Yup, I've occasionally had trouble getting a cross-harbour taxi as well. Not always, but sometimes. Whether that inconvenience is worth the premium of living island-side is up to the OP to decide.Original Post Deleted
Or alternatively as someone else suggested they could live a bit further along the island line as a compromise.
OP - your GF will have difficulty finding a job because her skill set doesn't really suit HK's main areas of business - law, finance, logistics, or real estate. She might be able to find something, but chemistry/health care isn't that big in HK (unless you're a prof services guy that services them). Obviously these industries do exist here and there are jobs but it would be difficult.
Speaking English and Mandarin are OK but further limit her options to international or mainland firms.
Regarding renting in central, one of my friend's apartments is around 400-500 sq ft, 1 br, and rents out for around 23k a month (before utilities). It's on hollywood road but I forgot the name of the building. Would recommend that you look around before you commit to a rental contract.
On the other hand, since your gf can't find a job, why don't you marry her and have kids and live your life happily ever after? unless you worried about the hefty divorce bill with your 80k per month salary!
80K per month is an obscene amount of salary and anyone who professes hardship on the basis of such a salary, even in a place as expensive as HK, should have his arse sacked because he's just an entitled prick.
I am not sure why people waste their and my time posting stupid comments.
80k is not a crazy salary: actually most of the people I know in HK, get double than that (all work in Finance or Sales Exec). For this reason, there is no point for me to ask them as they live “in their own world”...
I agree with you. There are a lot of high earners here. The survey mentioned in this thread (https://geoexpat.com/forum/26/thread340831.html) puts the average expat salary at approx 110K / month.