The Fragrant Harbor.

It is the land of free airport trolleys and exorbitantly expensive real estate. Underground cell phone reception and 400-square-feet apartments for a family of 5.

Thousands of people donated money to earthquake-hit regions in China. Tens of thousands of people left town in the 90s to get passports from every other country you can think of other than China.

Girls under the age of 30 are more educated than their males counterparts and local universities produce more female than male young professionals every year. When sex tapes of local actresses were leaked to the media and promptly published, one of the girls called a press conference immediately. And apologized.

Everyone’s mandarin Chinese is shit. Everyone wrote fluent in Cantonese and Chinese on their resumes.

“Geez I hate it that this place has become so touristy with all these people from China,” a Hong Kong girl turns around to complain to her friend after taking a selfie on her iPhone in the middle of Shibuya.

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