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68style · 03-26-2022, 07:30 AM

I grew up with lots of first wave HK’ers and after school almost all of them went back to HK even though they grew up here because they wanted to make $$$, some came back later after they made a bunch because HK can is quite a rat race every day but some stayed… but noped the fuck out when China reared it’s ugly head (again).

The thing that bothers me about here (maybe Toronto is less like Vancouver?) is that everyone comes back to “chill” and take it easy. Well, we can’t all take it easy when a house starts at 1.6M can we? There’s no drive here for anything…. In fact my experience in Canada, much like a number of people posting in this thread have done, is that you face intense scrutiny and rejection if you even dare suggest there might be anything elsewhere or that you can do “better”… always this same reaction, a look of disgust and a quick “Really? Why? What makes you so special?” There’s like this real need here to conform to ‘being happy with what you’re given’ because you’re much better off than the rest of the world thing and it drives me nuts here. Say what you went about Americans, country is fucked up in a lot of ways but if you’re from Vancouver and you spend a couple days in any decent sized city down there you very quickly get that same feeling someone from a small town that doesn’t know much must get… and that there’s another gear or 2 to be found if you want to succeed… like a tangible feeling of shit you know what, there are a lot of opportunities if I put the work in. Some urgency? I’m not sure. I guess you get tired of that too at some point but it’s a real eye opener. Not just USA either, any big city… we think of China as being kind of ha-ha third world backwards bad standards etc… take a walk around Shenzhen, Guangzhou, etc one day and tell me again that’s not some next level shit compared to any city here. Nevermind they’ll pull off projects in months that would take 5+ years here and no they don’t all fall down and crush people lol…

I grew up thinking Vancouver was the shit, but as soon as I travelled the world and went to other big cities in the world, I felt extremely unsophisticated. Sometimes unsophisticated is good. Good to grow up in, good to grow old in… not so much the middle part I think… and now the costs have made the grow old part not enjoyable either save for a select few.

03-26-2022, 07:30 AM	#3130
68style Performance Moderator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Richmond Posts: 19,445 Thanked 21,454 Times in 7,317 Posts Failed 333 Times in 222 Posts	I grew up with lots of first wave HK’ers and after school almost all of them went back to HK even though they grew up here because they wanted to make $$$, some came back later after they made a bunch because HK can is quite a rat race every day but some stayed… but noped the fuck out when China reared it’s ugly head (again). The thing that bothers me about here (maybe Toronto is less like Vancouver?) is that everyone comes back to “chill” and take it easy. Well, we can’t all take it easy when a house starts at 1.6M can we? There’s no drive here for anything…. In fact my experience in Canada, much like a number of people posting in this thread have done, is that you face intense scrutiny and rejection if you even dare suggest there might be anything elsewhere or that you can do “better”… always this same reaction, a look of disgust and a quick “Really? Why? What makes you so special?” There’s like this real need here to conform to ‘being happy with what you’re given’ because you’re much better off than the rest of the world thing and it drives me nuts here. Say what you went about Americans, country is fucked up in a lot of ways but if you’re from Vancouver and you spend a couple days in any decent sized city down there you very quickly get that same feeling someone from a small town that doesn’t know much must get… and that there’s another gear or 2 to be found if you want to succeed… like a tangible feeling of shit you know what, there are a lot of opportunities if I put the work in. Some urgency? I’m not sure. I guess you get tired of that too at some point but it’s a real eye opener. Not just USA either, any big city… we think of China as being kind of ha-ha third world backwards bad standards etc… take a walk around Shenzhen, Guangzhou, etc one day and tell me again that’s not some next level shit compared to any city here. Nevermind they’ll pull off projects in months that would take 5+ years here and no they don’t all fall down and crush people lol… I grew up thinking Vancouver was the shit, but as soon as I travelled the world and went to other big cities in the world, I felt extremely unsophisticated. Sometimes unsophisticated is good. Good to grow up in, good to grow old in… not so much the middle part I think… and now the costs have made the grow old part not enjoyable either save for a select few.