I don't see a contradiction between your decisions and my comments. I know you don't want to belittle those who did not leave (yet), but maybe you see the situation too much from your own perspective. There are many people in HK who suffer and would want to leave but simply can't do so. People have different responsibilities, maybe a local wife, debt, the wrong passport, kids who are about to graduate in a school they like, a sick local mother-in-law, no command hours and maybe another year to get one in Cathay etc etc. To tell these individuals how better life is elsewhere, which is not exactly a state secret in the first place, or how stupid / masochistic/ blind/ obedient they are because they stay is not very helpful.