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- amasiancrasian, on 05/15/2009, -0/+22Hong Kong is my favorite Chinese city. It's literally like a Chinese London, except truly free market, and has very low taxes (income tax is 15% for general populace, 10% for educators), is considered a free port/free trade zone (no incoming tariffs, duties, or excise), banks print their own money (HSBC, Standard Chartered, Bank of China, Hang Seng, HK SAR issue Hong Kong dollars), has English common law systems with a Court of Final Appeal, clean and elegant public infrastructure, automated subway trains that are clean and fast and air-conditioned (take that, New York MTA, as Hong Kong's privatised MTR was awarded the tender to manage London Underground and Stockholm's subway systems), free elections, press, etc. Hell, China doesn't give a damn if you talk crap about it, as long as you don't plan on entering China! It's basically China done right.
The food is seriously the best--where else can you get foie gras sausages without paying French prices for 'em (鵝肝腸)? I love Yung Kee (鏞記) and Luk Yu... and if I want western, well, Hong Kong's got it too!
Hell, if you are a Hong Kong citizen, you have one of the best airports in the world (with decent food too!)... The immigration formalities are fairly quick, and if you're a Hong Kong citizen, you don't even need to see an immigration inspector when returning--you just insert your ID card, scan your biometric prints, and off you go, just as if you were going through a subway channel. - Vhaeos, on 05/13/2009, -3/+1911 different pages for a top 10 list? Ugh.
- pseudononymist, on 05/15/2009, -2/+13Wow, those sure are crazy! I mean Qingdao, a beer festival EVERY YEAR? Let the insanity ensue!
- howheels, on 05/15/2009, -0/+10As having just completed a 4 month tour through Asia, including 30 days through Mainland China, visiting most of the cities on this list ... I don't exactly see what makes them so "omg crrrrrraaaaaaaazzzzzzzzyyyyyyyy!!!!", but it's definitely a list of cities worth visiting.
- SPLASTiK, on 05/15/2009, -0/+10I was in Wuhan (and neighboring Huangshi) a couple weeks ago among a few other cities. Once they get the light rail finished it's going to be a really, really nice city. It was crazy to see so much construction going on in China... every block some new building is being built it seemed.
- digidevil, on 05/15/2009, -3/+13I've never seen anything from askmen that wasn't basically a piece of *****.
- fury420, on 05/15/2009, -1/+10"Replacing farmland with skyscrapers, Shenzhen’s 1980 population was less than 100,000. With over 9 million residents, locals now refer to their city as the richest and most dangerous city in China."
umm... wow - l31101, on 05/15/2009, -0/+9How about some more pictures to show how "crazy" they are. I personally think the title is stupid and meaningless. What makes them "crazy"? Are they "crazy" because they are rapidly growing? Are they "crazy" because they shouldn't grow that fast? WTF! What a epic fail by askmen.
- suntzusputnik, on 05/15/2009, -2/+9the now non-existant Kowloon Walled City. look it up
- amasiancrasian, on 05/15/2009, -0/+7From: http://www.info.gov.hk/info/hkbrief/eng/living3.ht ...
I know I might be biased but I love Hong Kong (full disclosure: born in the US, spent middle school years in Taipei).
Hong Kong's tax system is one of the friendliest in the world. Don't have to worry about paying the slew of taxes we do in the US (e.g, workman's compensation, social security, unemployment)... their salaries tax is not to " exceed 16 per cent of a person's total assessable income after deductions."
"Hong Kong's tax system is one of the most business- friendly in the world — simple and low. Taxes are levied on three types of income only — on profits, salaries and property. There is no value-added or sales tax or capital gains tax. Only income sourced in Hong Kong is taxable."
Businesses are only taxed if they make a profit. And if they do make a profit, the tax rate is "17.5 per cent for corporations and 16 per cent for other businesses."
Their 3G network Hutchinson Three will make AT&T cry. It works ... everywhere. Including in the subway (haha, New York), skyscrapers, you name it. And guess what? You don't have phone contracts. Hong Kong law is that carriers are forbidden from locking a phone to a service. And they have FIOS/fiber optics 40mbps connections everywhere. I bought my iPhone 3G from Hong Kong so that I can use it with any carrier, no questions asked.
Justice system is fair. No death penalty, unlike China. "Hong Kong is a safe city. The overall crime rate is about the same as Singapore's and lower than Tokyo's. "
Maybe we could learn a few things from HK? - d66kid, on 05/15/2009, -0/+6what's so crazy about them
- sgnpkd, on 05/15/2009, -1/+7askmen list= fail
- PandaBearShenyu, on 05/15/2009, -0/+6I won't give them one more page hit than the 1 that they scammed me into.
- cali0923, on 05/15/2009, -0/+6most chinese cities have their own dialect
- yfph, on 05/15/2009, -0/+5Man I miss HK. Most of the food there is pretty cheap. Also, their mass transit system is a sight to behold. Thomas Friedman wrote that he felt like he was entering the world of the Flintstones upon arriving back to La Guardia airport from HK. I cannot say that I disagree with his assessment.
- Garmonbozzia, on 05/15/2009, -2/+7San Francisco?
- PhAndrew, on 05/15/2009, -1/+5beautiful pictures, wish there was more
- inactive, on 05/15/2009, -0/+3Spread diseases like swine flu?
- bighair, on 05/15/2009, -0/+3'No.5 - Tianjin
Population: 8 million'
My hometown is Tianjin, and I have to say this figure '8 million' is totally wrong!!!
And 'crazy' is also an inaccurate word. - aronnyc, on 05/16/2009, -0/+3Interesting article, but I wasn't sure why these were listed as "crazy". Just seemed like a random list of ten Chinese cities.
- inactive, on 05/13/2009, -1/+4Poo in a hat.
- rentmitchum, on 05/15/2009, -0/+3***** the format. Digg needs to boycott pages with formats like this to send a message that it's not acceptable if you want as many viewers as any other site which does it the right way. I could maybe see 2 pages but I'm not going to ever click more than like 4 ever again, and usually if it's not 1 2 or 3, it's ***** 10 and up.
Just say no. - barbapapa78, on 05/15/2009, -0/+3Wikipedia say: 11,760,000
- Halsfield, on 05/15/2009, -0/+3Crazy = Another word for interesting/beautiful?
- jlian, on 05/15/2009, -0/+3Hey I lived in Xiamen for the first 12 years of my life! Beautiful city, friendly people, cheap stuff...
Good place to go, absolutely lovely. - Louieman, on 05/15/2009, -0/+2It's times like these that i just need to remind myself that I don't need to obsess over what someone else who knows nothing of what they are talking about says.
How could you possibly care what this article says about Chinese cities? The writer has obviously never spent more than a day in China, copies and pastes from wikipedia, then uses the first photos spat out of google. There's nothing 'crazy' about these reviews. Who diggs this?
Wow. Just wow. - ryanonfire, on 05/16/2009, -0/+2There, one page, but no pics :( http://www.askmen.com/feeder/askmenRSS_article_pri ...
- taibo, on 05/15/2009, -0/+2The Chinese also shot JFK, caused 9/11 and the Holocaust, and are the reason why hurricanes happen.
Seriously, you conspiracy theorists are a riot. Like Tiananmen square. - nemomarlin, on 05/15/2009, -0/+2They're crazy because they're enormous, more capitalistic than the US, densely populated, massively changing cities.
- drizzlelicious, on 05/15/2009, -2/+4What about Shanghai, that takes 3 hours to drive across? And has its own dialect?
- snogye, on 05/15/2009, -0/+2Um, how about Toronto
- vtbarrera, on 05/14/2009, -0/+2I don't get why your getting dugg down. Askmen has some decent content, but they pull ***** like this to better the bounce rate and beef up their traffic stats. They couldn't do that if they put it all on one page.
- TigerStar337, on 05/15/2009, -1/+3Harbin, Heilongjiang has the beer festival in the summer. Harbin Beer is a popular beer in China. During the festival, the beer is free and they have lots of bands. It is wild fun. :-)
- inactive, on 05/15/2009, -0/+2Left after first page loaded. I'm tired of feeling like I'm getting butfvkced by having to click and wait on page after page to load with very little info. Boycott this ***** by bouncing, please!
Buried - scrugby, on 05/15/2009, -1/+3Plus, if you're a gweilo the police will ignore you... Lan Kwai Fong and Wanchai FTW.
- spoon088, on 05/15/2009, -0/+2HOLY ***** THEY'RE CHINESE THEY MUST BE CRAZY
- BrownieMix, on 05/15/2009, -2/+3DID SOMEBODY SAY CHINESE!? I <3 Chinese ppl. ;D
- rentmitchum, on 05/15/2009, -0/+1I agree. Burying it. People, we need to start boycotting this kind of bad design. We're a community of nerds, largely ones with at least some programming experience. This should disgust all of us, and I say we send a clear message whenever these pop up that it's not acceptable in the year 2009 or going forward unless the content warrants many pages. For lists like this, no more than 2 with 5 on each is acceptable. Clicking bury now and not looking back.
- l31101, on 05/15/2009, -0/+1what pictures? one picture per city? they probably got those off postcards. How about real pictures.
- scrugby, on 05/15/2009, -0/+1Also an extreme dark horse when it comes to the clubbing circuit - Xiamen had some of the most intense clubs i've ever been to. Doesn't hurt that a ton of Nordic students trek to the city each year to learn Putonghua... Xiamen definitely needs to be at the top of this list.
- pxshen, on 05/15/2009, -1/+2seriously! wuhan as china's craziest! lol it's my hometown, a city of 9 million that nobody knows about...
- RatatRatR, on 05/15/2009, -0/+1Where is this decent content?
- barbapapa78, on 05/15/2009, -0/+1The article started by mentioning that the most well known citys was excluded.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -0/+1You ***** people on Digg cry way to damn much, like you dont click 1000 times a day, like 10 more is going to hurt...cry less do more!!!
- TigerStar337, on 05/15/2009, -1/+2I like the Hutongs in Beijing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutong
Micheal Meyer has written a good book about them: http://www.amazon.com/Last-Days-Old-Beijing-Backst ... - Krinkov, on 05/15/2009, -0/+1yes, that definitely is a crazy city in China....
- saggyb, on 05/15/2009, -1/+2Right now Dongtan is nothing but a design with no clear construction timeframe.
- inactive, on 05/18/2009, -0/+0Douche bag.
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