To a tourist, Hong Kong may not appear to be the ideal city to raise children. High-rise apartments and congested roads are the norm, and real grass and parks are few and far between. But many of Hong Kong's problems are the same as in any other urban sprawl. There is air pollution and overcrowded apartments with no gardens.
That's not the whole story. Dig a little deeper and Hong Kong has so much to offer children growing up here. My husband and I are proudly raising three children here - long term. We come from different countries, and there are no plans to take our children 'home'.
That's because this is home for us. My parents raised three children in Hong Kong, and my siblings and I are proud to have been raised here. We all call it home.
I have to admit that we don't live in the thick of the city. Instead, we have opted to live in a diverse community on an outlying island, where our children have real grass to play on that isn't ringed off by a metal fence or with a sign that tells us to stay off it.