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This is the most Expensive real estate in the World in hong Kong
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Homes cost 18 Times more Than an average Family's income
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Rents are more Than twice the amount you'd Pay in the uk with space at a premium
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Most hong Kongers live on top of each Other in tiny flats
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I've come to tai wai wire area in the City's New territories where the Leung family have a Two-Bedroom Flat?
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They share their home with four other relatives and it's Forced them to look for an ingenious Solution
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Wow
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It Really Looks like something
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futuristic You Should Be on Mars or the moon
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They've installed sleeping Pods in the front Room
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Effectively Giving them two Extra Bedrooms
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On the upper deck and my Parents
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So what is it like to sleep in that i like It yeah yeah i enjoy
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Sleep Here Just Like
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in this spaceship
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The Pods cost Just Over a Thousand Pounds Much Cheaper Than renting or Buying more space
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It'S quite fun yes oh?
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yes
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The Light is really relaxing Actually and It Feels a Bit more spacious Than i thought Because They can Sit up
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How difficult is it for a Family to be Able to afford to buy a house in hong Kong
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Let's Say One Daughter Brother and mother Go outside to work you save all the Money After 20 Years
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you May Maybe You can buy a house
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It's very Very Expensive pull down the curtain and like closing the door and you can Lock It Here how do you pull out
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and Stark Help
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Good Night
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The Leungs are Lucky
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Hong Kong Has One of The World's highest wealth gap the poorer you are the less space you have?
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So i'm Just about to meet a guy who lives in What they call a cage community Here and he lives Here because
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Property Is so Expensive this is all he can Afford i
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Just want to find out What life's like for Him
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At first there Seems nothing Unusual about this Building
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It's only When i get to alan's door that i realize Just how small his home is
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Wow Now i wasn't Expecting that i was Expecting to open the door to go into one, Place but
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There's Actually Two Doors Here
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can We come in
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This used to be Just an Ordinary flat but a private Landlord Has illegally
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Divided It into Bed spaces there are no larger Than a Cupboard Nice to meet you
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Adi adi adi
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Alan Has Lived Here for three Years
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He says Eleven People live in This Corridor alone and There's another One Just like It Next Door tell me about
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Where you live Visit this space or
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All of This Bit Here they're going a dollar
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Just in this space
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And
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Your Kitchen Where do you go for that i think Donald Keep Up
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so where'd you go for Food then
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Well took Lighting oh
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Allen Works As a Dishwasher
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He pays a Hundred and Eighty Pounds a month To live Here
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To rent a Room in this area Would cost Nearly Three Times as Much
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He used to live with relatives but after they passed away this Was the only place he could afford
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So you've Got about six foot of space
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Lengthwise
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it'S so small i
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Can't imagine What it must Be like to live in in this small space
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you Know book the
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Bobo's Funkier Find Out the Man
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KonyAku did you know i'm judy Pinky d so i put on my own okay that Black Women
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can Go Over California
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more Than two million People Already live in public Housing in hong Kong and the waiting list is four and a Half Years
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Is this normal Here in hong Kong
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They both Annoy going public in woodbury Knit one
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Alan'S case might Seem extreme But Over 200,000 people are estimated to live in Places Like This
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This Space Here is someone else's Living cause
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It'S incredible i mean i can't imagine it staying Here for for a day there are no Years
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It Shocks me to see allen's live-in Situation
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It'S a reminder That Where there's
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Opportunity There's Also
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Inequality
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hong Kong's Runaway capitalism has made It one of The World's most prosperous cities
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But This success comes at a price