A hard time feeling the struggle amid boom times

When the Hong Kong economy struggles along at a growth rate of barely one per cent, as the latest quarterly economic report says it is now doing, there is a distinctively pinched feel to things.

I have a hard time feeling it at the moment. Traffic clogs the roads as rarely before, shoppers clog the shops, property prices are at record peaks, expatriate parents are screaming about the lack of school places, and all around I see the usual signs of boom time.

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