Originally Posted by HK_Katherine:
Just looking at places on the MTR really limits your options. HK's buses are fantastic and almost all the freeway buses from many places stop at the Western Harbour crossing toll plaza, which is right outside ICC. Looking at freeway bus options will really open up your options (including from the island, although that's a bit of a longer walk into the building as you have to go over the footbridge).
I would wait until you get out of quarantine and go and visit these places in person. For example, once the links with the Mainland reopen, Tung Chung is absolutely inundated with mainland visitors who come on the bus over the bridge. I would hate to live there. So you may want to think more widely.
I live in Gold Coast, which may be a bit far for you, but has a resident bus to Olympic (one stop from Kowloon) in the morning (and a bus which stops at the toll plaza the rest of the day) and is a great, multicultural place with beaches and hiking and a lot fewer people in total than many other places. Just get out of quarantine, get on an MTR or bus and walk around these neighbourhoods. But do beware about where the mainlanders will come when they are alllowed back in soon.