They arrived with rather few skills as Hong Kong’s low-skill job opportunities began to ebb, and were ill-equipped for the challenging professional jobs that were emerging in large numbers in Hong Kong’s increasingly specialized headquarter services economy.

They have tended to concentrate in the poorer new towns in Hong Kong and have concentrated on raising young families. All those kids growing up in Hong Kong have grandparents back in the Pearl River Delta, and have visited them often ever since they were young.

I know these are stereotypes, and there are many exceptions, but I believe the stereotypes have some validity and they have brought us to a tipping point: many of the older husbands are either dead, or coming into their final years. The youngsters born of these marriages are coming to the end of their school lives. The ties that have bound these women to Hong Kong are being loosened rapidly.

If husbands have died already, and owned the tiny apartment the family shared in one of Hong Kong’s new towns, then these widows already have a clear and interesting choice. They can stay in Hong Kong alone in tiny apartments without good job opportunities, or they can invest funds raised by selling the apartment to buy something more comfortable and spacious back home close to parents and grandparents in the Pearl River Delta.

My guess – and at this point it is only a guess – is that many tens of thousands of those women who have arrived in Hong Kong since 1995 through the one-way permit process will in the coming decade be strongly tempted to return to the PRD as the ties to Hong Kong loosen. The death of the husband will be key.

So too will the emergence of their children from the Hong Kong school system. The Hong Kong hospital system may still attract them to stay. So too might our rule of law and comparative absence of corruption.
如果不謹慎的去過好今天
酸素欠乏症
strongly objected
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力派女性を描
一個對顏色十分敏感的人
イプの自転車にはと
在我愛的周圍越燒越猛
前後左右からの座
の横には母親ら