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i've been to hong kong a couple of times, and each time i go i've just been impressed. so many cities i could analogize to computers or plasma screen tvs - they work, but you have to fiddle with them, they break easy (and breaks beget breaks, soon enough requiring replacement), and there are lots of color coded wires you can't seem to figure out where to plug in.
like a quality vacuum machine, though, hong kong plugs in and works right out of the box. we're talking public transportable, easily accessable, multi-national, cleanliness enforcible, metropolitan milieu. expensive it is, but you gotta pay to come to a place like this. (compared to new york or london? peanuts.)
you see peoples and cultures and languages and economics come together at the street level, and you can smell the funk of micro and macro doing the dirty in the air. i think if the world were to turn out like hong kong, it wouldn't be a bad thing at all.
