What is life like for locals in Hong Kong?

When it comes to Hong Kong, there are three most obvious feelings: 1. Many houses in Hong Kong do not have balconies; 2. Many Hong Kong people grow old in their youth; 3. Life in Hong Kong is very stressful.

The differences between Hong Kong and mainland China are clearly reflected in the wet markets. In the Hong Kong market, the prices on the things people buy are very fair. The measurement units here are different from those in the mainland. Vegetables are very expensive, but fruits are very cheap. So there are still big differences between different things in the mainland and Hong Kong. of. When I go to the vegetable market to buy vegetables, I will say hello and chat with the stall owners and neighbors. This aspect seems very lifelike. Hong Kong culture has a lot of foreign penetration, so most of their language exchanges will include a few words of English when speaking Cantonese. This is probably one of the characteristics of their language.

Many people will say that wages in Hong Kong are very high. I remember that in the 1990s, it was a very cool thing to have a relative in Hong Kong. A 1,000 Hong Kong dollar note was super valuable. At that time, some families in the village built buildings one after another with money sent by relatives in Hong Kong. At that time, Hong Kong was an era suitable for entry and work, and many locals came from the mainland.

Later on, prices in Hong Kong became higher and higher, and house prices were even more ridiculously high. In Shenzhen, it was tens of thousands per square meter, and in Hong Kong, it was tens of thousands per square foot (1 square meter equals 3.3 feet), so there were many houses. There are no balconies. It is precisely because of this huge pressure over a long period of time that many Hong Kong people have grown old in their youth, but those who have grown gray in their youth look younger when they get older.

There are many elites in Hong Kong, and many of them have moved overseas. In fact, many Hong Kong people who remain are quite pitiful, especially the younger generation, who have high work pressure and high housing prices. It was like a big mountain pressing on them. For them, they cannot immigrate overseas like the elites, and can only stay in Hong Kong and live in a small house with their parents. On the other hand, we are actually very lucky. We have the so-called hometown and land. Even if we can no longer survive in the city, we still have a home to live in. However, when young people in Hong Kong leave Hong Kong, they still have a home. Do you know where to go?

This is why many young people participated in the Hong Kong Central incident and they were more anxious than us.