which areas do expats usually reside?

thundacatchergo · 07-10-2009, 12:41 PM

Originally Posted by carang:

so, just to be clear...

expats have been known to reside:

on the north on hk island (mid-levels, wanchai, happy valley)
on the south of hk island (stanley, repulse bay)
on the west of hk island (pok fu lam)
on the east of hk island (tai koo shing, shek o etc)
on the top of hk island (the peak)

in the east NT (sai kung, clearwater bay)
in the west NT (gold coast)
in the north NT (all the little villages)
in the central NT (shatin)

in the outlying islands (cheung chau, lamma, lantau)

in eastern kowloon (laguna city, kwun tong, kowloon bay)
in western kowloon (olympic, etc)
in central kowloon (tst, mongkok, jordan)

have i missed anywhere???

well done carang. you might want to differentiate tung chung and lantau.

cookie09 · 07-10-2009, 02:55 PM

in all fairness to the OP, the REAL expat ghettos are really mid-levels and disco bay. in fact these two places are so ridiculously 'expatty' that makes me laugh everytime i go there

PDLM · 07-10-2009, 03:03 PM

The proportion of expats in the mid-levels is below 20% - it's hardly a ghetto!

cookie09 · 07-10-2009, 04:19 PM

have dinner on staunton or elgin street on any day and tell me it's not a ghetto?? of course these are extremes but i still think mid-levels has a huge expat influenced environment

timklip · 07-10-2009, 04:25 PM

Originally Posted by cookie09:

have dinner on staunton or elgin street on any day and tell me it's not a ghetto?? of course these are extremes but i still think mid-levels has a huge expat influenced environment

i'd say that qualifies it more as a restaurant ghetto than as an expat ghetto...people gotta eat, no matter where they live