Hey all,
I'm an American who just got accepted to a master's program at CUHK. Currently living in Shenzhen, but I hope to move to Hong Kong sometime in August. I wanted to know how best to approach finding housing around Shatin (maybe Tai Wai) area. I hope to be rowing for the crew team in the mornings, so biking distance to the southeast corner of campus/boat house would be awesome. I'm looking for something around 10000HKD (15k max) and hope to share with another student. I've already found squarefoot.com and gohome.com.hk, as well as some other websites. Here on the mainland, it's easy to just go into the local housing agencies (assuming you speak Mandarin) to find housing in the area you want. Do they have these offices everywhere in HK, or is it better to go online? I speak decent Mandarin, but almost zero Cantonese (learning now). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. And if there's anyone else coming to CUHK this fall, I'm super excited to meet new people in such an awesome city.