"You can find a decent place on Lantau island for relatively cheap."
Mate have you actually live in HK before...why would you come up with a place like lantau which is like the worse place to live in terms of links and access to other part of hk.
"deserve to live like a king as soon as they step onto the line"
i think people are just letting them know what they are getting themselves into, its okay for local like me becoz im use to it but for people in da us, auz use to living in big apartment then changing to living in a shoebox is a totally diff scenario
think about this in 10 yrs time they will need to raise a family etc