LEAVING HONG KONG: Why We Moved Away From The City We Love (TBT Throwback Thursday)

Jenny & Alex

Back in 2013 we officially moved away from Hong Kong. This was a bittersweet moment for us because we both LOVE Hong Kong!

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WHY WE LOVE HONG KONG

Hong Kong is a really special place and our quality of life in Hong Kong was AMAZING! We lived 30 minutes to “Central” (the center of downtown) and we had an awesome trailhead 5 minutes behind our place with access to some of the most beautiful hiking trails around. Our apartment was near the top floor of our building and overlooked the mountains (with a partial ocean view). Hong Kong also has one of the most efficient and highly developed transportation systems on earth. You can literally walk out at any time and move around the city quickly and easily. You don’t need a car like in Detroit. And finally, the FOOD in Hong Kong is spectacular! You can walk out and graze at any time of day and the food alone makes Hong Kong one of our top pics for places to visit if you’re a foodie!

WHY WE LEFT HONG KONG

Hong Kong has been the most unaffordable city in the world for the last 8 years and median real estate prices are almost 20x annual income which means for a family earning a 50,000 annual salary they would be paying almost a MILLION DOLLARS for a typical small apartment. It’s INSANELY EXPENSIVE! Since we wanted to start our own business to host travellers from around the world we quickly realised that we wouldn’t be able to afford to own our own place with the little bit of money we had saved up. At that point we decided to venture back to the states and see what other cities we could find that would give us a better chance of building our dream.

We still love Hong Kong and we always want to have a connection to the city, but for now we’re very happy that we moved back to the US and we look forward to hopping back and forth between both places moving ahead.