But what could possibly be the point of a Canadian moving to Hong Kong, unless you have strong family ties or a perverse addiction to industrial smog and confined claustrphobic spaces?
Getting 'experience' so that you can later join AC in Toronto on 39k a year? Why postpone it? For the money? With the new hkpa you will not get ahead, your purchasing power will be substantially less, and your quality of live miserable in comparisons. For a basing? Forget it, the system is frozen and the backlog long. For the love of flying? It's NOT flying, its sandwich eating, movie watching, jet lagging miserable monotony in a system where your only identity is a 6 digit number in a box. MS flight simulator is a more rewarding flying experience then this.
Unless you want to throw away the best years of your life with nothing to show for it but an empty pocket and a logbook of sim-time, stay at home and appreciate the friends, family, charter of rights an quality of live which you're privileged enough to be born with. There is nothing here anymore, everything that once made it worth the sacrifice has been taken away.
Don't be the dumbass showing up at closing time.