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  1. #1

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    Lamma Island

    Is it a good idea to live in Lamma Island?
    Any property agents recommend?
    And I am worry about is not easy to get some furniture to there, is it convenient


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    i've been there once and stayed overnight. Really nice village feel and totally unlike HK! I think there are a few foreigners living there.

    Plenty of agents on the island. Suggest get out there and have a look.

    Seems convenient with the ferry but I am sure you can get someone to help with furniture.


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    im guessing with all the news from Japan that you want to be as close as possible to the nuclear plant on lamma?


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    Yes, those stock plies of coal there must be for the back up generators for the nuclear reactor. Otherwise it's probably a coal plant.

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    There are many foreigners living there.

    It is a coal fired power station, with tall chimneys, so the air quality is not bad, and pretty good compared to many other parts of Hong Kong.

    There are furniture shops on Lamma, or places will deliver to the Central ferry piers, and then you have to get it to your place on Lamma - which can be a little expensive and a pain, but is possible.

    The nuclear plant close to Hong Kong is Daya Bay.

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    lot of foreigners living there.

    a friend of mine lives in there as well. and she really like there, because the air is better than HK island. and she said is pretty convenient to live in there. if you need help for deliver your furniture, you can let me know, my friend can help you go arrange.


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    speaking of Lamma, I went to the bookworm cafe the other day, terrible disappointed.
    Ordered some delightful sounding tea, turned out to be just teabags.. I hate it when cafes do that, if you are showing something as fancy tea, either tell us it's a tea bag or make it properly!
    Second, the cakes we ordered were just recently defrosted...
    won't be going back!


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    Bookworm was really good in the early days when the hippy Bobsy owned it. He sold it and started LIFE in Soho, and its not as good now.

    I considered living at Lamma at one point, but decided the apartments are not up to the quality I like. Also there is lots of construction going on, so all day long there are these little carts wizzing around driven by crazy young drivers, competing for space on the same path that you use to walk on.

    The people living on Lamma are pretty cool though.


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    There's no need to worry about transporting furniture. As we all know, the people of Lamma live in crude caves that they have hollowed out of the hillsides and make such 'furniture' that they have from the rocks and mud that are readily available on the island. Some of the more advanced cave-dwellers have learned how to make more sophisticated items by weaving together grasses and/or tree bark (or wikka as they call it). If you visit the island some of the natives sell these crude items to visitors from the developed world so buy one if you can as the sale of a wicker coffee table can even be enough to enable a Lamma family to buy the tools needed to build their own dug-out canoe and supplement their meagre diet of nuts and lentils with fish.


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    Ha Ha Ha - well, and lamma is quite a "green place" too if you know what I mean. No shortage of grass over there...

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