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Genuine opinions on studying in Shenzhen or HK?
Hong Kong has lots of critics these days, but if you're from the outside and come in, it's a fun city, and very different from what you can experience in Europe
If you have a foot in HK, you can probably find a way to stay and salaries are not like at home: I was paid 2000 euros as a software engineer in Paris, I'm paid 11 000 euros now, and I work less. That's a big factor for me to tolerate the mild retardation of politics here, but some people are more idealist.
It's very diverse, and locals are now looking away from China so they'll be mostly nice, I think it's potentially different in Shenzhen
Shenzhen has a bad reputation here, the friction is heavy I think for everything, and as a foreigner you're auto suspicious. It's not (yet) the case in HK
Having started in HK can open doors in Singapore, Australia or Japan, but those countries are notoriously harder to enter and make a living in.