Moving to Hong Kong

[MovingIn07]

Hi everyone, thanks for the very interesting reading this morning. Just goes to shoe that not everyone shares the same opinion. Well like I said at the start, wea re in the headlands hotel for 6 weeks in CX city to start with, so we have 6 weeks to make up our mins as to where we will be moving to, as for what a lot of younar saying GC sounds good but tbh it sounds like it's to far out of the way for me. It's hard enough as it is pushing a stroller, but imagine if I had to do a shop as well? It could be difficult carrying shopping, pushing stroller and having to go a long way or even get a cab.

What sort of shopping are you talking about? There is a good supermarket in GC that is a short walk from the residences (by short, I mean about 3 minutes / 200m) along a path that does not go anywhere near the road or pavements or steps (or anything nasty for a stroller). Similar in Park Island, DB etc. In PP (or anywhere else in the city) you will be going up and down over overpasses and under underpasses or up and down escalators just to in and out let alone get around.

If you mean clothes and shoes and that stuff - yes, here you would be in a bus or taxi (10 mins to Tuen Mun) while in PP you would be wandering around the city malls.

[MovingIn07]

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Now whose telling porkies? How do you plan to cross Queensway or Cotten Tree Drive etc without going up over the over-passes?

[HowardCoombs]

I love google maps, it tells no lies : for those wanting to follow Gritty's footsteps, here is how you get to YWCA, with a stroller:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.27749...247.55,,0,-8.8
Yes, its the building at the top, the one with the cartier ad on it. Note the angle of the road compared to the buildings.

Along the way, you will come across the zoological gardens:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.27738...4.41,,0,-12.96
Now look down that hill you just came up:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.36960...91.32,,0,11.29

To get to Arts center, this is what you have to cross:
https://maps.google.com/?ll=22.27956...136.61,,0,1.56
Yup, that lovely bridge over the 7 (or is it 8) lane highway; yes its paved and has lots of stairs.

There is also the traffic laden walk to Central&Wanchai, but I'll leave that as an exercise for someone else.

[MovingIn07]

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And the MTR is SUCH fun with a stroller. Enjoy.

To the OP - if you are from the UK, then imagine Oxford St in London during the sales. Then make the pavements narrower and the people less watchful of where they are going. Then go walking around with your stroller is like that. It's like that ALL the time, pretty much anywhere in Central, Admiralty, Wan Chai and many other places in HK Island. Also anywhere else there are many shops. However, in places like GC, Park Island, Discovery Bay, there are generally less people, more space and more other mothers with strollers. That's really all we are saying, in a nutshell. Plus those places are easier for your husband to get to work. Nowhere in HK is actually far from shops, supermarkets, cinemas or other conveniences. It's more about the general atmosphere of your basic surroundings.

[Mat]

It is interesring to read all this and OP in all fairness....both DeletedUser and Moving are telling half truths...


it's not 3 mn from the GC residence to the supermarket and it's not fun nor cinvenient to walk in Central with a toddler.



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[Mat]

No it's not fine to walk in Central with a toddler.

Whatever route you take. It's hot, there is traffic, there are people, it's polluted.

Yes I do it regularly with 3 kids (aged 1.5/2.5 and 6) and it's not easy.

Same the GC supermaket is NOT 3mn from the residence.


Stop agruing guys, you look stupid.

[cjjenks]

why are you angry 'the brit'? this thread is about helping someone make an informed choice, and not about justifying your decision to live on the island.

[MovingIn07]

why are you angry 'the brit'? this thread is about helping someone make an informed choice, and not about justifying your decision to live on the island.

When DeletedUser was coming to HK, he asked where to live and I suggested GC as one option. He came here for a month, missed the residents bus a couple of times (apparently it left "early" - something I have never experienced in five years!), got pissed off with the place and has since moved to (I think) near Kowloon station. For some reason his single month in GC has been seared into his memory as a living hell (probably because the first month anywhere is hard and he happened to be here) and has never forgiven me for suggesting it.

In a nutshell.

On the other hand, others who have come to GC following various suggestions have sent me personal emails thanking me for the suggestion and love living here. At the end of the day, the point is that folks HAVE to come and LOOK FOR THEMSELVES before deciding where to live. We are all different and like different things but blaming others for your own lack of due diligence is pretty pathetic.

[Mat]

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lol, the irony

[HowardCoombs]

why are you angry 'the brit'?

Because he is a bitter man.

He hates GC (for whatever reason) and will do his utmost to pour scorn on the place even if its at the cost of looking foolish evidenced by what he is doing now...Trying to convince someone that Admiralty makes a fine choice for raising a family. Its comical but he'll continue and we'll get amusement out of it