I was too busy with so many tedious stuffs at the office this morning, that’s why I can’t make a post on liketu earlier. And I planned to keep writing on my visit at Peak but ended up I want to show you guys the others instead (change my mind like girls change a clothe? Maybe)
And you can simply skip for my post If you want to take a look to the pictures in professional and elegant style because you can get on their official website in better presentation of that building. I guess the majority of people on Liketu already knew how “good” my photographing skill is, haha. I still recommend you to spend minutes to see my pure, real and unedited pictures of the 1881 Heritage in Hong Kong.
That building was actually the headquarters of the Hong Kong Marine Police when it first come out, and now it becomes a popular landmark for visitors taking pictures and check in on the social media. And they have some luxury brand shops inside of course.
They do have specific theme of the statues for the park putting in front of the maintenance, they change the theme regularly, so I pretty sure the statues are different to the pictures 2 on my post as it was taken back in 2020 June.
It was at the beginning of the pandemic outbreak at the moment, nobody knew it is talking so long to struggle with the virus, I still got a mood to walk outside with my mom during weekend.
Actually it was my first visit in detail at 1881 Heritage , I never ever thinking about to go inside taking a look to find out how it looks like until the outbreak of the pandemic as I thought it was nothing special as I always pass through this area, but the pandemic changed my mind, I should spend more time on the place I am living in, maybe I’ll explore something fresh.
I therefore went upstairs to see how’s the view look like when compare to the ground, em, it was a bit funny for me to look at the view from upstairs, and the buildings look more beautiful than you simply look at them on the ground.
It used to be a Signal Tower, to provide time signals to ships in the harbour in the picture 4, as I remember they also provide the hurricane signals there in the past.
Walk aways further to the signal tower, it should be the main office of the marine police in picture 5, I tried to get inside to take a look unfortunately all the doors were locked. After staying upstairs for about 30 minutes I back to the ground, ah, I almost forgot there was a super old school fire-engine parking at the corner in the building. How can I forget them, you can see how elegant it is in picture 6 & 7.
I thought I should have taken much more pictures at that time, somehow I only have few pictures in my phone, maybe I transferred the other images to my PC hard disk, I will double check and post in more details in my next post (if you guys enjoy this topic)
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I remember this building. It stood out to me as I shopped along harbour city and turned a corner. The architecture is quite unique and I'm quite a fan of the multilayer pillar design.
Moreover, I'm a big fan of the shops and concessions you can find there. It's just pure decadence. What's amazing is you can actually find some of the items highly sought after in other parts of the world right there in display. And they are more than happy to sell it to you. Good luck trying to get that anywhere else in the world.
On the other hand, you mentioned that there is an increasing wealth divide in Hong Kong, and China too. This area doesn't bode very well for people not on the right side of that divide as it only highlights the issue even more. I can imagine a lot of people might see it as quite distasteful. Especially given the size of some of the apartments that they're forced to live in whilst others might spend several years salary just buying a single item (like a watch from A. Lange & Sohne)
The shops around / inside harbour city are too luxury to me, most of them are LV, Channel, YSL, Hermes, etc. I used to visit the Toy'R'us inside harbour city when I was a child, and now, I take my nieces to the Toy'R'us there for the toys 😅
I am happy you enjoy my what I have done during that difficult period, will try to discover more beautiful things and places in HK, indeed, many things and places are being ignored by the local in Hong Kong, it's a good chance for us to explore while we are not able to travel to other countries.
Yeah, the wealth is increasing but not divided in HK and China, many people still have to struggle for 3 meals of the day, we can see many old people trying to pick up the old paper, old can for selling, they have to work for 8/9 hours a day but they can only make 10-20 HK dollars by selling the old paper/can, etc.
Guess you alright know that the property price level in HK is crazy, all the flats are bloodying expensive, we have a new term called "Nano-flat" which is talking about only 200 square ft but selling HKD 3-4 millions, the median monthly income at Hong Kong is HK$ 19200, so you can see how extravagant the property prices is. 😖
Too luxury for mr atyh but not too luxury for mrs atyh who i'm sure has coerced you to buying her many an LV bag from here right?
I stayed in Hong Kong a number of years ago. I believe I stayed in a Nano Room hotel. The room is basically just a bed, a little path to the toilet and that's it. No room to put your luggage flat down.
In terms of how much people are earning there, it isn't actually that low. That said, the emphasis and supply of luxury goods for sale in Hong Kong certainly exceeds the ability for most people to buy them. I would imagine most people shopping there are actually from abroad. Perhaps looking for some tax refunds on their purchases.
Hey bro, nope, I only bought her one LV bag, @celeste413 was having joke, it's not truth
Oh yes, so you know how bad the Nano room in HK is.
Agree, local people cannot afford buying so many luxury items, most of the customers are from the mainland China in the past, probably they are not doing that for tax refunds but for trading, as the same item in HK is 10-15% cheaper than the luxury shop in mainland China, or we should say, they are smuggling actually.
Many luxury shops decided to close the number of shop in HK in the past 2 years as there were no visitors from mainland China at all, and some cosmetic chain closed about 20-30% of the shops in HK in these 2 years either.
😆 everything changed
everything but you. you are still the pretty, pure princess in our eyes. 🤣
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I moved to tears🤣 thank you for saying so😁
My master bathroom is bigger than 200 square feet. Majority people’s income is low, but with super high real estate price, how people can enjoy their life!
People in HK don’t think about enjoy life, we think about struggle on survive
No wonder HK people want to move out.
I want to move out either if my wife doesn’t start her own shop in Shenzhen 😱
We have more communication in Liketu.
Don’t you feel the vibes on here liketu is completely different? It’s funny to see the contras on the reactions of the same group of people in different community
I think because of Mr Lin’s engagement at the beginning makes us so comfortable to communicate to each other more and more.
We can see elmerlin puts lot of effort to run the community, that’s why people willing to contribute as well