Would you rather live and work in? HONG KONG or SINGAPORE?

[silverkris]

Originally Posted by willister

I visited Taiwan as a tourist and for work and I was underwhelmed if anything. It's a drab city, the tours and museums I go to keep perpetuating this premise that Taipei was only temporary makeshift city for the KMT who was going to return to the mainland in the then near future. The only real positive I could take from Taiwan was the natural and unspoilt beauty of the East Coast and arguably the most refined manners from a Chinese state/city. The Mainland is no doubt rough/rude/uncouth and I didn't find Hong Kong or Singapore that much better.


Quite frankly many of the developed/redeveloped parts of Ho Chi Minh City are better aesthetically than Taipei itself. The Taiwanese don't seem to like to dump some $$ into the city or just don't like mountain loads of debt? Taipei/Taiwan is definitely not a "glossy" type of city a la Tokyo or Seoul.


The more you live in a city, the more cracks you find and the initial excitement and novelty generally wears off.


Tokyo is by far the most refine in East Asia, hands down, it's developed since the 60s. My mate works for Toyota and does frequent trips for the past 10 years. The novelty factor has worn off, he now has 2 kids and quite frankly whilst still a very liveable city by world standards he still prefers home (Melbourne, Australia).

I think Taipei is better appreciated the longer you are there. Yes, it's not going to be flashy like Hong Kong or Tokyo. Its charms, really, are in the people - who are friendly and really quite down to earth. At street level.

[Cheng99]

I would rather work and live in Singapore, I would rather treat Hong Kong as a vacation spot.

[fayewongfan]

There are many HK people interested in moving to Taiwan, and also many Taiwanese interested in moving to HK.


Traditionally people in these 2 places move to western english-speaking countries. HK and Taiwan are just second choices for most people.


My advice to the HK people, dont move to Taiwan if you cannot earn enough in Taiwan. Taiwan's economy is not as good as the Western side of the Taiwan strait. Better move to Mainland China, as it is still growing a lot in economy.