If a well-educated HKer fail to succeed in this gruelling metropolis, there is no way out. We all know the complex and domineering nitty-gritty of the financial city. You have to be very realistic about your dream, lifestyle and career. Unlike Londoners or New Yorkers, you are not expected to move out, say other cities in the north or inland. Let's face it. What would/could you do if you fail to succeed in HK? Is going somewhere else a realistic choice? Say the mainland China?
HK is packed with people, specially well-educated people. This is definitely a plus to any big cities. But if these people are restrained (or retarded) to live and work in this small market (city and market is two different concepts), competing mechanism would fail and the reward, i.e. salary and lifestyle, they deserve would be far lower than one would have ever expected.
As overpopulated as in HK, well-educated people live without dignity. Middle working-class people spend most of the time in their youth in the office and are compensated by sound reward while paying petty money on sucking rubbish food made out of poor quality from the north and very cheap labour every day without shame. Their tastes are not unlike any lower working-class people or from where they were born and bred. They take advantage of cheap immigrant labour and compete with lower working-class for twisted taste constructed by themselves by adding a sense of nostalgia.
