First, working in Hong Kong 10 hours a day, 9.0 am to work (I was 20 minutes early to the company to eat breakfast) 12:00 noon on time to open the lunch (three dishes, rice to eat casually) after the meal there are fruits to eat, such as: oranges, apples, bananas. Breakfast at 5:00 p.m. and work until 7:00 p.m. to close.
4:00 pm to 5:00 pm can also rest for an hour, because this time to do the things are done, the work time is rapid point, the middle can rest a bell.
I was in the back of the kitchen washing dishes, sometimes their own things done to the floor to help the guests to play rice, I came to Hong Kong's first job is this.
Three years without jumping ship, I feel good about myself, my colleagues are getting along better, maybe I'm already used to this way, other places have friends let me go over, the treatment is a little higher than ours, but I have no intention of jumping ship.
Because this in Hong Kong is considered a big name in the company, under the banner of more than 80 stores, every quarter have bonuses, labor leave are paid holidays, out of food every month on the 7th, to do a full year there are 8 days of vacation (if you don't want to take a break during the big holiday, you can go out to earn some extra money)
The second aspect of life
Our family is the husband applied for public housing, although the area is not big, but the sparrow is small. The area is not large, but the sparrow is small and complete, if the room inside the door ah or window ah what things are damaged just a phone call, the property help free of charge to deal with.
My husband picked a long time to pick the right neighborhood to live in, our neighborhood was built in 2019, new buildings, new facilities, downstairs restaurants, supermarkets, clinics, food markets and so on.
Every weekend my husband took me to a teahouse to drink tea, chatting feeling is still good, we live in Hong Kong although there is no great wealth, but contentment is always happy, friends say?
Third, because I am a northern person speaking accent is always the third voice mostly, to Hong Kong, my husband and I want to learn Mandarin, so his Mandarin now speak very well, I still do not know Cantonese.
For this reason, I have suffered a lot at work, because my Hong Kong colleagues are all Cantonese speakers, and most of my post-60s sisters don't speak Mandarin, and some don't even understand it.
I am now learning to speak Cantonese online with a teacher and hope to break through the Cantonese barrier by the end of this year ......
Brothers and sisters! Do you think I will be able to learn Cantonese this year? I'm not sure I'm going to be able to do that!
Hong Kong is one of the cities with the highest cost of living in the world, where the greatest pressure should be the price of housing, Hong Kong's housing prices are one of the highest in the world Hong Kong's houses are expensive and small, Hong Kong housing prices are calculated in feet, 10.8 feet is equal to a square meter. Which is roughly divided into 3 price levels! ~ Hong Kong Island is generally the highest price, generally about 2w a foot. The Peak District can be the most expensive 6-8W Kowloon prices are generally about 1w mainly. New Territories closer to the urban section of the foot price of 6000-8000 or even more than 1W.
Second, the price of food in Hong Kong, generally more than 1.5 times the mainland first-tier cities, other cities 3-5 times.
Third, the price of transportation in Hong Kong: buses are charged in sections, the price of 2 yuan to start, generally ranging from 2-40 yuan, the subway is priced in sections, the most expensive Lo Wu line the whole 70 yuan.
The fourth talk about social security in Hong Kong, one called CSSA, similar to the mainland's low income insurance. The government allocates funds to provide appropriate assistance to residents whose standard of living is below a certain level of household income, so that they can maintain a minimum standard of living. The assistance is terminated when the household income of these residents reaches a certain level or when they have other resources to support their basic living.
Second, special allowances, such as those commonly known as the fruit grant. These are subsidized by the government, and include the elderly, the sick, the disabled, children, widows and orphans, etc., who receive a limited allowance to meet their living needs. These special allowances include the Old Age Allowance, the Disability Allowance, the Violence and Law Enforcement Injuries Compensation Scheme, and the Traffic Accident Victims Assistance Scheme.
Third, employer liability. Third, employer's liability, which is the responsibility of the government by statute to ensure that employees are financially compensated for certain accidents that occur during the course of their employment.
Fourth, MPF. It is a form of social security to which both employers and employees*** contribute. The MPF is handled by the relevant organizations and the principal and interest of the deposits are recovered when the employee retires or meets the conditions for withdrawal, so as to protect the livelihood of the elderly. Although social security in Hong Kong has achieved certain results and there are quite a number of good experiences and practices, there are still quite a number of limitations, the biggest of which is that a community-wide retirement system has yet to be formed and it cannot solve the problem of providing for the old age of the majority of workers. That is why Hong Kong people in their seventies and eighties still have to work.
Fifth, Hong Kong is a duty-free free port where all kinds of goods are at least 10% lower than in the Mainland.
Finally, let's look at the income of Hong Kong people:
According to the latest statistics from the Hong Kong government in 2017:
1, the median income of Hong Kong people is 15,000 yuan, that is, if you earn 15,000 yuan a month, your income is already more than half of the people in Hong Kong.
2. If you earn $30,000 or more per month, you are already earning more than 20% of the highest income earners in Hong Kong.
3. If you earn $40,000 or more per month on a household basis, you are already in the top 30% of income earners in Hong Kong;
4. However, to really be in the top 10% of income earners in Hong Kong, you need to earn more than a million dollars per year.
The details are as follows:
According to the latest figures from the Census and Statistics Department, excluding foreign domestic helpers, there are now more than 3,419,000 wage earners in Hong Kong, with 891,000 of them earning between $10,000 and $14,900 a month, and those earning less than $15,000 a month make up more than 44% of the total working population.
The average starting monthly salary of the eight graduates in 2015 was between $13,400 and $21,900, and the figures include professions such as medicine and teaching, which means that the majority of university graduates' monthly income from their first job has been ranked in the middle of all Hong Kong wage earners.
On the other hand, there are more than 231,000 people earning more than $60,000 per month in Hong Kong, which is the highest 6.8% of the total monthly income in Hong Kong;
there are also 248,000 people earning $40,000 to $59,900 per month, which is the top 14% of the total number of wage earners in Hong Kong.
If we look at households, the latest figures from the Census and Statistics Department show that in order to be in the top 10% of households in Hong Kong, you need to earn a monthly income of $80,000 or more, which is equivalent to an annual income of over a million dollars, and there are 160,000 households in Hong Kong earning more than a million dollars a year.
A monthly household income of $40,000 or more, or $20,000 per month for a couple, is already the highest 30% in Hong Kong.
On the contrary, more than half of the households in Hong Kong are earning less than $24,900, of which 277,000 households are earning less than $6,000 per month, accounting for 11.1% of the total.
Hong Kong people work at a fast pace and have to work really hard, unlike some organizations and companies in the Mainland where there is a lot of work and bloat, and some people are indiscriminately employed and muddle through. The general wage in Hong Kong is about three times the general wage in the first-tier cities in the Mainland, and about five times the general wage in the second and third-tier cities; the cost of living is a little higher than the Mainland, but the quality of goods is a few knots higher than that in the Mainland, enjoying high-quality and high-standard goods, enjoying safe food, otherwise why would so many mainlanders come to Hong Kong to buy powdered milk, buy medicine? Of course, the cost of living is very high, but the government public housing allocation instead of making the family accommodation costs much lower than the north, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, of course, the area is not very large, is allocated according to the proportion of the population, but their own home, although it is not very spacious, live up to a very comfortable and cozy, in fact, many Hong Kong people bought a house in Shenzhen, Guangzhou, and even do the whole building but still prefer to live in Hong Kong in a small room; medical care, technical equipment, world-class, do not have to pay medical insurance free of charge to the whole community. The medical aspect, the technical equipment is world-class, no need to pay medical insurance is free for all. To see a clinic, make an appointment by phone and pay 50 yuan for the registration fee, no matter what kind of disease you see how many medicines are free of charge. To see the emergency 180 yuan registration fee, according to the severity of the condition of the classification of waiting, no matter what medication what surgery are free, so Hong Kong's per capita life expectancy is the world's first; children study tuition-free, you can apply for exemption of books and lunch fees, simple and convenient to apply for free; the elderly after the age of 65 can get fruit grant and according to the need to apply for Comprehensive Social Security Assistance, there is an application for 100 percent of the access to the old people even if they do not work and have no savings. Therefore, even if the elderly do not work and have no savings, they still have no worries about food and clothing, and they still have the money to join the elderly group to travel to the mainland, and there are also popular singers who perform with the group. Some elderly people do not want to serve the old and want to get a higher income even if they are old, there are also a lot of job opportunities, you can also participate in the work to increase their income, unlike our mainland only more than 50 years were retired "enjoy the blessings", not from some of the work units retired from the ordinary elderly people a month can only get two to three hundred dollars in pensions, especially in rural areas, if there is no elderly people, if there is no child support, can only live in the ancestral home of the old people. Especially the rural elderly, if there is no support from their children, they can only live in their ancestral homes, farm, collect rags, and find their own herbal remedies to cure their illnesses. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have to live in poverty and illness for the rest of their lives. If you do not believe in this, please leave the developed coastal cities of the north, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen and go to the hinterland to take a look at their lives and you will have a deep feeling about it, and I believe many readers are very clear about this point. In order to make the finances of Hong Kong more healthy and sustainable in the long run, the administrators of Hong Kong can effectively maintain this kind of protection-cum-welfare, unlike the pure welfare societies in Northern Europe. Healthy, efficient, high-quality, orderly and secure (of course, even in a sunny place, there are inevitably dark and dishonorable corners), this is the working life of ordinary Hong Kong people. Although the narrative is as simple as a running account, it is honest, accurate and factual.
What is the work and life of Hong Kong people like? Hong Kong people are very dedicated, but also very homesick, would rather squeeze in 10 square meters of the hut, but also do not want to leave Hong Kong. Once watched a Hong Kong program, the host hopes to come to the mainland to buy a house and property, immediately another person back: you can not mix in their own place, in other people's place is even more not your position! This is also a very realistic problem, relatives and friends, contacts all in Hong Kong, to the mainland to start again is not realistic. Like we are not willing to leave our hometown, Hong Kong locals are certainly not willing to leave, the local right of abode, enjoy the social welfare, children's offspring to enjoy education and so on are all related to everything is inseparable.
Furthermore, Hong Kong's special historical background, gradually become one of the economic and trade centers of the four dragons of Asia in the year, so strong base, I believe that the charm of the city is certainly not as superficial as we see these tourists. Otherwise, how come so many people still want to go to Hong Kong? Just like the north of Guangzhou and Shenzhen, every year, not still so many people crowded to go there.
Hong Kong is a developed city in the world, one of the most concentrated places of human wealth, huge foreign exchange reserves and amazing overseas assets kill most countries! Hong Kong businessmen invested in factories throughout the Pearl River Delta, has a strong manufacturing industry, Hong Kong has a very good welfare system and passport to pass through the world, prosperity and stability, truly the Pearl of the Orient, the world's financial center, the city of various countries to learn the model ......
Regardless of how many high-rise buildings you build, the humanities quality and social welfare is people The fundamental to enter the city, a rich and powerful pile of people overlooking the cold city, so that the arrival of people full of cold, no vitality and hope. Whether it is a city of technology or a city of the future, it is only right to let people walk among the concrete and look up with confidence. Hong Kong is just such a city!
Hong Kong people work, live what? Hong Kong people genuinely let people respect, I have worked in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong people **** thing, they do things seriously, good learning, treat people warmly and courteous, positive and optimistic! There is a sense of heavenly benevolence! As for many Hong Kong people would rather squeeze in 10 square meters of the hut, but also do not want to leave Hong Kong, I can only say that this understanding is very superficial, do not understand the Hong Kong society's welfare, education, infrastructure support, etc., according to this concept, in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, living in the building, but also as good as my fifth-tier cities, back to the countryside to build a five-story building how good! Can you compare it like this? On education, Peking University, Tsinghua University, Hong Kong University ranked high, on welfare, domestic than Hong Kong high, according to the degree of internationalization, the domestic cities have compared to it?
Do you have any objections to the above?
Unemployment is very low, but prices are high
Hong Kong people work, just started with Hong Kong colleagues to do things together, Hong Kong warm and friendly and generous, but occasionally will be a bull's-eye, there is a mouth of entertainment and gossip, do things diligently, will not think of the trouble to you, you do not want to give him trouble, to work to go to work, after work is the private time, generally do things in advance to say hello, the human flavor is light, if true locals are so, do not think that you will be able to do it, but you can't do it. If the real locals are so, do not like big tea and rice, most of the AA payment. If the road is in trouble, most will meet the initiative to come forward to help, there is also a very important time, often not enough to feel, some people say Hong Kong people poor busy, but for those who do not have a choice this is a very good opportunity.
My two relatives are in Hong Kong, one is my mother's sister's daughter, because it is married to that husband has a small old building, so the birth of a child is at home with the child, a cousin married to a British man in Hong Kong bank work, so there is no need to go to work, the family to do Mrs. Chanting and worshiping the Buddha, and have time to accompany her husband to play golf, which is always done to release the work of the things I have said that this is the thing that she does a year! The first two or three times will be enough volume.
As an old Hong Kong immigrant, I think this issue I decided to have the right to say
Hong Kong people work really seriously, carefully, and take the initiative. In any industry, people will know that they have to be worthy of their bosses if they are getting paid. In the past, Andy Lau made an advertisement is to tell people to do their duty in their own position and to have a good attitude. Another reason here is that the management system is more sound, and we have a division of labor and accountability, so overall Hong Kong people have a good work ethic.
What is life like? An old Cantonese saying that the same rice raises a hundred kinds of people, but I think most of the people around me are still comfortable, food, clothing, housing and transportation, in addition to living is more difficult, the other are very good. Food is especially good! , the food court has abundant supplies at moderate prices, just about anything you can think of can be found. Supermarkets are even better, with all kinds of supplies from all over the world, respectively just how much money you have in your own pocket and what you can afford. Restaurants are also all-inclusive, with different levels to choose from.
Overall, it is still very comfortable in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is a shopper's paradise, but the lives of the people behind the shopper's paradise are as varied as they are bright and shiny.
As one of the four little dragons of Asia, Hong Kong is also an international financial and trade center, with a very large potential for development.
But there are different levels of people in Hong Kong.
There are those who live in mansions in the Mid-Levels, and there are those who live in small rented houses with several members of their families.
There are tycoons, senior financial elites and white-collar workers, as well as those who work at the grassroots level to make ends meet.
In Hong Kong, there are rich people who are so rich that they leak oil, and there are poor people who are so poor that they have no money to eat.
Hong Kong is also a place where the rich and powerful live, of which we know very famous is Li Ka-shing, Li Shau-kee, Kwok Tak-sing, Cheng Yu-tung, and so on, Hong Kong's four big families.
The four families can be said to control a lot of Hong Kong's economy in many industries.
As long as you live and work in Hong Kong, you basically can't get away from Li Ka-shing.
For example, Hong Kong's Watson's, ParknShop, living electricity, housing and many others have Li Ka-shing's shadow.
Many people are working for the four major families in Hong Kong, clothing, food, housing and transportation are inseparable from the four major families.
Like Li Ka-shing, these magnates, then their lives must be very good, in and out of bodyguards, living in Hong Kong's semi-mountainous areas of the kind of mansions.
The life of the rich is also very extravagant, moving to organize children's birthday party, full moon wine, children 100 days, grand wedding, daily celebrity party.
What I can think of, like in 2006, when Tsui Chi-kei married Lee Ka-shing, the son of Lee Shau-kee, was a sensational wedding that many people dare not imagine.
More than 1 million wedding dress, 300 million private jet, diamond ring 20 million, 500,000 airlift bouquet. The entire wedding cost in hundreds of millions of dollars.
Xu Ziqi also got the name of 100 billion daughter-in-law.
The Hong Kong side of the magnates married are very grand.
Gambler's daughter Pansy Ho, the wedding of the century in 1991, to know that time a lot is not rich, but that wedding is in the sensation. Millions of wedding dresses, more than a hundred million dowry, wedding banquet were held a few days and nights, extremely luxurious.
Generally rich people of a wedding money, ordinary people spend a lifetime can not earn.
In addition to the high-level mansion, then there is a kind of is more top white-collar, elite these classes.
For example, Hong Kong's financial and trading industries are very well developed, and there are many people engaged in securities, banking, and investment banking.
So these people must be earning millions of dollars a year.
For example, I used to have some colleagues around me who were financial directors of companies, and they could earn millions of dollars a year.
Then for the annual salary of millions of dollars in Hong Kong is actually not much, not less, but for many people in Hong Kong at the bottom has been considered very good.
If he is more frugal, and the family's expenses are relatively small, Hong Kong's housing prices of more than 200,000 a flat, if 100 square feet is 20 million.
If a senior white-collar worker earns $2 million a year, then the senior white-collar worker will have to work for more than 10 years before he has a chance to buy a house with full payment.
Or they can work for a few years and afford to buy a house.
But there are some people who can't afford to buy a house even if they are senior white-collar workers, because there are some people who have higher self-esteem and higher consumption, so it's more difficult to buy a house.
Hong Kong white-collar workers his life is also relatively heartbreaking, the surface is bright and shiny, every day suit leather shoes.
But many white-collar workers in the high-pressure state of work, do not think that white-collar workers must be relaxed sitting in the office, he enjoys the air conditioning, in fact, white-collar workers also have his own heartbreaking pain and suffering.
White-collar workers are overly competitive, afraid of being laid off, but also to constantly improve their abilities and so on in all aspects.
In Hong Kong, apart from these high-level white-collar workers and some tycoons, many of them are actually ordinary people living at the grassroots level.
Some of them are working in supermarkets as salespeople, or as warehousemen, or as cleaners, or as administrative clerks.
Anyway, every position, in fact, the average salary is about 10,000 to 20,000 yuan.
In fact, in Hong Kong, 10,000 to 20,000 yuan is not much, because it costs more than 6,000 yuan to rent a small room there.
The most profound is the Hong Kong some time ago, Hong Kong side of the prices are really soaring, too much.
The general public with a salary of about 10,000, the burden of rent, perhaps a family snail in a small space.
You can also see on the Internet that many mainland girls who married in Hong Kong are also living in tiny spaces.
The standard of living in Hong Kong is very high, and there are some people who would rather live at a snail's pace in a hut of a few tens of square meters than leave Hong Kong, because Hong Kong can be said to be their own birthplace, their roots.
Already living and rooted on the Hong Kong side, it would be a bit uncomfortable to live somewhere else.
It's as if our side of the ordinary white-collar workers, Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen side of the standard of living is also very high it.
Why some young people are always to these big cities to take root, not willing to leave, still in the city to fight, in fact, he reason is the same.
Because the health insurance subsidy system over there in Hong Kong is relatively more complete and better, and Hong Kong people originally had a kind of what we call a sense of superiority in it.
Then if Hong Kong people come to live here, and everything has to be struggled again, start over, it is better to stay in Hong Kong, and Hong Kong's side of the financial, trade is more prosperous, can provide a variety of jobs, welfare benefits are also relatively good.
Hong Kong people give me the impression that there is a certain degree of compulsion at work, and that they are more conscientious and careful.
For example, I used to have a superior leader is this kind of person, the work is very serious and careful, in the work of this purpose, can not rest at noon, that is, this kind of toughness is very strong, and the Hong Kong people very much emphasize the concept of time and work efficiency.
Previously, I followed the Hong Kong **** thing, can also find some of their better some of the advantages, in the work of the more persistent spirit is also worth me to learn.
The general public in Hong Kong will feel that they are superior, a little cold, then perhaps I think there may be cultural differences.
For example, the language, or some of the living habits are different, these and so on will cause curiosity.
We may also feel that Hong Kong people are more mysterious, but in fact, Hong Kong people are ordinary people, there is nothing high and mighty, we are all equal.
There is no need for us to imagine them as superior, we are all ordinary people.