I have a friend who works in one of the bigger banks in America, he transferred over to Japan "to try" and he made a few extra bucks. He was sick of it and then tried HK, he fell in love for he is a Cantonese ABC, speaks the language and (in his words) "finally found his place" Tripled his salary within 4 years, started making contacts in China, 10Xs his salary now. Bought a flat for roughly 30 million HKD in one of the nicer areas and married a local girl. Fate has been nice to him. But he's a rarity. I have a few more friends who travel to HK for work. 3 months a year, some for 1 week, and I also know a white guy who has a 3 year contract to work in HK via a US company paying him US rates and healthcare but he can't see his Chinese wife here in NY for months at a time.
IMHO, good jobs are few, opportunities are even less but dreams of living there are tremendous! LOL, including me. | |
