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**AqD** · March 04, 2019, 05:49 AM

Originally Posted by Bo1Bo1Sha3

You didn't mention its name, you don't wish to call it by what it is? I won't press further, there must be a good reason.

Oh I lived in New Taipei City. But it's the same everywhere in Taiwan. Except less crowded and hotter in the south.

Originally Posted by Condottiere 40K

Local Hong Kong government controls land use and the release of new areas for development, as I recall, ensuring that prices remain high, and that system is a holdover from the colonial period, though now it's possible that Mainland magnates with Politburo connections are now acquiring a piece of the pie.

I can understand private owners' reason for that. But the government?!

**Condottiere 40K** · March 04, 2019, 02:52 PM

As I understand it, the colonial government and the Hong Kong elite understood how to keep each other happy, one way was to maintain real estate values.

**Lord Baal** · April 10, 2019, 12:50 PM

After being wake up by the sound of what seemed was a intruder trying to break in, yesternight the wife and I had a talk. Under siege by mosquitoes in a pitch black room and a vaporous heat we whispered not to wake up Pedro. We are leaving, papers or not, we are leaving. I'll said it a hundred times, I'll be here until the day I can't. The Colombian consulate here close down it's doors and left the town (and probably the country) so we couldn't get pete passport.

We haven't figured out where to go, but we are leaving. The two options are either Colombia or Chile. I would love Canada but that would require so much money is mind boggling for us right now, also she doesn't talk either english or french so... also it's the fact we both have plenty of family and friends in Chile which might lend us a couch a few nights.

We'll sell everything we haven't already and gather the money, the only way to do it is thought land, it's a roughly seven day bus ride once we are in the border with Colombia. By land it like 300$ each, by air it would be at least double that and pete never got his passport so I think he can't travel by air.

Anyway, the days that follow will be beyond hectic and it probably take us months to gather everything but we are done. I feel like betraying my country, but I'm done.

**Sar1n** · April 13, 2019, 11:09 AM

Manflu. You guys know what I mean...feels like my nose became a conduit to fluidic space, I have a headache reaching down to my face, and generally feeling like I'm dying.

**AqD** · April 16, 2019, 01:59 PM

Good luck Baal! Don't feel bad. Any patriotism you might feel is just Stockholm syndrome.

I lost another glove today! Two from different pairs this week! What's wrong with me??