Ask HN: Location-independent entrepreneurs, where do you live and why?
No one has mentioned it yet, so if I could ask, what about Hong Kong?<p>I&#x27;m an American living state-side but I have done some research on relocating to Hong Kong. I work from home with a salary that would be at least semi-respectable anywhere in the US (though of course not luxurious in high CoL cities), but it doesn&#x27;t seem like it would be enough to furnish a home or lifestyle in HK that is anything like what we have now.<p>Immigration seems like it will be a problem without employer sponsorship, and employment opportunities for programmers look terrible (though, to be fair, I don&#x27;t know much Cantonese yet so I can&#x27;t search in the native language).<p>I&#x27;m starting to come to the conclusion that the only realistic way to get there would be a career shift into finance and specifically targeting the type of jobs that often end up being exported to HK (along with luxurious compensation and relocation packages).<p>Anyone here run a biz from HK and want to share some details? I see several of its neighbors have been mentioned: Singapore, Taipei, Bangkok, but no HK. Is that just luck of the draw or is there a reason that entrepreneurs avoid HK?<p>I have an indirect acquaintance, someone I just barely know enough to follow on Facebook, who opened an office in HK. He&#x27;s been there for 3 or 4 years now, but just announced he and his family are relocating over the border into Shenzen to open another office there (as I understand it, his HK office is still operating, and, for the record, his company primarily does Wordpress sites). I thought this was interesting. I don&#x27;t know the guy well enough to ask him directly about what motivated him, but is this something people are seeing a lot of? From my reading, it sounds like the only benefits of Shenzen are cheaper rent and more protections from hostile Western governments (HK more likely to extradite and&#x2F;or honor civil judgments issued by Western countries than mainline China), and there appear to be many additional limitations despite Shenzen&#x27;s status as a Special Economic Zone.