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![]() ltlee1 wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: RAK Goes Cool.... Forget about the glitzy part of town when travelling to Hong Kong. I recommend these Hong Kong high density apartments as your next tourist attraction when you visit Hong Kong! It's too bad that they're not for rent, well, they are apparently to local low income people, but not to foreigners who like to spend a one or two nighter where you can live and taste the life of locals (no sexual innuendo there, oh yeah, for sure!). It's like double-intensity NYC! The question remains, how can people *live* in tiny apartments like these? Where does the "how" come from? Have you ever seen homeless people? People can survive homeless. Of course they can live in a small home. A small home is better than no home. Have you guys ever walked across a freeway overpass? If you have, you would see a lot of people living under the freeway, a lot of women living in this condition under freeway overpasses. And this is in America, in California!!! the richest nation on earth. -------- http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ong/html/1.stm "The 30 sq m one-bedroom apartment the government offered was a welcome improvement for the family of six" "He moved here in 1978 from an estate where six were confined to a space of 100 sq ft." -------- This is like human rights abuse! And it's almost sad to see some of these people living there. Many are probably decent people. 10-year-old kids just dash home in uniform after school to dutifully do their homework! And there is no doubt that these low-income places are much much much safer than any inner city in the US!! You won't be shot. But you should arm yourself verbally, just in case, and the recommended gear is: http://www.insultmonger.com/swearing/cantonese.htm Any disappointments? Yes. Some are drab, and many are too generic and lack that signature touch. They all look the same so if you visit one you've probably seen them all. Also the locals probably will not let you into their apartments. Having been to one of these complexes and gone up the stairs into the corridors with friends (straying way off the itinerary, of course, after going up the Bank of China building http://www.molon.de/galleries/China/...building .jpg ) a couple years back, these places are still recommended. Two other things: tourists, like dogs, always 'leave their mark' - that's why sometimes busloads of tourists in North America or elsewhere just hop from washroom to washroom when travelling by coach. So visit and use the washrooms. And one should try out the food also - local flavor, be prepared for it to be fatty, oily, and dirty, but if the locals don't get sick from it, I don't think you will. By the way, what are these small apartments called locally? "Estates"! Credit to Hong Kong people: they do have a sense of humor. |
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It's a prison! http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/p...ts/tourism.htm (1) I don't see any "six people sharing one apartment". (2) I don't see any unhappy face. Tak -- ----------------------------------------------------------------+----- Tak To x --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the xx to get my real email addr |
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![]() RichAsianKid wrote: ltlee1 wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: RAK Goes Cool.... Forget about the glitzy part of town when travelling to Hong Kong. I recommend these Hong Kong high density apartments as your next tourist attraction when you visit Hong Kong! It's too bad that they're not for rent, well, they are apparently to local low income people, but not to foreigners who like to spend a one or two nighter where you can live and taste the life of locals (no sexual innuendo there, oh yeah, for sure!). It's like double-intensity NYC! The question remains, how can people *live* in tiny apartments like these? Where does the "how" come from? Have you ever seen homeless people? People can survive homeless. Of course they can live in a small home. A small home is better than no home. It's a prison! http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/p...ts/tourism.htm All those photos must have taken from the same "estate". I have seen other "estates" that have much bigger room, better atmosphere. |
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![]() Tak To wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: It's a prison! http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/p...ts/tourism.htm (1) I don't see any "six people sharing one apartment". Go back to original link of this thread (2) I don't see any unhappy face. They're posing for the photo! Tak -- ----------------------------------------------------------------+----- Tak To x --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the xx to get my real email addr |
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![]() ltlee1 wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: ltlee1 wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: RAK Goes Cool.... Forget about the glitzy part of town when travelling to Hong Kong. I recommend these Hong Kong high density apartments as your next tourist attraction when you visit Hong Kong! It's too bad that they're not for rent, well, they are apparently to local low income people, but not to foreigners who like to spend a one or two nighter where you can live and taste the life of locals (no sexual innuendo there, oh yeah, for sure!). It's like double-intensity NYC! The question remains, how can people *live* in tiny apartments like these? Where does the "how" come from? Have you ever seen homeless people? People can survive homeless. Of course they can live in a small home. A small home is better than no home. It's a prison! http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/p...ts/tourism.htm In comparison with the big sky of Montana and the endless plain in American midwest, or the Mongolian grassland, metropolitans such as New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong etc are all metaphorical prisons of made of concrete forest. Of course, metaphorical prisons are not real prisons. The most concret prison is ones own mind. If one cannot live without a [BMW or whatever], then he is making a prison for himself. But BMWs set you free......sometimes even from the laws of physics And metaphorically, there is truth in this quip - crime is freedom, and freedom is crime. Really, think about it. Since those 'public estates' are still low crime area.....well....the inference is clear....and with all the 10 year old kids wearing blazers and trousers, wearing uniform carrying their 10 pound 'schoolbag', doing the same thing day in day out, all riding the same bus at exactly the same time of day; with all those identical drab slabs of steel and concrete, the entire housing complex is just one huge symbol of the inertia of Chinese ethos and deafening conformity!! |
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RichAsianKid wrote:
Tak To wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: It's a prison! http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/p...ts/tourism.htm (1) I don't see any "six people sharing one apartment". Go back to original link of this thread Can you read? It said someone "moved here in 1978 from an estate where six were confined to a space of 100 sq ft". That was 1978. Those cramped estates have been gone for decades. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ong/html/6.stm (2) I don't see any unhappy face. They're posing for the photo! Why would they do that if they were unhappy? You think BBC bribed them to put on a smily face? Tak -- ----------------------------------------------------------------+----- Tak To x --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the xx to get my real email addr |
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![]() Tak To wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: Tak To wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: It's a prison! http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/p...ts/tourism.htm (1) I don't see any "six people sharing one apartment". Go back to original link of this thread Can you read? It said someone "moved here in 1978 from an estate where six were confined to a space of 100 sq ft". That was 1978. Those cramped estates have been gone for decades. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ong/html/6.stm What about this: "The 30 sq m one-bedroom apartment the government offered was a welcome improvement for the family of six." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ong/html/2.stm (2) I don't see any unhappy face. They're posing for the photo! Why would they do that if they were unhappy? You think BBC bribed them to put on a smily face? "Face" - what a pun huh! - hey you answered your own question!!! Tak -- ----------------------------------------------------------------+----- Tak To x --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the xx to get my real email addr |
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What about this: "The 30 sq m one-bedroom apartment the government offered was a welcome improvement for the family of six." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ong/html/2.stm Did the article say that there are still 6 people living in that apartment? And if you turn to a couple of pages later, you will see that his neighbor Mr Hong's family of six now consist of only him and his wife. (2) I don't see any unhappy face. They're posing for the photo! Why would they do that if they were unhappy? You think BBC bribed them to put on a smily face? "Face" - what a pun huh! - hey you answered your own question!!! That's probably the greatest insult you can give to the people you claimed to have great sympathy for. Tak -- ----------------------------------------------------------------+----- Tak To x --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the xx to get my real email addr |
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RichAsianKid wrote:
Tak To wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: Tak To wrote: RichAsianKid wrote: It's a prison! http://www.freephotosandvideos.com/p...ts/tourism.htm (1) I don't see any "six people sharing one apartment". Go back to original link of this thread Can you read? It said someone "moved here in 1978 from an estate where six were confined to a space of 100 sq ft". That was 1978. Those cramped estates have been gone for decades. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ong/html/6.stm What about this: "The 30 sq m one-bedroom apartment the government offered was a welcome improvement for the family of six." http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/h...ong/html/2.stm Did the article say that there are still 6 people living in that apartment? And if you turn to a couple of pages later, you will see that his neighbor Mr Hong's family of six now consist of only him and his wife. (2) I don't see any unhappy face. They're posing for the photo! Why would they do that if they were unhappy? You think BBC bribed them to put on a smily face? "Face" - what a pun huh! - hey you answered your own question!!! That's probably the greatest insult you can give to the people you claimed to have great sympathy for. Tak -- ----------------------------------------------------------------+----- Tak To x --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the xx to get my real email addr |
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