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Anyone living or lived in Hong Kong?

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LOLyourFace

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Teaching English or any other jobs?

I have many many many questions... 😉

Things I've heard from a Hong Kong international student:
*I hear I can become a private english tutor for meeellions of dollars for some rich ramily
*Everything is cheap there, especially food.
*You can get around speaking only English (I find this fascinating, the only place in Asia?)
*If you have a BSBA degree from US, you're at a great advantage when it comes to jobs..
 
I was there during thanksgivng, cost of living is high for locals, but ok for U.S visitors, housing suck thou, a tiny little place can cost over 1million and up HKD (1USD = ~7.77HKD). there are tons of job in the tourist business, If you can speak english and cantonese.
 
Originally posted by: richardycc
I was there during thanksgivng, cost of living is high for locals, but ok for U.S visitors, housing suck thou, a tiny little place can cost over 1million and up HKD (1USD = ~7.77HKD). there are tons of job in the tourist business, If you can speak english and cantonese.
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Things I've heard from a Hong Kong international student:
*I hear I can become a private english tutor for meeellions of dollars from some rich ramily.
*Everything is cheap there, especially food.
*You can get around speaking only English (I find this fascinating, the only place in Asia?)
*If you have a BSBA degree from US, you're at a great advantage when it comes to jobs..

Care to elaborate?
 
Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
Teaching English or any other jobs?

I have many many many questions... 😉

Things I've heard from a Hong Kong international student:
*I hear I can become a private english tutor for meeellions of dollars for some rich ramily
*Everything is cheap there, especially food.
*You can get around speaking only English (I find this fascinating, the only place in Asia?)
*If you have a BSBA degree from US, you're at a great advantage when it comes to jobs..
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1. They always will prefer quai lo (*sp) than an Asian tutor.
2. Food is cheap, but everything is pretty much the same here. Housing is expensive and retail electronics isn't much cheaper.
3. Yeah right, who told you that. You need Cantonese and Mandarin, there are Mainlanders now in HK.
4. Depends on the company. IT field isn't that hot and there are tons of applicants each year for teaching jobs in Asia. You'll have better luck in Taiwan

Just some info I've pickup over the years from the FAQ man.
 
Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
Originally posted by: richardycc
I was there during thanksgivng, cost of living is high for locals, but ok for U.S visitors, housing suck thou, a tiny little place can cost over 1million and up HKD (1USD = ~7.77HKD). there are tons of job in the tourist business, If you can speak english and cantonese.
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Things I've heard from a Hong Kong international student:
*I hear I can become a private english tutor for meeellions of dollars from some rich ramily.

not sure, but if they do, they will most likely hire a westerner with an english degree from an ivy league school. most of the rich people send their kids to study in the UK or USA, etc...in fact, my wife went to college with a few that their parents are billionaires and famous in hk.

*Everything is cheap there, especially food.

everything is cheap for visitor, but if you work there, I think avg monthly income is around $8000-15k, thats like $800-1000 a month here.

*You can get around speaking only English (I find this fascinating, the only place in Asia?)

english is the 2nd language there, you do know that hong kong used to be a british colony until 1997. I guess you can get by with just english with the younger generation and in the tourist area, but older folks wouldn't understand you. I think singapore uses english as their 1st language, not sure.

*If you have a BSBA degree from US, you're at a great advantage when it comes to jobs..

not sure, but a degree from a foreign school can give someone an edge.

Care to elaborate?
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* Don't expect to ear too much teaching english, as there are quite a bit of people there who can speak and teach english already.

* Food there is amazing and is very, very cheap.

* Clothing is cheap there because they keep changing their style... so if you're not too trendy, you can get some real bargains.

* Technology items are slightly cheaper if you compare the same product, but overall they are around the same price, but you get newer products (coming in from taiwan, japan, korea).

* Depending on location, you actually CAN get around using only english. When I was there few months ago, HK was pushing very hard for their service industry to learn english. The younger generations HKers all know english, and the older folks do too, because HK was an english colony for 100 years. There is an influx of mainlanders, but I don't count them HKers.

* Having an American degree does give you a SLIGHT advantage in HK. But don't expect them to fall all over you just because you're from the US. As all Asian countries are, they value dedication, long hours, smartness and low pay over someone with a nice fancy diploma from the states.

Conclusion: Don't think about going over there to make big bucks or saving lots of money. You won't, not unless you got some crazy business plans that will do such a thing. If that is the case, PM me. =)

BTW, I was born in HK and went back a few times.
 
i lived there till i was 8. I visited there 5 years ago.

When you are inside a building its fine, but walking around in the streets sucked.
It was dirty, and people are rude.
 
Hong Kong is polluted, crowded, expensive, and dirty. You might wanna check out teaching English in Taiwan. There's more to see and do there.
 
Originally posted by: HamSupLo
Hong Kong is polluted, crowded, expensive, and dirty. You might wanna check out teaching English in Taiwan. There's more to see and do there.
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Yeah the pervert (Ham Sup Lo) has the right idea.
Japan has some nice scenery too (wink wink)
 
i just did a search about hong kogn and found t his..
anyone still interested in Hong KOng?
i was born there and have lived there for 13 years.
I go to boarding school now, but I go back twice a year for christmas and summer
 
Originally posted by: gshock888
u have to learn mandarin with all the mainland chinese visitors now

in HK, knowing mandarin > knowing english
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ahah
ditto to that...
big green people 😛

and yes, you can get by in Hong kong knowing only english, it's hard, but you'll live
 
Taiwan is better for what you're looking for. (they recently started to have english in elementary school)

You can really make obscene amount of money there for what you do everyday (speaking english).

I have connections there to open up a private tutoring school, but I'm not ready to move back yet. Need to knock up my wife and have a kid first.
 
Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
You can get around speaking only English (I find this fascinating, the only place in Asia?)
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what do u mean by "the only place in asia"..there are other places in asia where you could get around speaking only in English.. please do not generalize... I apologize if i have misunderstood your statement...

Also, i have been to Hong Kong and i dont think you can get around speaking only in English.... u do need to know a little mandarin / cantonese to make things easier for yourself..

i think singapore uses english as their 1st language
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true... Singapore, imo, has 4 official languages which include English, Malay, Tamil and Chinese ( probably mandarin )
 
Originally posted by: LOLyourFace
*I hear I can become a private english tutor for meeellions of dollars for some rich ramily
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maybe, that is still quite valid. but not for meellions of dollars as you may expect.

*Everything is cheap there, especially food.
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yes, food can be cheaper there, food is cheap at supermarket and local restuarant, but if you fancy any so-called "higher class" cafe it would cost ALOT more than the US.
for an extreme example, Chris's Ruth cost about 30 percent than US's equilivant.

*You can get around speaking only English (I find this fascinating, the only place in Asia?)
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umm,m... yteah, kinda, not really though. ppl in HK can speak english not too fluently however.

*If you have a BSBA degree from US, you're at a great advantage when it comes to jobs..
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dead wrong. .... dead dead wrong

 
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