoke some French to them. I was wondering if maybe that was the case with her neighbours. I've also found that some people from other cultures seem fascinated and genuinely happy when you say a few words in their language. However, I realize it might be annoying to some, which might have been the case here.
I'm ethnically Chinese(Singaporean)-Korean. My first language is English and, unfortunately, I have limited Chinese and Korean communication skills. I also don't like any emphasis on nationalities and don't identify with either backgrounds. I dislike it when people find it important to ask me where I'm from and spew out random words in a language I don't really speak, after I already told them I don't use those languages. About the same feeling I get when people think they are complimenting me by telling me I'm great at communicating in my first language. However, I know they are trying to be friendly. I wouldn't really like having a stranger say "ni hao" or "anyong" to me in the US.
I also wouldn't be surprised if anyone of any nationality, locals included, ended up just wanting to keep to themselves after living in Hong Kong for a while, especially if people poke fun of their nationality.
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Around the world this is normally the case but the French are famous for looking down on foreigners trying to (poorly) speak their language I've never had any issues with this myself in France though.
As for Roast Beef - BBC NEWS | UK | Why do the French call the British 'the roast beefs'?
That's for the article. Laughed while trying to think of food-based names someone might invent to call me.
Yes, there seems to be many negative stereotypes of the French. I have yet to meet someone who is actually like that, but I guess I haven't encountered that many French people.
No kids, so that rules out some potential of a social life.
Maids/ helpers walk the dogs here and my husband and I walk our own dog. Maids say hello, are nice but some of their dogs are not and my pup is still impressionable hyper stage even though he got neutered last week. Anyway, my neighbour and us share outside house tools etc. our landlords live in our village and we get along with them very well. It is just keeping the balance. Neither my husband or I care if we aren't best buds with our neighbours as people come and go here. Hard to keep up with the moving ins and moving outs. But so far all good. In fact, I like the dynamics. Locals, expats or varying nationalities. Their customs and ours.