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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what's up bro? you ate something dirty? need some tablet? I got many in my backpack, just let me know if you need 😁
I moved to tears🤣 thank you for saying so😁
tears? why?
你們倆的對話笑屎我喇，尤其是翻譯過的英文😂
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 😱