Clearly struck a nerve there.
The argument has always been that an Expat gets expat allowances because they must be enticed to live away from their base area.
If you joined directly on a base then you are most likely to be a DEFO and thus have opened up a whole new can of worms. If you are a DEFO who joined on a base I believe that is where you should stay unless the company requires you to be in Hong Kong.
If flexibility to change bases was a reason for joining CX then I can see that this may be an issue but its not fair to CEP's that do not get a housing allowance wherever they are based simply becuase you want to change yours at the drop of a hat.
Sometimes decisions must be made and the consequences that are rendered must be accepted.
I don't believe CEP's should get housing in Hong Kong, but if they choose to take a base outside of Hong Kong then they should get a housing allowance wherever they choose to base themselves. Do we think this is fair?
