Thread: Hong Kong Was Better Under the British

Anyone thinking the Legco - Exco form of government under British rule was the more democratic must surely be away with the pixies.

HK's heyday was between the late 60s and early-mid 70s. Great pace and fun, cheap booze, drugs and women, fine hotels and some of the best restaurants in Asia. Had everything, mountains, great beaches and if you fancied an escape to the country you just had to bowl up to the NTs.

In those days, just taking the Star Ferry and surveying the sheer vitality of the place got the pulse quickening.

Nowhere else like it in the world but the frisson has definitely gone now.

Originally Posted by thegent

Anyone thinking the Legco - Exco form of government under British rule was the more democratic must surely be away with the pixies.

HK's heyday was between the late 60s and early-mid 70s. Great pace and fun, cheap booze, drugs and women, fine hotels and some of the best restaurants in Asia. Had everything, mountains, great beaches and if you fancied an escape to the country you just had to bowl up to the NTs.

In those days, just taking the Star Ferry and surveying the sheer vitality of the place got the pulse quickening.

Nowhere else like it in the world but the frisson has definitely gone now.

Sorry to have missed that.

Originally Posted by Koojo

Originally Posted by thegent

Anyone thinking the Legco - Exco form of government under British rule was the more democratic must surely be away with the pixies.

HK's heyday was between the late 60s and early-mid 70s. Great pace and fun, cheap booze, drugs and women, fine hotels and some of the best restaurants in Asia. Had everything, mountains, great beaches and if you fancied an escape to the country you just had to bowl up to the NTs.

In those days, just taking the Star Ferry and surveying the sheer vitality of the place got the pulse quickening.

Nowhere else like it in the world but the frisson has definitely gone now.

Sorry to have missed that.

You are over-romanticising it Gent.

We as individuals change - and perhaps you are recognising and mourning that.

Regarding the piece i've highlighted.....when I last went hiking in the mountains two days ago - they were still there, just as you remember them !

Yes Moog, I daresay. More than a touch of " those blue remembered hills......."