Hi Haim, Re <<TJ for the safety of your family best relocate ALL>>
(1) Right now HK is the safest place by quite a stretch
(1-i) essentially virus-free and no lockdown; only masks and social-distance protocol
(1-ii) schools are physically open
(1-iii) restaurants yummy and featuring cuisine from all around the planet
(1-iv) no riots on the streets given that we now also, as all domains, have a national security code in place. Our code is not as strict as the one in USA or China, in that our max sentence for infraction is half of the usual all around the planet.
(1-v) foreign funding for street-level crimes have been stopped by use of ‘3-hops’ money-laundering laws imposed on HK and many parts of the planet by Team USA actions over the past 5-10 years
(1-vi) the savings-rich society, due to the two sets of laws that truly matter, that of property and of taxes, is hunkered down to do as we best can, working, and given the macro happenings, our electricity bill is strangely zero-ed across the board on all manner of properties - i just noticed
(1-vii) the property market is so far orderly, with reduced transactions but still featuring transactions, off of the meaningless needling-peak prices, but otherwise healthy, likely because the banks only loaned 50% loan-to-value for donkey’s years
(1-viii) bottom line, why go anywhere else as relative conditions everywhere else neither measures up against HK nor stack up against Kowloon?
(2) As far as Plan B is concerned, I am looking for cute hideaway on nearby Lamma Island, as should riots ever break out, even as the mobs shall unlikely be able to close in on my side of HK, would be even less likely be able to make commotion on Lamma Island - the locals would simply beat back the troublemakers. Besides I need to shop as there might be bargains, and I had always wanted a weekend place, a difficult proposition in quite dear HK.
(3) I suppose Plan C can be Canada / Vancouver, and Plan ... etc etc etc ... have standing offers on a Maui ranch, a pearl farm in Palawan, an estate in S France, and there is alway the Peninsula Hotel of Kowloon, the InterContinental Beach Comber on Bora Bora, etc, but whilst those are all easier than Lamma Island, less realistic. I like international city living, and there are very few true international cities on this planet. I find Singapore boring.
(4) W/r to China and illiberal and and and, per the article cited, I suggest the author best rethink what China was actually like 40 years ago in 1980.
China is, and quite unimaginably as far as from perspective of 1980 is concerned, far more liberal today than relative to years 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2019.
Am not sure I can say same w/r to any other society on this planet.
IOW, everything is fine.
As with the MSM grouping which compares Xi Jinping to Chairman Mao, I giggle, for even hinting at that comparison tells me the MSM with own agenda neither knows the former not understands the latter.
As I always suspected that wrong premise would lead to bad directions and wrong moves, and then on to the rocks, as far as ocean navigation goes. |
