<p>"Coming back"? Are you half Japanese? Why did you live there before? You have friends/family there?</p>
<p>About HK:</p>
<p>Crowded, busy, dirty, full of pollution, millions of loud Cantonese speakers talking in their freaky language?</p>
<p>Sounds like SF.</p>
<p>Sign me up. Now if only I had actually learned how to speak that horrific language from my girlfriend's family instead of taking Mandarin and Japanese...sigh.</p>
<p>I'm not even 1/100th Japanese. I studied here as a college student, that's all. </p>
<p>I do have friends here though. Too bad they all live in Tokyo, and I live in...definitely NOT Tokyo.</p>
<p>What horrific language, persian, arabic? Its mean to call a language horrific dude. Well, all the ads and such show Hong Kong in such a positive light, but they are ads after all.........</p>
<p>True, but its a very prosperous place, after all. Highest Rolls/capita in any city, from what I hear..Also, you have a great deal of economic freedom, and low flat tax.</p>
<p>Cantonese, as in what they speak in Hong Kong. Yeah, it's "mean" to call it horrific, but have you actually lived with Cantos? It's loud, squaky, and really hard to learn. Mandarin is much prettier.</p>
<p>U only need to go to Queens/Jackson Heights in NYC to experience downtown Beijing first hand.</p>
<p>w1cked,</p>
<p>Who cares about having a million Rolls if the roads are narrow and miserable?</p>
<p>'Sides, just wait until the PRC goes whacko one year and effs it all up.</p>
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<p>Or just go to Monterey Park in LA if you want little Hong Kong.</p>
<p>Mandarin I can handle, since I actually know some. Cantonese...let's put it this way. After 7 years with my Canto-American girlfriend, I still don't know my way out of a box in Cantonese.</p>
<p>Dang, I gotta read up on this, are Cantonese and Mandarin different versions of the Chinese language or what? I'd better go on wikipedia right now and research.....</p>
<p>They're distinct dialects within the Chinese language.</p>