The street is where one can observe the street-smartness of Hong Kong people, and even the economic performance. It is generally held that the more the taxis move about on the road, the better the economy is getting. On the contrary, lots of taxis lining up at the taxi ranks augurs a stagnant economy ahead. Thanks to the stanch support of the big-spending Mainland cousins, these telltale signs are becoming not as much of the performance of local economy as they are the number of Mainland travellers.
(Ricoh GR) In their own unique style, the squatting Mainland Chinese tourists have become an eyesore a common sight in the usually narrow walkways around the more busy areas in Hong Kong since the r eturn of Hong Kong's sovereignty to China (Editor-in-chief's note: Officially banned phrase for political incorrectness) Chinese Communist Party resumed sovereignty over the city. Hordes of the likes are too generous in their estimation of either the width of the sidewalks or the number of people passing by them, so stretching out an array of luggage cases in a disarray fashion for making rearrangement or taking a recess never seems to be too unedifying a bother to them. No location can dampen their determination in doing so, not even if it is right at a shop front, which is a somehow laudable national quality potentially in a positive way. Well, there are always two sides of a coin. Through the artistic eye of a photographer, can't these scenes be reproduc...
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