Jeannette Chu, who migrated from Hong Kong, says that four or five years ago, Auckland's main shopping district, Queen Street, was a cheerless place of which Hong Kongers jokingly said: "If you let off a gun there, you wouldn't hit anyone."
來自香港的朱蘊珣說，四、五年前，奧克蘭最主要的商業區皇后街都冷冷清清的，香港人開玩笑，說是「開槍都打不到人」。