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View of Hong Kong From the Peak. Across the water is the Kowloon side I work to the right of the tall building on the right side of the photo, on Hong Kong Island.
This is the Kowloon side, most of the buildings weren't allowed to be over 5 stories high because of Kai Tak airport. This is my favorite parts of HK, the dingy old side. Lots more to see and explore. Better food.
The old airport,
My wife said you used to be able to see people shaving in their houses when you were landing.
I remember when I was in the Navy and we pulled in, those planes would fly right through the harbor and drop out of the sky.
Perfect example of the divide between urban and countryside.
This is where the New Territories start.
Village houses in the New Territories, 3 story concrete bungalow style. in the humid summers they get serious condensation and moldy if you dont stay on top of it.
We own one of these, the ground floor is my wife's studio, the middle floor we rent out and we live in the top floor with the rooftop.
We would rather live in one of these. Than stacked up on top of each other in massive buildings.
This is the Kowloon side, most of the buildings weren't allowed to be over 5 stories high because of Kai Tak airport. This is my favorite parts of HK, the dingy old side. Lots more to see and explore. Better food.
The old airport,
My wife said you used to be able to see people shaving in their houses when you were landing.
I remember when I was in the Navy and we pulled in, those planes would fly right through the harbor and drop out of the sky.
Perfect example of the divide between urban and countryside.
This is where the New Territories start.
Village houses in the New Territories, 3 story concrete bungalow style. in the humid summers they get serious condensation and moldy if you dont stay on top of it.
We own one of these, the ground floor is my wife's studio, the middle floor we rent out and we live in the top floor with the rooftop.
We would rather live in one of these. Than stacked up on top of each other in massive buildings.
Once I was in a drive through line behind a small pickup. A young man was driving and a small boy about 5 was in the back/bed. When the man got to the service window the little boy stood up and pee'd on the side of the building. I thought the man was going to knock all the paint off his door trying to get out to stop the kid but he was trapped!
When I got to the window the lady inside was still laughing like me… my sides hurt.
It was funny, the man's predicament more so than the boy.
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Gramps had a video, but we can't get it ti download.
We loved it! The Fourth of July Parade was right across the little foot bridge and the rodeo was across from the RV park! Great little town!
Neither can I, thats why we are moving at the end of this year, 12 years in Hong Kong is enough, tired of the crowds, pollution, trash everywhere, rude miserable people.
I've spent a total of 23 years in Asia,
Its time to go home.
I have spent some short periods of time in parts of Asia. Loved the rural people. Hated the cities.
I am certain you will enjoy being home when it happens, but be prepared for culture shock and perhaps an extended adjustment time.
We had a bit of a culture shock this past summer when we went home.
We couldn't get over how nice and helpful people were. Usually people want something from you when they do that over here. It could have been because we were buying a house as well...
But i like to think small town rural life is still the way it was when I was growing up.
One major thing we noticed was how BIG the portions were! Along with some of the people eating them...
Asia isnt bad, just Hong Kong is a hard place to live for a small town guy.
We couldn't get over how nice and helpful people were. Usually people want something from you when they do that over here. It could have been because we were buying a house as well...
But i like to think small town rural life is still the way it was when I was growing up.
One major thing we noticed was how BIG the portions were! Along with some of the people eating them...
Asia isnt bad, just Hong Kong is a hard place to live for a small town guy.
There will be some similarities but also some difference dependin*on where you settle.
I think Hong Kong would be hard for most of us.
@Justin76 Oh your pictures bought back memories and I flew into Hong Kong through the old airport and I remember praying on the landing, your wife is so right about seeing people shaving too . It was my first time flying internationally and it frightened the beegeebers out of me. Cowloon has not changed much since I was there as that is where I stayed on my trip over there. Went to the outer territories and there was a Amish community there which stunned me but that is the part I enjoyed the most of the trip was the wide open spaces there.
. It was my first time flying internationally and it frightened the beegeebers out of me. Cowloon has not changed much since I was there as that is where I stayed on my trip over there. Went to the outer territories and there was a Amish community there which stunned me but that is the part I enjoyed the most of the trip was the wide open spaces there.
@Justin76 Oh your pictures bought back memories and I flew into Hong Kong through the old airport and I remember praying on the landing, your wife is so right about seeing people shaving too
Yep,
Those planes used to drop right out of the sky when they landed.
Ill tru and find some pictures of the old airport and Cathay planes landing.
The New territories countryside is beautiful, but unfortunately it has been getting more and more dirty and polluted. People just toss their trash anywhere they want now.
Blame it on the Mainland Chinese but its the ones from HK that are the major problems with this place.
@Justin76 that is such a shame that the new territories are being so polluted . The Peak platform was just being built/finshed when I was over there or being renovated ?, either way it was a beautiful view from there. I was practically mobbed in the markets over there as I had strawberry blonde hair and they kept touching my hair all the time because it was so different to what they were used to in their culture.
. The Peak platform was just being built/finshed when I was over there or being renovated ?, either way it was a beautiful view from there. I was practically mobbed in the markets over there as I had strawberry blonde hair and they kept touching my hair all the time because it was so different to what they were used to in their culture.
Now....trash pit like the rest of this place
I need to make a sign like that for cousin's new neighbors.
I have been to Hong Kong twice.
Great Liberty port but there is no way I would live there.
Thanks for the pictures.
Great Liberty port but there is no way I would live there.
Thanks for the pictures.
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What brought you to Hong Kong?
That looks like an elephant and no, I am not on drugs.
I would Gladly take your place when you leave.
Looks like an elephant to me too.
Photoshop?
I would think I would have heard about that if it was real.
bradford pear starting to bloom this morning. It has never had fruit, threatened to cut it down. The plum at the edge of the yard is starting to bloom too. Some years it has great fruit.
I have Bradford Pear trees and Plum trees,
Neither are blooming yet.
Last year they both bloomed in Feb , I think, then we had an extreme cold snap....
well you know what a tree looks like loaded with black blossoms.
Jim
Neither are blooming yet.
Last year they both bloomed in Feb , I think, then we had an extreme cold snap....
well you know what a tree looks like loaded with black blossoms.
Jim
I was 10 years into the Navy, 2years away from my re-up or get out. Met my wife on a port visit.
She was singing in a jazz club on Halloween night....
We flew back and forth between port visits to different countries and homeport in Japan for two years.
Hit my end of contract and decided to get out at 12 years and move here. Start over at 30 instead of 40ish.
No regrets, was really tough the first 5 years. But here we are 12 years into a great marriage, a 5year old and 2 stinky old dogs.
This place is great to visit, maybe live for a few years. Being single and living here could be fun. Expensive but fun.
But its no place to raise a family.
Its all about money money money, status, IPhones and more stuff.
Hong Kong was great when the British had it.
Now...its different.
There is good and bad about here, but lately the bad outweighs the good.
Food is cheap, fresh veggies and fish, local seafood and meat very affordable. Thousands of restaurants, lots of work for a Chef. (or a banker wanker) We can fly to Vietnam in an hour, Philippines an hour, Thailand, Japan, Taiwan, Russia, 3-6 hour flight.
But its the pollution, crowds upon crowds of ill mannered, rude miserable people, pushing and shoving, always pushing and shoving! Spitting everywhere.
Housing is expensive!!!
For what we paid for our house over here, we could have bought 6 of our houses in Michigan..and thats for one floor of 750sq feet of concrete and a rooftop..
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Jackpot! Who would have known. Your Lives would be a Great Movie. Some of my Friends made it to Hong Kong on Carriers. They said it was better Liberty than "Subic", but not for the same reasons. "What Happens In Subic, Stays In Subic" LOL. I hear the same about "The Main Land" in Beijing and Shanghai, from Ms. Chen(Grew Up in Shanghai, escaped in 83, caught 5 times and sent to rehab, made it out on the 6th attempt), Beijing from Ms PanJin( Language professor at Beijing Aerospace University). Crowded Dirty Rude and Miserable Places, but it keeps drawing me, I don't know why.
Yea not like Manila or Subic, still have that stuff here but not as crazy.
HK was my first port on CV62 in 93 and my last one on LCC 19 in 2005..
Subic closed down right after the volcano blew up along with Clark's. Now its a run down resort and airport.
Get a passport and try to go. Shanghai is an amazing city, crowded and polluted as hell but its totally different than HK. The food is amazing, not greasy fried like HK Cantonese food. Big steamed soup dumplings, pork buns,
The countrside is 100% different than the big cities. People act human out there. The cities are horrid places.
My wifes family all escaped from first the Japanese in Qingdao in the 30's then the commies in Shanghai in the early 50s. An amazing story, her grandfather died a few years ago at 101!!. Wish i talked to him more. He had some things to tell.
HK was my first port on CV62 in 93 and my last one on LCC 19 in 2005..
Subic closed down right after the volcano blew up along with Clark's. Now its a run down resort and airport.
Get a passport and try to go. Shanghai is an amazing city, crowded and polluted as hell but its totally different than HK. The food is amazing, not greasy fried like HK Cantonese food. Big steamed soup dumplings, pork buns,
The countrside is 100% different than the big cities. People act human out there. The cities are horrid places.
My wifes family all escaped from first the Japanese in Qingdao in the 30's then the commies in Shanghai in the early 50s. An amazing story, her grandfather died a few years ago at 101!!. Wish i talked to him more. He had some things to tell.
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This is a reenactment of the making of Sherman's Neckties for The History Channel taking place at Fort McCallister near Savannah Georgia. When General Sherman made his infamous "March to the Sea" after burning Atlanta his troops tore up railroad track and heated them until red hot then bent them around trees to keep the Southern forces from repairing the track and restarting the rail lines. These rail lines were the life blood of the Southern States as Savannah fed the South with rice grown in the fields surrounding Savannah Georgia. Sherman stated he would make "Georgia Howl". He did so by leaving his supply lines behind and raiding and pillaging everything he came across as he burned plantation after plantation in his path. He cut a 60 mile wide swath across Georgia burning, looting plantations, burning bridges, cutting well chains as he made his way from Atlanta to Savannah.
