After being gone for 2 years, it is strange how everything still feels so familiar here. There are several new buildings and such but for the most part everything is pretty much the same. We past two of my old houses and they were exactly the same but just older.
This city is heavily populated. There's constant dodging of people when walking on the street. Concrete dominates the ground, signs (advertisement, street signs) dominate the sky, people dominate the sidewalks and public transportation and luxury cars dominate the roads. There is simply no space. Houses (condos here) are so extremely over priced. The cost of one square foot in an average complex (with current housing price)is about $10,000 HKD which converts to about $1269 USD per square foot. A 1,200 square foot complex is priced at about $1,522,800 USD. Phew!! Talk about high demand (correlated with overpopulation of course).
The city is covered with concrete but green mountains take over the landscape background. Hong Kong receives a good amount of water from rain and the humidity so plant life grows easily here (unlike Southern Californis). Any area that is not paved (mediuns of the streets and certain parts of the side walks) is thriving with plant life. If the city didn't exist, this place would be a giant green mass covered by photosynethetic life forms as primary producers.
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