Looking for Housing

This is Jenny here...

Roy and I have been in Hong Kong for almost one week--looking for housing has been a tiring, hot journey. Many places, small spaces, expensive rent.

Over the past two days we have looked at 11 apartments; 7 of them were in Discovery Bay--let me tell you about this place of DB, as our contact called it. A 25 minute ($31HK) ferry ride full of school children and some of their parents took us across the water to Lantau Island, the same island that contains the airport and Disneyland. Upon landing, we realized that DB was a completely different place from Hong Kong Island. A wide-open, rock-paved plaza and circular strip mall loomed in front of us. We found the Century 21 office and Ranee led us to a golf cart, so we hopped on. From there we zipped along the roads from apartment building to apartment building(Ranee drove like a 17-year old leadfoot). DB felt like a resort. People walking, jogging and walking their dogs along the roads. Children flying down the bike path on scooters, adults on bikes. The landscaping was beautiful with tree-covered mountains as a backdrop. It was spacious, and we smelled freshly-cut grass for the first time in a long time. The island has two resident clubs--membership only $470HK per month per person. People on the island don't own cars, they own golf carts, or rent them for about $6,000HK per month. WHAT?

Some of the apartments had GORGEOUS sea-views of the bay, others had views of trees or mountains, some were furnished, others unfurnished. Most of them had ovens (yes!)...Sorry, but we didn't take pictures.

Our thoughts: Living in DB would kind of be cheating...it would not be an authentic HK experience (not to mention the ~$1200HK per month for Roy to commute to work every day). Though, if we lived in DB, we could watch the Disneyland fireworks every night!

What do you think? To live in DB or not to live in DB?