"I'd rather be a beggar in England than go back to Hong Kong to be emperor," is a quote from a Hong Kong man after immigrating to the UK.
It is often said that strangers always miss their hometown, but this Hong Kong native did the opposite.
After immigrating to the UK, the imagination is not so good, and now that it has been many years, what is their current situation? Will you continue to stay in the UK or will you go back to Hong Kong?
The couple Aman and Fiona have a very good career in Hong Kong, and his wife, Fiona, has a master's degree and is a local teacher.
Her husband, Aman, also has a stable job as a bus driver, and they have a very stable life and a pair of children.
With a monthly salary of tens of thousands of yuan, I live very happily, which belongs to the middle and high-level income to the family in an area like Hong Kong.
But they are not satisfied with the status quo and always want to be able to live abroad, and it just so happened that in 2020, the UK suddenly released the latest settlement application rules. At that time, a large number of Hong Kong people began to want to live in the UK.
The same was true for the couple, whose families objected, believing that with their economic level, they would be able to live in Hong Kong without worrying about food and clothing, and their children would be able to receive a better education.
Fiona, on the other hand, thinks that Britain is a developed country and must have a better development here. What's more, I graduated with a master's degree and has teaching qualifications, so I will definitely be able to find a job with a stable income when I come to Hong Kong.
Eventually, they decided to come to the UK and began to prepare for a series of related procedures. In fact, they have accumulated a lot of money in Hong Kong, but compared with the British, their strength is still limited, so they did not choose a big city like London, but came to a remote small town, first rented a large villa and began to look for work.
Since I didn't have the experience of living in the UK, I always encountered various problems when I first came to the UK.
They believe that all kinds of problems are acceptable, that everything is difficult at the beginning, and that they can definitely succeed in surviving in Britain with their strength.
Although the couple has a stable career and income in Hong Kong, it is difficult for them to move in the UK, and many companies and units in the UK require a letter of introduction, but they do not have such documents, so they cannot find the job they want.
His wife, Fiona, is a teacher herself, but she didn't even qualify as a tutor when she came to England. Needless to say, her husband Aman doesn't have too high a degree and can't even get a driver's license in the UK.
In this regard, the family persuaded them to return to Hong Kong and return to their posts again, but the husband and wife said directly in an interview with reporters: "I would rather be beggars here than go back to Hong Kong to be emperors."
After this sentence was said, it instantly caused an uproar, and even triggered a series of public opinions, and netizens wanted to know what their lives would be like in the future.
Since the work has not been going well, they can only spend the money they brought from Hong Kong.
At first, they would look for Filipino maids when they encountered various difficulties, but as time went by, the expenses became larger and larger, and their funds became less and less, so in order to be able to save money, they moved from a large villa to another small square with a lower price.
From stable jobs to unemployed vagrants, from big villas to small houses, the two of them were devastated, and even then they had no idea of returning to Hong Kong.
Time passed, I couldn't find the job I wanted, and the savings in my hand were about to be spent, and the hundreds of thousands of funds I had accumulated before were already very little.
Since they first came to Hong Kong, they applied for a temporary visa, and the official visa has not yet been successfully processed. If the temporary visa expires, all the savings are spent, and you can only be repatriated to Hong Kong in the end.
At this moment, the couple had some doubts, and they wondered whether it was the right decision to give up their privileged jobs in Hong Kong and come to the UK.
But now that she has come to this point, she has no choice, and eventually Fiona finds a factory that packs food, does assembly line work every day, and her husband also becomes a delivery worker in the UK.
I leave at 6 a.m. every morning and go home at 12 p.m., and I work very hard every day. Such a huge difference in life makes them particularly painful and depressed, so the husband and wife often quarrel because of this.
They think back to the excitement and joy they were when they first came to the UK, but now the atmosphere of family life is becoming more and more depressing. When the reporter interviewed about their future plans, the husband and wife did not give a clear answer.
It is possible that they are also very confused and do not know what to do next.
In real life, there are many people like them, who always think that my living conditions and economic conditions are very good, and I will definitely have better development when I come abroad.
As everyone knows, when you really come to a foreign country, you find that what you imagine is not so perfect, if you don't prepare in advance and don't have the corresponding qualifications, immigration abroad is a painful one-way street, and you may pay a heavy price.
Material Source:
"What do you say you'd rather beg in the UK than go back to Hong Kong?" 丨Observer.com
