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Anonymous
I lived in Japan for a year and traveled to HK for two weeks. Comparing them, HK's skyline is even better than Tokyo and as it is more even more international there's a better range of foreign foods, foreigners living there, and English spoken. About as expensive as Tokyo.
On the downside, HK is nowhere near as clean as Japan (although probably cleaner than the average Western city), the transport doesn't measure up to Japan but is better than most of the West/anywhere in America. HK also too hot/humid for half the year where as Japan is only so for a couple months a year.
The real thing that sets HK apart from Japan is the people and culture. Japanese tend to be a little more low key and polite but that's not really a big deal. What's huge is that if Japanese like you it's probably because they actually like you as person, or maybe they just like foreigners. In HK if someone likes you, especially a girl, it's for your money. Of course this applies to some extent all over the world but no where nearly as much as HK. In my two weeks there every single girl I met that seemed interested in me either directly, or more often indirectly tried to find out how much money I have/go shopping together/some shit. In Japan while walking down the street maybe someone is handing out free tissues with an advertisement on the package. In HK you can't take 5 steps as a foreigner without someone trying to hustle you into their shop. Fuckers would sell their own mother a worthless used car if it would make them a buck.
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