Do you live in DB by any chance? If so you may be proving my hypothesis true in anecdotal form. Your love of your home in Australia is admirable, but need not detract from your appreciation or or affection for Hong Kong. It is a very naturally beautiful and artificially beautiful place. There is no reason you can't appreciate those things as well. Maybe you don't like it as much as Melbourne or Sydney but the fact that both are set on beautiful harbors and are major cities sans there is a naturl base of similarity from which to build. At discovery bay the low rise architecture and the semi resort feel all recalled Sydney and San Diego for me.