All built when the Brits ran the place.
Come and see the rapid decline I’m living through.
Cops traveling in packs arresting people for not “properly” wearing masks. Construction sites stopped for months because one guy has COVID.
Entire complexes of 5-6 buildings locked down so they can find 9 cases of Covid.
Lan Kwai Fong and SOHO tourist locations just a bunch of vacant storefronts.
Hong Kong is done. And the MTR is a private company btw.
I believe you, but I bet the subways are still nice.
I think a lot of this is Xi. In 2013, when I visited, he had just come into power. His "thing" was supposedly corruption cleanup. At that time, the Social Score was a concept, rather than an overwhelming reality.
Only a few years later, in 2018 or so, I was talking to someone who had toured China, and he said that his guides were so afraid of the government and its cameras, that they would only speak frankly several hundred yard out in a park, where they knew they couldn't be overheard, video'ed, or lip-read. It's only gotten worse.