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From: "Schizoid Man"
Date: 5/19/2004 10:20 AM Pacific Standard Time
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"S888Wheel" wrote in message

The smell of sewege for starters. I like the skyline but I didn't find the
landscape to be particularly interesting at all. I was not crazy about the
food
one bit. I wonder if by alive you mean over-populated? It is the most
densely
populated piece of real estate on earth. The only bargains I found were on
high
end film camaras and silk products.I did find a lot of scam operations
though.
Now if I were asked to go back there again for work I would, but I would
not
consider a trip there on my own dime. I will say this for Hong Kong
though, it
was the only place I could make listening comparisons between a Rockport
Sirius
III, a Clear Audio Master Reference and a Forsell Air Reference all with
the
same cartridge. I did enjoy that and found it quite enlightening.

One of the few times that I have to agree with McKelvy. Hong Kong is
phenomenal. The skyline makes Manhattan look like Wichita, Kansas, the neon
lights makes Times Square look like a traffic intersection in Canton, Ohio.
And what you call over-population, I call street life and energy. Even New
York City in unmatched in terms of the sheer vitality of Hong Kong.

What I call over population is overpopulation. It is the reason the smell of
sewege permeates the entire city. The sewege system can't handle the
population. If you like wall to wall people then Hong Kong is a great place. I
thought Soylent Green was a grim vsion of the future not a bright one though. I
can live without those kinds of crowds.

Add to that, a true shoppers paradise, everything from street vendors
selling chimsa to (as you have pointed out) Rockport Sirius dealers, and not
nearly as prohibitively expensive as European cities.

Like I said, I thought the bargains were pretty much limmited to high end
camaras (an interest to me as a Lieca owner) and silk products. The rest was
the same stuff you can get anywhere else for the same price or less.

In terms of food to call Hong Kong outstanding would be a euphemistic
injustice. The range of cuisine available is in the same league as New York,
San Francisco or London.

London perhaps. Both being pretty weak. You can get better food here in L.A.
than you can in Hong Kong. San Fransisco and New York blow Hong Kong away for
food. But really, if food is what you want go to New Orleans or Santa Fe or
Belgium.

A truly wonderful place.

I found it a mixed bag. To each his own.