Like on the signs shown below from the past, and some more recent ones saying "No Poles":
Britain is quite small, so if a good proportion of those Hong Kong people who are eligible for resettlement in Britain take up the offer, that sudden influx of work-seekers will swamp the jobs available.
https://miro.medium.com/max/633/1*nzLs1GoUFhR05vBwI3bwdQ.png
https://keepcalms.com/p/no-irish-no-blacks-no-romanians/
https://images.ctfassets.net/pjshm78m9jt4/403874_9/545657cf7...
Between covid and Brexit the UK's population has taken a serious dive and it won't be easy anymore for EU citizens to move to the UK (There are already shortages because of that).
But we also need to see how many people actually take up this offer...
Hong Kong > UK
Belarus > Lithuania[0]
[0] https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1206694/lithuania-r...
Do you have any numbers regarding actual emigration numbers? I can't seem to find anything recent.
In terms of political and cultural history Singapore is much more like Hong Kong. But it's 2020, not 1990; times have changed. I'd like to see real numbers.
It’s subjective but I personally find UK’s cold wet weather much more tolerable than HK’s moist and hot summers and winters actually feel colder in HK.
HK’s public medical system is no better than the NHS.
As for standard of living , you are joking, right?
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_countries_resu...
It would probably be fairer to compare Hongkong with London because the UK is obviously a large country (compared to HK, essentially a single city).
The UK has some nice places but also many ghastly ones (it has both the wealthiest and most deprived areas in Western Europe). London is different from the rest of the country in about all aspects.
But my personal opinion is that having lived in the UK, I never saw a people living so poorly, yet thinking they're rich.
As a Hongkonger myself, I'd say culturally we are more like Taiwan than Singapore. We don't really see culture influences from Singapore here. I'm not sure if they export any at all. In contrast, we enjoy Taiwan pop songs, TV shows, and movies a lot. And Hong Kong-Taipei has long been one of the world's busiest plane routes[0].
Taiwan's economy is growing, but Singapore definitely benefits most from Hong Kong's downfall. MNCs have already started migrating Asia HQ to Singapore. So I suspect ambitious young professionals, who wish to stay in Asia, will follow the flow of capital and opportunities to Singapore, whereas others will choose Taiwan.
This quote is definitely better for describing people in HK who live in their 30m^2 apartment that cost USD$700000 than those in UK.
