Agreed, it's a unique and energetic place.
Shame that it's going downhill:
* extreme inequality - fresh graduates will have to work for a decade or more before they'll be able to put down a deposit for a 150 sq foot "shoebox", while the tycoons with their mansions on The Peak are chauffeured around in Rolls Royce and helicopters
* gradual erosion of civil liberties
* air pollution
* ridiculous rents - any business will have the rent increased on it until they're just scraping by, if at all. Main Street mom and pop shops are replaced by luxury shops catering to rich tourists (in China, you have value added tax, luxury tax, and the risk of fakes - so they much prefer buying in HK). For example, more Swiss watches are sold in HK (with 7m inhabitants) than in any other country [1]
The indomitable spirit of the Hong Kongers is inspiring though.
[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-09-28/is-the-sw...