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Well, I just used the apartment to get some sleep and the location was perfect to get to work and to LKF.
Hong Kong has some superb beaches, forests and hiking paths for the weekends. Plus, I never had to cook for myself since there were amazing eateries on literally every corner. Probably my favourite city on the planet.
Meat shopping for the BBQ at the Jordan MTR station:
BBQ at Shek O:
BBQ at Shek O 2:
Stanley:
Another market in Central:
A Thai/Chinese restaurant at which I was a regular... Unfortunately it closed after Chinese New Year... For whatever reason... Non-stop Bob Marley music.
View from the 10000 Buddhas Monastery towards what I believe was a pagoda of a buddhist cemetery:
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Still could never life there.. I could only live in America if anywhere.
I don't like isolating myself in countries thousands of miles away with completely different laws etc. imagine what would happen in an emergency
I certainly wasn't isolated Plus, I can't really think of an emergency that would have been a major issue in Hong Kong. Doctors/police/immigration officers spoke English, I had proper health insurance and people had my Chinese cell phone number. So there was nothing to worry about in my books.
Last edited by viribusunitis; 08-02-2014 at 02:18 PM..
I was looking at uni's in America and alot of them are in these wee small towns with nothing in them. For me at least the definition of small and rural is different to an American.Alot of these Universities are in these towns with nothing in them about 500 miles from any actual city. I'm not a city dweller but that would kill me.
Maine is the worst.
Not only that but a lot of college towns look almost exactly the same in terms of how they are laid out and they definitely lack character in my opinion.
Lawrence, Kansas, Ames, Iowa and Stillwater, Oklahoma are very similar
People, please don't indulge in criticizing the lives and lifestyle choices of others - that's not what this thread is about. People love where they live, or things about where they live, for a myriad of reasons, most of which are pretty personal. Let's please try to rise above nitpicking the choices of others.
Not my every day life right now, but it will be for two months this coming winter Koh Samui, Thailand where we visited earlier this year for a wedding. Loved it so much we are renting a bungalow there that is near a beach - across the road.
People, please don't indulge in criticizing the lives and lifestyle choices of others - that's not what this thread is about. People love where they live, or things about where they live, for a myriad of reasons, most of which are pretty personal. Let's please try to rise above nitpicking the choices of others.
Not really my everyday life now, but it once was. This is where I went to camp when I was a boy. I recently looked it at just like this on Google Streetview and noticed the signs had changed. It now belongs to a church group. After doing some research, I found out the camp was foreclosed on. On one hand, I'm sad to hear that, but I also found out these new owners periodically open up the camp to the public during the summer. I haven't been there in 12 years, so the idea of going is pretty tempting. I should do it before summer is over, swim in the same lake I swam in almost everyday in the summer of years. So many memories... I could walk this place blindfolded. It is on the edge of what is almost continuous wilderness. It certainly felt that way if you hiked east off the campground, as we would often do. You could conceivably hike from the camp and eventually hit the massive Wharton State Forest without passing through any towns.
Why was I out in the middle of nowhere during a thunderstorm, you ask? I was out cutting down saplings along a forest path, deer hunting season is coming up and we want people to walk along specific paths, away from the fields of fire. The other guy was smart and left fifteen minutes before the floodgates opened.
Meat shopping for the BBQ at the Jordan MTR station:
BBQ at Shek O:
BBQ at Shek O 2:
Stanley:
Another market in Central:
A Thai/Chinese restaurant at which I was a regular... Unfortunately it closed after Chinese New Year... For whatever reason... Non-stop Bob Marley music.
View from the 10000 Buddhas Monastery towards what I believe was a pagoda of a buddhist cemetery:
I certainly wasn't isolated Plus, I can't really think of an emergency that would have been a major issue in Hong Kong. Doctors/police/immigration officers spoke English, I had proper health insurance and people had my Chinese cell phone number. So there was nothing to worry about in my books.
Lol I was like "Holy **** none of these looks like Austria AT ALL" then I saw Hong Kong.
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Plus, I can't really think of an emergency that would have been a major issue in Hong Kong. Doctors/police/immigration officers spoke English, I had proper health insurance and people had my Chinese cell phone number. So there was nothing to worry about in my books.
Koh Samui, Thailand where we visited earlier this year for a wedding. Loved it so much we are renting a bungalow there that is near a beach - across the road. 
