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| posted by Paps of Jura 498 days ago |
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That's actual train journey time but by the time you have got down to the station, changed trains got yourself out of central station and shlepped up the essie your looking at an hour total... after the 20 mins bus ride from Sai Kung
It most certainly won't take 30 mins door to door from HH to Mid levels I think your been a tad optomistic
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| posted by shazza 498 days ago |
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If you are working at the airport, I think Sai Kung is way too far for you. DB sounds more sensible for you and yer family.
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| posted by Lucas 498 days ago |
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I think he is referring to train door, to train door, from HH to Central.. not from the enterance of HH Station to the loo on McDonald Road.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than open ones mouth and remove all doubt.
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| posted by Mr Rotavator 498 days ago |
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You are right, I am an optimist, I'm also always late.... not quite sure why....
HH to Mid Levels - yes you're right probably an hour, but DB to Mid-levels is probably also over an hour - bus to ferry, ferry, etc. Maybe you perceive it to be closer?
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| posted by smog 498 days ago |
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Remember that the escalator is going down before 10am so commuting up to the mid-levels at normal office hours is going to be a bus/taxi/stiff climb (and the same back down in the evening).
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| posted by HKBloke 498 days ago |
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wow - SK to West Island School is perhaps the longest journey in the whole of HK - and i dont get it anyway. The ESF schools work on a catchement area model. The ESF schools for SK are Clearwater bay (Primary) and KGV (Secondary).
Most people that go to West island live in Poffulum.
Also i dont understand this 'discount' thing re coming from the UK. ESF schools are massively over-subscribed and the secondary schools do not even have enough places to satisfy the demand of kids coming up from the ESF junior schools...
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| posted by smog 498 days ago |
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OT but this being so, why don't the laws of supply and demand kick in? They should put the fees up to the level they need to avoid having the parents pimping their kids out on sponsored reading to get supplementary school fees. (Surely reading is at the core of what kids should be doing at school - trying to get them to raise extra school fees by doing so is just wrong IMO.)
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| posted by HKBloke 498 days ago |
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Because that would price them out of the market. The fees at the international schools are not that much higher than at ESF and (generally) have smaller classes and better results. ESF did increase fees by (i think) 10% last year.
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| posted by smog 498 days ago |
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But you've just told us that "ESF schools are massively over-subscribed". There must be some level to which they could put their prices up which would match supply and demand.
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| posted by HKBloke 498 days ago |
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what raise their fees to a level that local families cannot afford them ? Not sure that's in their interest re the subsidy from the govt.
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