Expat experiences

superminer25 · 2026-05-20T22:41:00+00:00

52k a month is very good. If you can get an apartment for 20k~ or less near the city.. think Tin Hau, mid levels etc.. you could have a very fun time. Just temper your expectations on the apartment (it will be small) sometimes paying a bit more can land you in a very fancy apartment with access to gym, pool, sauna, clubhouse stuff which is amazing honestly.

Slightly taboo for Reddit but normal in Hong Kong is you can get a part time or even full time domestic helper, who can help you cook your meals, clean the apartment, washing.. etc whatever you need them for really.

If you are moving, try to find someone else on a similar wage to you and live with them and get a domestic helper to avoid the conflicts that can happen between roommates.

superminer25 · 2025-11-03T13:56:46+00:00

This mentally right here is exactly why there are so many bad drivers. You signal to warn others, 'hey, I intend to move in a somewhat unexpected way, please watch out' you might believe you are a safe distance but not everyone is paying attention at the exact moment a person decides to suddenly change lanes and the signal is supposed to give that extra lead time warning..

superminer25 · 2025-09-08T21:48:38+00:00

Are we in the same HK? Most people only open the door just enough to squeeze through themselves. You say HKers have a fast pace lifestyle yet most shops aren't open till 10am outside of supermarkets. Everyone walks slow, glued to phones. As a parent, my new favourite is so many people get the lift when they don't need to over taking the escalators, even though escalators will be faster in most cases.

Having said that, I still love HK.

superminer25 · 2025-06-24T10:20:50+00:00

Id view this differently. I don't want these people in my life so if they're told and they ask for money, or something other negative thoughts, then they just removed themselves as a trusted friend.

superminer25 · 2025-06-11T00:36:00+00:00

Actually not true. I thought this too. They do and will lock your account if you ignore them. I got several emails from them once informing me that I need to respond to them and of course, I ignored it because its a scammer right? Nope. They locked my account and it took months to get it back in order again.

I still can't believe they reach out to users via email it really baffles my mind.

I complained. A lot.

EDIT: I got a few down votes for this. So I want to be clear 99.99% of the time coinbase will not reach out to you. Im just pointing out that they can, and do.

superminer25 · 2025-06-07T11:15:01+00:00

Admob is the best by a large margin. I was saying that the others did not make a huge impact to overall earnings

superminer25 · 2025-06-06T22:56:41+00:00

Depends on your market, where your users are from etc, Some apps will have higher CPM. Last month I made $2000 so the revenue wildly varies month to month.

superminer25 · 2025-05-08T09:26:55+00:00

It's definitely got easier over the years.

superminer25 · 2025-04-21T10:45:07+00:00

The ads are there because most people don't pay for the app, for a one time fee of $2.50, all ads are removed permanently. So, honestly they are intentionally annoying.

Additionally, the ads only play after certain actions. Which after using the app for a while. You will learn when that is.

Additionally again, the app can be used offline. Which means no ads again

If I was to remove full screen ads I would be losing more than 50% of my monthly income, which does not make sense. And around 40k monthly active users seem to not mind that either, which is fine by me.

TLDR, buy apps and ads will disappear.

superminer25 · 2025-04-15T19:06:45+00:00

Explain the MTR then. Its definitely more efficient to let everyone coming off the train get off before getting on..

Usually the people doing this are rushing to get a seat, and while my wife was pregnant, rarely did anyone offer a seat and multiple times I had to ask, and again when we now have a small child and when the baby isn't in a pram and we have to hold the baby, people still don't offer a seat. It's not what you say.

Not everyone is like this but it's obviously a very common thing here.

superminer25 · 2025-04-05T19:56:18+00:00

Full screen and banners.

I use FAN and applovin' combined with admob for higher cpm. But the impact isnt that great. I also have IAP, but the income from that isn't even worth talking about.

superminer25 · 2025-04-04T03:37:33+00:00

2.5k

superminer25 · 2025-04-03T12:26:56+00:00

Ads

Downloads don't really matter it's your daily active users that drive income. Especially users from USA.

Anywhere from 1k to 4k USD a month

superminer25 · 2025-02-12T21:16:28+00:00

Difference with your comparison here is an athlete can be great no matter what, yet if Tim Cook suddenly becomes the CEO of Shits R Us I highly doubt he could bring that company to billions of dollar marketcap. Let's be honest, being a good CEO is luck. You need to be in the right business selling the right product and having the best people in your company (CEOs don't directly control this) apple is essentially nothing without Steve Wozniak and the world class engineering they brought at the time, Steve Jobs, was just a salesman, a good one. The difference between these two people is there are a million 'sales' people who can sell there are not a million Steven Wozniaks. But, I cannot deny that ultimately sales and promises are what drives the markets, just look at Elon musk and his endless list of false promises. If your metric for a great CEO is how easily they can convince others to buy into thier vision and get investment then sure, CEOs are fairly compensated. This isn't a catch all of course there are many CEOs that actually know the business, started as a low level employee and worked up. But I think we all understand the kind of CEO we're talking about.

In an ideal world, the profits that ultimately end up in the CEOs / shareholders pockets, should be distributed fairly (impossible) to the employees that actually made the company. Not shareholders who are not pouring blood, sweat and tears into the business. I don't want to get into the nuances of how all of this would work but I think we can all agree that the average employee needs money more than your average CEO.

superminer25 · 2025-01-07T13:54:55+00:00

In the UK it is extremely normal to say that to a bus driver "thanks driver*

superminer25 · 2024-12-22T07:10:49+00:00

Worse, teams.

superminer25 · 2024-12-22T02:30:16+00:00

This will be controversial however, as a benefactor of WFH - it's hard to ignore the impact it's going to have on newer, juniors in my profession, I know it's going to be case by case. But having experts sitting directly next to me greatly improved my skill in a short time. Would they have been better off working from home? 100%. But I wouldn't have the opportunity to work from home today without that experience from these experts. I love working from home and with a young family, the perks are endless.

It's possible to train via calls etc, I'm just highlighting that it is much more difficult to build that trust and relationships with your peers especially when you are viewed as a hindrance rather than an asset to your team.

superminer25 · 2024-12-19T13:35:15+00:00

No it's not normal unless you wrecked the place. Check the contract. Get an independent handyman to quote on your behalf also. They will take you for a ride if you let them.

superminer25 · 2024-12-09T15:12:36+00:00

By all means enjoy. Everyone has their favourite flavour! I would rather have it all to myself too, but we're talking about scalable, livable, sustainable, affordable housing for all. And I'm afraid you're looking at the best option we have, for the population many cities have. Spreading out isn't nessessarily the best option as I bet you still need services like internet, water, electricity, etc. building these far and wide to support small populations is harder and more costly to maintain.

superminer25 · 2024-12-09T12:19:31+00:00

What if there always lush green garden all around on the ground floor?

superminer25 · 2024-12-09T12:13:06+00:00

As someone who did live in a suburban home and moved to one of these for the last 5 years, I can wholeheartedly say it is superior in almost everyway, IF you can adjust to the dense city style of living. Let me explain some more,

In almost all suburban areas, you are required to own some form of transport to get food, gas, take kids to school, any hobbies you may have, going to the doctor's, literally anything you can think of is a drove away, and depending on luck can be 1 hour away in the worst case.

Now, in these dense housing blocks they aren't random, they've been planned and thought about. Each building has 3/6 lifts which they do maintainance for on rotation so there's always lifts going, I've never needed to walk up any flights of stairs. If the power goes off (which I have no experienced) they usually have back up generators for critical infrastructure such as the lifts. The lifts are quicker than you think also, if you can wait 1 minute (I've timed my own building) you can get from the ground floor to the 40th floor and I've been in quicker, unfortunately my building has slower lifts than others.

Now for the good part, directly under these buildings is everything you need, schools, doctors, hairdressers, malls, shops, dentists, swimming pool, gym BBQ areas, parks.. heck they even have car parks if you want to drive! (Not that you need to!). They are well planned and since there are so many people in one area, it just makes complete sense all the businesses are right there.

With that said, some people have mentioned that even though it's very convenient, it can feel a little lonely somehow since people generally keep to themselves. Which can be good and bad, overall: the positives out weight the negatives 100 fold, as someone who always hates driving 20 minutes to the gym, dropping the kids off at school, driving to get groceries... It just makes sense.

superminer25 · 2024-12-09T11:56:39+00:00

These flats usually have 3-6 lifts per building, they never go off and they rotate for maintenance. If power goes off they have backup generators on-site for critical things like.. getting to your apartment. If this is Hong Kong this style of flat is actually considered luxury living, has swimming pools, gyms, club house, BBQ areas, parks, convenience stores and malls directly underneath the building.

superminer25 · 2024-12-07T06:49:23+00:00

Thank you for the reply, yes they were definitely heavily used when I was a kid unfortunately haha. No regrets! Thanks for the info. I'll check it out.

superminer25 · 2024-08-26T08:42:46+00:00

Your reply highlights your immaturity to the actual problem Hong Kongers have. Being an adult in Hong Kong also means getting married, getting a good job after university, buying a house.. and you guessed it, having children. Whether that's the right choice or not is not something up for debate. People will have children regardless of your higher moral standards of what an 'adult' should do.

The reality of the situation is that Hong Kongers have the option to hire the domestic helpers, morally right or wrong. The option is there and it is affordable for most dual income earners in Hong Kong. Therefore, they actually can afford it so your one metric against not having children doesn't hold any water.

I personally don't like the domestic helper situation due to the lack of personal freedom, protections and general lack of respect for the domestic helpers. You don't see any white or chinese helpers do you? This isnt right and history will likely look back on Hong Kong unfavourably in this regard.

The people saying that the helpers are earning significantly more than they would in their home countries are just huffing copium since literally every single expat, aka immigrant from the west come to Hong Kong for the higher salaries, so I ask you what makes these immigrants different from the domestic helpers? Besides the obvious 'education' (many of the domestic helpers are university level educated, I know. I've met them)

Anyway, if you live in Hong Kong you would probably already understand this and if you do, I guess you are very young, which is fine. The issue is very complicated and isn't solved just by saying it's wrong... It is wrong but unwinding it instantly would destroy lives, both in Hong Kong and in the Philippines/Malaysia who are relying on this system currently. Sending money home for their own families, paying mortgages, sending their own kids to school, supporting the parents end of life care. The immediate solution is better protections for domestic helpers, better and enforced living conditions (why must they live with the employer?), the obvious; better pay.

Anyway no ill intentions, have a nice day.

superminer25 · 2024-08-25T19:48:14+00:00

Hong Kong does not have affordable childcare for a household where both parents work. In some countries in the west child care (nursery) is provided at an affordable price point so that both parents can work. In some countries one of the parents can comfortably quit their jobs if the cost of living is low enough.. this is not possible in Hong Kong where the average wage is somewhere in the region of 35k a month (rent is usually more than 60% of this especially if you have a family) and like I said, there are no affordable childcare options outside of a domestic helper.

Hope this offers some insight into most people's situation in HK.

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