How Expats Are Surviving In The World’s Most Expensive City: Hong Kong

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  • Опубліковано 15 січ 2025

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  • @vlight
    @vlight  2 місяці тому

    Do you think Hong Kong is too expensive to live in as an expat? How do you manage living costs in your city? Let’s talk about it!

  • @michaelthong598
    @michaelthong598 2 роки тому +3

    Yes, UK is wet and cold. London is broke. Sad.

  • @keniceeunice2644
    @keniceeunice2644 2 роки тому +2

    Thank you for making these videos which make me understand the other sides of HK. We are local we bought government housing schemes home, we buy foods in wet markets and enjoy beaches here. So, we may not know the situation of expats.

  • @Jojo-vv9ue
    @Jojo-vv9ue 2 місяці тому

    It can be affordable. Individual items aren't more expensive than things in the UK, US or Singapore but even so, the money runs like water there. Everywhere you look there are so many places to spend money and so many attractive things you would want to buy, it's almost impossible to go out without parting with some $$.

  • @hellovagim
    @hellovagim Рік тому +1

    That person just want to travel for a few months and can’t think of any place to live 😂

  • @thespeechlessangler4829
    @thespeechlessangler4829 2 роки тому +23

    Hong Kong is a much better place to live, in comparison to the UK.

    • @koszehang
      @koszehang 2 роки тому +2

      Oh, I definitely agree with you if we are talking about Hong Kong and London itself!

    • @Ccb88888
      @Ccb88888 2 роки тому +3

      Compared to London-yes. But compared to other British cities like Bristol, Nottingham, Edinburgh or Durham - give me the UK any day…

    • @keniceeunice2644
      @keniceeunice2644 2 роки тому +3

      All depends on different situations of persons. I personally can’t accept the weather of UK where I ‘ve been live on and off for many years. Sunshine n beaches are the most important things to my stay .

    • @abreathoffreshair1
      @abreathoffreshair1 2 роки тому +2

      The UK is a political mess suffering an economic downturn, while Hong Kong is ruled by a dictatorship that's in economic collapse. It's managing to be one of the few places worse than the UK.

    • @Makinen689
      @Makinen689 Рік тому +1

      @@Ccb88888 nah man! Bristol is rough and expensive. The wage is appalling. Public transportation, job opportunities(white collar jobs specifically), varieties of food, weather, taxation, safety, international travel, entertainment, property price . It’s not even comparable to HK. In general, UK is quite f****d.

  • @DonnieChoi
    @DonnieChoi 7 місяців тому +1

    The cost of living is getting higher everywhere in the world. I am from Hong Kong and live in Brazil. It's the same here.

    • @thomaskhuu7540
      @thomaskhuu7540 3 місяці тому

      How did you end up in Brazil? 😮

  • @CaliothGaming
    @CaliothGaming Рік тому +4

    IMO london is more expensive

  • @Makinen689
    @Makinen689 Рік тому +1

    The cost of living crisis is just the same as any developed economy unfortunately

    • @canto_v12
      @canto_v12 7 місяців тому

      The pandemic made things worse almost everywhere, but despite that most cities still remain more affordable than Hong Kong because of Hong Kong's insane property costs. It's like that because of their superficially low income and business tax rates. The government stays funded by selling land as the land ownership model has not changed since colonial days.

  • @canto_v12
    @canto_v12 7 місяців тому

    The guy who wants to leave Hong Kong just wants a sabbatical 🤣

  • @terroristeoverdoz
    @terroristeoverdoz Рік тому +4

    Why would you still want to be in Hong Kong when you said HK is not suitable for living, like the boy want to live here there few months?? There obviously some perks and benefit compare to your home countries. If you spend 90% of your salary from 50000 hkd a month, you still have 5000 hkd as saving, will you have this saving if you go to a less expensive country, no.

    • @canto_v12
      @canto_v12 7 місяців тому

      Sounds like he needs a vacation more than a new home.

  • @laichufloraleung1503
    @laichufloraleung1503 Рік тому

    Local food and local restaurants are a lot cheaper ! expensive to buy imported food. Local wet markets are convenient and value for money.

  • @canto_v12
    @canto_v12 7 місяців тому

    Hong Kong has been on and off the #1 spot for decades now. This is no surprise, and regardless of the pandemic and political crises in recent years, Hong Kong's basic MO has been the same. Low personal and businesses taxes, enabled by the continuation of the colonial government land ownership system and the resulting astronomical property costs.

  • @historyhongkong7521
    @historyhongkong7521 Місяць тому

    What are the most stable jobs please?

  • @di-lp4mq
    @di-lp4mq 7 місяців тому +1

    banana is one of the cheapest thing you can buy.

  • @rbf-9326
    @rbf-9326 8 місяців тому +1

    The white lady is stressed out haha god bless her

  • @usernowhere4292
    @usernowhere4292 Рік тому +1

    Yeah you all have a choice to leave so you do not care about changing the system which the locals are desperate for and fought for. Making a better home has become a threat to the national security.

    • @canto_v12
      @canto_v12 7 місяців тому

      This doesn't make sense, if they really didn't like it and didn't care, they would have left. These expats stay because they like the place. Hong Kong is expensive because *people want to be here.*

    • @usernowhere4292
      @usernowhere4292 7 місяців тому

      @@canto_v12 The stay for enjoying the white supremacy and making money. They left after they have had enough. Live what the locals have been living, then you can say something.

  • @iloveindiandfood557
    @iloveindiandfood557 8 місяців тому +2

    hk isnt as expensive as you think.

    • @canto_v12
      @canto_v12 7 місяців тому

      Depends on how flexible you are with employment and commuting. Yes, you can find "attainable" (not "affordable") housing but for the working class who can't WFH, it's a terrible rat race to be in, and because the borders are closed they can't just "move out of town."

  • @peterj.9360
    @peterj.9360 3 місяці тому

    HK is the best place for a single man, very easy to go out for party and hook up girls.

  • @taipangwong356
    @taipangwong356 Місяць тому

    The most expensive city is Singapore. Please fact check.

  • @Adolf1567-l6r
    @Adolf1567-l6r 8 днів тому

    Expats calling western migrants..non western calling them migrants workers 😅