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I don't know if it's because Hong Kong compatriots live under great pressure, or because they don't have the habit of talking to strangers.
In the past few days in Hong Kong, my friends and I have been asking for directions or borrowing a lighter, except for the owners of small shops (provided that you have to consume) and public officials, passers-by basically do not respond, either do not raise their heads, or hurriedly walk by with gestures that they don't know and don't want to speak, and even meet a buddy who has just lit a cigarette and borrowed fire from him, completely ignoring the feeling and walking away.
I would like to believe that this is an unintentional move by some Hong Kong compatriots, and if he thinks about it, he will not take it to heart. Our Chinese people should have the courage to tolerate Haichuan, just like we have suffered a lot from foreigners in those years, but we will always rush forward without hesitation.
Most of the people who responded to us were tourists from the mainland, and smokers would even chat happily with each other, and I met Hainan people and Northeast Chinese who chatted enthusiastically a few words, and I also used a few clumsy words of English to help a foreign girl show the way.
Only in the vegetable market met an old man who came to Hong Kong from Shantou more than 40 years ago, and we chatted for a while, the old man was the third old man of the year, more than 70 years old, and he looked like he was only in his early 60s, and told us that everyone is a man, and it is no exaggeration to say that he can still be a father. Hey, the old man has a full sense of humor, he also bluntly said that the life pressure of Hong Kong people is too great, pointed out to us those small shops, he said don't look at these rags, the rent is more than 100,000 yuan a month, the labor cost is high, the welfare of the elderly is high, and the government is also poor, and collects taxes from all kinds of corners.
Hong Kong is crowded and narrow, and high housing prices are still a shackle to people's lives.
Many elderly people in Hong Kong are still working, similar to the silver-haired people in Japan, drivers in their sixties, elderly people handing out leaflets, and many security guards are white-bearded. Economies that have entered advanced societies have to face the problem of ageing.
Hong Kong's life expectancy is the world's first, food safety specifications are the strictest in the world, here, Hong Kong-style milk tea is only 52 kilojoules per 100 milliliters of calories, many in the mainland are more than 200 kilojoules, almost all diets are very light. As a financial center and a well-known settlement center in Asia, it has always been golden, so this is also Hong Kong's biggest advantage, but it is too depressed by high housing prices.
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People look at money for everything, in most restaurants in the mainland, rice can be added for free, here 12 Hong Kong dollars a bowl, 711 convenience store mineral water is 10 yuan, cola, milk tea is also 10 yuan, so these days simply drink mixed drinks, calories are not high.
On the streets of Hong Kong, there are either taxis, buses, or high-end private cars, all Mercedes-Benz, BMW, Rolls-Royce, Porsche, I have never seen Mazda, although I have reconciled with Leung Ka-fai Century, and I no longer drive Mazda, so far, no one opposes or approves.
These cars are extremely new, almost no old cars have been seen, and there are no other low-end domestic cars, and the people who can afford to drive here are all rich people. And the class is seriously solidified, and it is as easy for the rich to change cars as it is to change toys.
The new energy vehicles are all special model Y/S, and I have almost never seen the model 3, and occasionally I have seen one or two BYD cars, frigates, and dolphins. When the mainland compatriots were hotly discussing whether to buy Qin, which was 79,800 yuan, or to buy Xiaomi Su7 and Tesla, Hong Kong people with a monthly income of 40,000 or 50,000 yuan calculated the cost of using a car.
In Hong Kong, in addition to paying the price of the naked car, the purchase of a car is subject to the First Registration Tax (FRT), which ranges from 46% to 132%, depending on the value of the car.
For example, to buy a car worth 300,000 Hong Kong dollars (about 240,000 yuan), it will actually cost 489,000 Hong Kong dollars (about 396,000 yuan) after paying FRT. In the mainland, the purchase of a car is only subject to a purchase tax (PCT) of 10%, and new energy vehicles are tax-free or reduced. The price of oil in Hong Kong is also super expensive, so in Hong Kong, ordinary people can't afford to drive a car at all, even if the median income in Hong Kong is more than 20,000 Hong Kong dollars (about 178 yuan), the general income of Hong Kong drifters is more than 40,000 Hong Kong dollars, otherwise there is no need to come to Hong Kong to work, so many people are willing to live in a very small house, and they can save a considerable amount of savings in a few years. As long as you want to live a little more decently, it will be difficult to save money. As long as it is not too human, it is easier to save money.
Undoubtedly, Hong Kong is still the most developed and international metropolis in the country, and the whole city is full of large and small banks, and all the residences are like the supporting facilities of these banks, which is worthy of being one of the financial centers in Asia.
Hong Kong's gross domestic product (GDP) in 2023 will be US$383.5 billion, ranking sixth in the country. Behind Hong Kong is Suzhou, the strongest prefecture-level city on the surface, with a gap of 200 billion yuan from Hong Kong.
Hong Kong's per capita GDP in 2023 will reach 50,700 US dollars, about 357,000 yuan, which can be said to be the highest in the country, even in the world, it is also a developed economy, and Hong Kong people at least crush all the big cities in the mainland in terms of per capita GDP, so it is normal to have a sense of superiority. The per capita income is also extremely high, and the two or three thousand hotel waiters in the mainland are about 14,500 Hong Kong dollars here, which is converted into 10,000 yuan, but compared with the world's first house price, this income will be diluted instantly.
The most expensive point is more than 200,000 square meters, and the lowest is about 120,000, which does not include some luxury houses, and the house-price-to-income ratio is 37.57 years. New York is 12 years (downtown downtown).
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In Hong Kong, it's almost always sunny days, but I don't feel like I've seen much of the sun, and the super-dense buildings give people a strong sense of oppression. I really admire the people who work and live here. The day we came happened to be the second day of the Easter holiday, according to the flight attendant, "the day before the floor of the whole system", there are relevant data show that the Easter holiday, to the mainland of Hong Kong people there are 709,000, that is to say, every 10 Hong Kong people have a vacation to the mainland, welcome Hong Kong people to the vast mainland, you will find that the vast world has a lot to do, the most important thing is that the consumption is low enough, no pressure.
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Foreigners are more likely to come to work
Unlike most cities in the mainland, many foreigners here work here, and even many of them are engaged in low-level jobs.
There are also flea markets where the goods are placed and the shelves are packed up in the morning and evening, and there are foreigners, including Southeast Asians, Africans, and white people with European and American faces, but I guess it is not white people in Europe and the United States.
There are also homeless people in the subway, foreigners setting up stalls. From this point of view, Hong Kong is more international, so far I have never heard of Hong Kong to foreign students with female escorts, I see that Hong Kong at least does not give special treatment to foreigners, just on this basis, I give Hong Kong a thumbs up. It doesn't matter where you come from, we should treat everyone equally.
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Hong Kong's imprint of Hong Kong films
It is said that Hong Kong's night view is the best in the world, and I went to Victoria Harbour to see it with my own eyes, and it was indeed beautiful and shocking.
Dense buildings, light inside, and turbulent waves make up the most beautiful night scene in Hong Kong.
During the day, walking on the street, because the mottled and traditional Chinese signs of the buildings tell every Chinese that there is what China used to look like, almost like living fossils, this is my favorite place. Traditional Chinese signboards are the unique beauty of Chinese style, as well as a variety of pharmacies, here pharmacies are not the kind of medicine that treats diseases, but a lot of gadgets similar to health care products, as well as a variety of Hong Kong-style snacks, although I really can't get used to eating, but it looks really exquisite, very pleasing to the eye, mainly light, which may also be one of the reasons for the longevity of Hong Kong people.
After more and more Chinese people have seen the world, Hong Kong's temptation to the world is not as great as before, and after chatting with several tourists from the mainland, everyone has said something similar: Hong Kong is nothing more than that.
However, this is not a lack of attention to Hong Kong, it is precisely that everyone was full of endless imagination about this city, and the decline of Hong Kong-made films has also removed the filter.
The night before yesterday, I turned on the Hong Kong TV station, and I could hardly find a few TVB films, so I watched the Cantonese version of "Dajiang Dahe 3" for a while and fell asleep.
There is a good line in "Infernal Affairs": Let him go in the past, and it will start tomorrow.