Miscellaneous notes on Hong Kong tourism (5) Talking about life in Hong Kong

There have been many versions of houses in Hong Kong.

Generally speaking, what we see is a tall building and a small house, surrounded by neighbors. Standing on both sides of the road is not wide, which makes people feel inexplicably depressed.

However, there are also many luxurious and comfortable properties in Hong Kong, where the rich and middle class live in a low-key life, but you may not know them.

Hong Kong is one of the regions with obvious two-level differentiation. As a modern metropolis with developed economy and complete commercial society, how people of different classes can coexist peacefully and tolerably in a circle is a test of the management ability of the SAR Government.

As far as I know, Hong Kong people generally have a fixed residence, which originated from the rise of the four little dragons in Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan Province Province and South Korea) in the 1960s and 1970s.

At that time, the construction of private houses (commercial houses) was in the ascendant, and the boss started construction when he had a piece of land. Some bosses even turned their factories into houses. Now most of them are Tang buildings.

So far, several major developers in Hong Kong, such as Hang Lung Properties, Cheung Kong Industries, Sun Hung Kai Properties and Xingye International, have made a lot of money.

Some white-collar workers in Hong Kong suddenly got on the bus from brick houses and tile houses (buying private houses for the first time) and became the property class. They are in a good mood and their relatives have envied them for several years.

Because to meet the needs of these people with insufficient funds, the private houses built should be small; Hong Kong is short of land and buildings must be high enough; In this way, most of the private buildings seen in the downtown and the old cities such as Kowloon are thin and tall, and there is no landscape or aesthetic feeling at all. But the victory lies in the convenience of life and transportation. Still very popular.

The toothpick building in Hong Kong (thin and tall). The base is only a few hundred square meters, but it can be built twenty or thirty stories high. When the elevator reached the top, there were four households in four corners, sandwiched between beautiful houses of various colors built by the consortium later, which was quite shabby and was a scene of Hong Kong.

Tang Lou in Hong Kong is a private building with no elevator. You can build up to nine floors. Climbing the ninth floor is nothing for young people, but it is out of reach for the elderly in their prime.

Tanglou is a witness to the development of residential real estate in Hong Kong. Visiting Hong Kong, taking a tinkling car and visiting the Old Tang Building are the must-see attractions.

It is said that Chow Yun Fat invested in the Tang building in his early years and collected rent, owning dozens of properties. Now it seems that these dozens of properties are really nothing, not comparable to the price of a luxury private property and a luxury unit.

Houses in Hong Kong, as long as they face the street, are shops on the first or second floor. This kind of shop building is favored by office workers because of its good geographical location, convenient transportation and low rent.

In the final analysis, it is still necessary to talk about shops and owners along the street. Most of these commercial and residential buildings were jointly built by the owners. Our own shop, with living security, can also solve the housing problem, and the surplus part of our house can be rented out, which is also a family business. This commercial and residential building is the enviable luxury life of the first middle class in Hong Kong. This is the rich in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. They are now part of the stable old middle class in Hong Kong.

Owners' organizations hire lawyers and elect the chairman of the management organization. Formulate detailed articles of association. It is a powerful democratically elected self-owned property management institution. Some owners are from the same hometown, so the ancestral hall of the hometown association was reserved when the building was built. Signs such as "Hainan Hometown Association" and "Fujian Guild Hall" can still be seen now. There are also various activities now. I was once invited to participate in the reception work of Hainan Association, which was to receive fellow villagers from Hainan Association of the United States to visit relatives in Hong Kong. It's well organized and the activities are very interesting.

A slightly higher-end residential building is still a "subway roof". Or a transportation hub. In other words, the entrances and exits of the house and subway are connected with shops through corridors, so you don't have to stand in the hot sun in summer and step on mud in rainy days. This is really convenient and beneficial for Hong Kong migrant workers with tropical maritime monsoon climate.

The subway roof is connected with the subway station through a special tunnel, and the property management company is also an enterprise under the MTR. The "Olympic shopping district" in Hong Kong where I lived before is a typical subway superstructure. After the completion of high-speed railway station, the rental price of the superstructure of Kowloon Station has certainly gone up.

This part of the apartment building is the main force of private buildings in Hong Kong and the first choice for new white-collar workers. Developers are also celebrities with deep pockets, such as Li Ka-shing and so on.

There are also some high-grade houses on the island, among which Mawan and Yujingwan are famous. Most foreigners are willing to live on the island, followed by China people with passports from other countries, and a small number are people who return to Hong Kong and Hong Kong. The smaller islands are inhabited by fishermen from Hong Kong.

The main means of transportation on the island is ferry steamboat, which is as convenient as bus. You can also take the subway, but you have to take the bus to connect. The structure of these buildings is very similar to that of mainland communities. There are no streets connected with shops, only buses connect them with shops and docks.

There are only steamboats connecting the big island and the small island, which is inconvenient for office workers, so there are only old people, children and fishermen.

The residential floors built on the big island are generally below 30 floors, and the rooms are also large. Compared with the luxurious private buildings built on Hong Kong Island in the city center, it is more in line with the taste of floating in mainland ports. At the same time, because of the traffic and lots, villas have been built one after another, and the house price and rent are also within the acceptable range.

The villa by the sea is connected with the holiday house. From a distance, the bright large glass windows reflect the light of the sea, bringing a little coolness to the summer heat.

There are still some people in Hong Kong who keep their own villages. Farmers and fishermen live in the village. An island not far from mine is a fishing village. By boat, there is no other means of transportation.

The houses in the village are all built by one family. I visited a bakery curiously, mainly because I heard the boss speak Mandarin. I went to chat and learned that my boss was from Fujian and came to Hong Kong in the 1960s. Now my children are working on Hong Kong Island, and my grandson is studying on the island where I live. Her house is her own land. She pays taxes to the government, buys land and builds three floors. The first floor is a storefront, the second floor is where the old couple live, and the third floor is where her son lives. Her daughter is married, but lives at home because her son-in-law is a baker.

Farmers and villages in Hong Kong, like natural villages in the Mainland, also have villagers' management institutions. Self-built houses are rented, bought and sold. A friend once bought land and built a house in the rural area of Tai Po. Later, there was no news and I don't know what happened.

All the rich people in Hong Kong live on the top of the mountain.

The top of the mountain is a general term, not necessarily living in colorful clouds. As we all know, Li Ka-shing and other families live in independent villas, with independent access and their own security guards, which is also a mountain. Similar to the villas where the rich live in the mainland. On a mountain under the jurisdiction of the outlying island where I live, it is said that there is a villa with an internet cafe. We mortals just look at it from a distance and have never been interested in approaching it.

There are pawnshops and capsule rooms in Hong Kong. Strictly speaking, these are not houses to live in, but shelters. When a room is divided into several grids, the net on the bedspread is a narrow space. I've never seen a real seal, only a photo.

Capsule room is a gimmick for newcomers in the workplace. I don't know. A six-square-meter house has a desk and a bed in the bathroom and kitchen. How do I turn around?

The most enviable house in Hong Kong is public housing. It is the low-rent housing village. The residential area has a good geographical location and complete supporting facilities. There are many conditions for applying for public housing, and identity and income are the most important conditions. If the income is above a certain level, you can't apply. Only Hong Kong permanent residents are eligible to queue up, and the family and average income must meet government regulations. It will take about five or six years to queue up for the lottery. If you are not satisfied with your choice and don't want it, you should give up and queue up again.

There have been no new housing villages in recent years, saying that the Hong Kong government has no land to build. Hong Kong people complain a lot. The land under the jurisdiction of Hong Kong only accounts for about 50%, and the rest are islands, reefs and shallow seas. When Britain leases land, it is allowed to buy private land. Due to historical reasons, the Hong Kong government has no land available now, and it is sky-high to buy private land, which is also very difficult for the government.

Hong Kong's civil servants and police also have housing provided by the government, all of which are welfare houses.

The topography of Hong Kong is hilly by the sea, and the flat land is scarce. To get a large piece of flat land, you only need to fill the sea, which is very expensive. Part of the Hong Kong International Airport on Lantau Island was reclaimed from the sea. The original Kai Tak Airport was abandoned because the terrain could not be expanded. Now it is a good residential area.

The housing rent in Hong Kong is the highest in the world. Buying a house is one of the pursuits of Hong Kong people's happy life. This is the same as the mainland.

Generally speaking, the house in Hong Kong is in harmony with its developed commodity market economy, and the rights and interests of renting and buying a house are exactly the same. This property market with the same rights and interests has greatly improved your quality of life in Hong Kong.