My wife and I have been seriously reviewing our future here and have very recently come to the decision to leave Hong Kong. We are no longer willing to subject ourselves and our children to this offensive, disgusting air that is doing who knows how much damage to us. As soon as I am in a position to do so (hopefully not too soon in this pilot market) we are gone...if it takes much time at all the family will get out and I will follow.
This time of year HK should be enjoying some great blue, crisp and cool days. Instead we wallow in this inpenetrable grey fog of industrial sh!t. I am sick of looking at buildings, hills and a sea horizon lost in the murk. I can't stand descending from flight levels into the sh!tosphere and start smelling it through the aircon.
My wife asked me if I knew,
really knew what it was like here before we came would I have left my old company and moved. Sometimes it is difficult to admit you made a bad choice, but the answer is no, I would never have come here.
She agrees. We knew some people here before we arrived, she laments that no-one quite spelt it out how bad the pollution actually is. To be fair, it is getting worse every year so maybe they would offer different advice now.
I now find myself actively encouraging former colleagues not to come to HK, especially if they have, or a planning to have, children.
For anyone thinking of coming here, ensure your research and due diligence covers the pollution situation in detail. No amount of shiny jets, bigger dollars (well, that's all but gone anyway) or career progression is worth the price.