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Freddie_Unbelievable
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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Eunoia,
Let me add my two cents. I know you value my contributions.
I would live in a place accessable to all the ammenities that Hong Kong has to offer yet quiet and green enough to live comfortably.
Hope this helps! |
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Ludwig
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
Posts: 1096
Location: 22� 20' N, 114� 11' E
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| Eunoia wrote: |
| I would like to live in/near the Tai Koo/Quarry Bay area, and I think my budget will allow for *about* HK$ 8000 for rent. Is it reasonable to think that I will be able to find a halfway decent 1-2 bedroom apartment in this area for that price? |
No problem; especially in those areas.
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| I'm not *too* worried about a view or a balcony (although I really don't want to open my bedroom window first thing in the morning to look straight across into someone else's apt....) |
There are not too many non-luxury flats here with a balcony; they use up too much room. There are also not that many days a year you can actually open your window here. Indeed, many people I know who live in the mid-levels (around $20,000 a month) have windows that you can not open even if you wanted to. They are fixed, one piece sheets of glass built into the wall. |
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Ludwig
Joined: 26 Apr 2004
Posts: 1096
Location: 22� 20' N, 114� 11' E
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| I was surprised to hear that "half-decent views" could be acquired for as little as $7k+ - sounds auspicious. I have been told that it is very much a 'search and seek' mission to find something reasonable. |
'Mark-O', I too was surprised at first, I suppose, but you must understand that - to local HK Chinese at least - outside of the high-end of the property market there is, arguably, not really all that much emphasis placed on such factors as a 'view'.
My impression has always been that it is a 'working city' and thus one's flat is - to a large extent - as well as a home, a place from which to go to work from, and to return to from work. My point is that convenience is of the utmost importance to local HK Chinese, as evinced, for example, by the premiums for the flats built above shopping centres and MTR stations, which to me at least would normally call for a reduction in rent (but then I have spent a lot of my adult life in the Transvaal, and in the arctic forests of northern Sweden and Finland and thus have got used to a lot of space).
I can certainly understand such a desire for sheer convenience as regards proximity to one's workplace and/or public transportation in HK. When I was a NET for example I chose to live very close to my school; and was thus in an area that is not exactly typically associated with ex-pats. To be quite honest, though, if I could have I most likely would have chosen to live at the school!
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| Ludwig, how long would you estimate it to take you to get to Kowloon Tong on an average day? |
That would be a 20-minute walk down to the minibus stop (that factor alone is enough to keep the rent within reasonable limits), then a wait of no more than 10 minutes for a bus, then a 15-minute racing-style ride down to Choi Hung MTR, then a 20 minute MTR ride to Kowloon Tong (trains every 2 or 3 minutes). |
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ela_espanola
Joined: 22 Jun 2004
Posts: 18
Location: Toronto, Canada...soon in Guangzhou
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| Posted: Fri Jun 25, 2004 7:14 am Post subject: hey |
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wow simon u are 2 funny  nice post |
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