Life in Hong Kong Run or get out of the way Life here is extremely fast paced and people are often rude because they are hurrying off to another direction, are on the phone and hopping off of one train to jump on another bus to take another ferry where they will walk 20 minutes to reach their homes. I’m not kidding.
My own husband takes two trains and a bus to reach home every day. One thing I have noticed here as an expat is that the language barrier is huge. Mainlanders (the common term used for those living in China and not in Hong Kong) often swarm here on weekends for tourism and shopping, or they work here during weekdays and go back on weekends to Shenzhen (a city in China which touches borders with Hong Kong). Unlike Dubai, Karachi, or any other metropolis, Hong Kong’s population density is increasing and the space continues to remain the same. Understandably Hong Kong and Macau rank within the top five cities in population densities, mainly because they are the playgrounds of the Chinese.
My own husband takes two trains and a bus to reach home every day. One thing I have noticed here as an expat is that the language barrier is huge. Mainlanders (the common term used for those living in China and not in Hong Kong) often swarm here on weekends for tourism and shopping, or they work here during weekdays and go back on weekends to Shenzhen (a city in China which touches borders with Hong Kong). Unlike Dubai, Karachi, or any other metropolis, Hong Kong’s population density is increasing and the space continues to remain the same. Understandably Hong Kong and Macau rank within the top five cities in population densities, mainly because they are the playgrounds of the Chinese.
