Thanks for the good landlord bits. *relief*
I take the point that everywhere around HK is convenient, it is just that for the first year at least, I'd prefer to be on the same island as work location, and where most of the (rather few) people I know are. As gilleshk sniffed out, yes, single.
I figured in the second year, I could then be all jaded and move out to some nice seaside apartment or house and stick my nose up at all the people in the MidLevels. (I do love the seaside, grew up by it.)
On another tangent (sorry, a lot of queries, I think I'm rather confused ) :
HKID card - I've to apply for this within a month of arrival, but it requires a residential address? Could I use an office/first month company provided service apartment address?
Bank account - same with the above - they all seem to require residential proof of address?
So from the sounds of it, the househunting has to be done first?… But without the bank account, how am I to pay my rental deposits, short of charging to Amex?