Re: Hong Kong property developer's market value drops $4.9 b
Thank you for posting NB. I will look at your link. I'm interested in hearing from you, as I have followed your work on other sites for some time and noticed you'd left Nexus. Welcome to United People.
I never saw such disparity in wealth as what I witnessed in Asia.
On the streets of Kowloon and Hong Kong, throngs of well-dressed Asian men and women, cell phones pressed to the ears and all walking very quickly. Streets and alleys so crowded you just have to keep on walking in a straight line behind the person in front of you. Making corners is a problem. Like navigating the L.A. freeways during rush hour but you're on foot. Crazy.
My own hotel room was so small the door touched the bed when you opened it. Tiny. Cost a fortune and i was lucky to find it tucked in an alley alongside a 7-11 and KFC. I left Hong Kong earlier than scheduled, just could not bear that scene one more minute. I have never returned.
I walked into a building in Kowloon by mistake one day: this is pretty much
what I saw although it was dark and eerily quiet, and it was shipping crates stacked one atop the other with long rickety wooden ladders to climb to the top "bunk rooms", not these cages, you'll get the point.
I was saddened and horrified. I left soon after this happened but as you can tell, that image is still burned in my brain.