Hong Kong postcard, 1994
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This postcard is so Suzie Wong, yet I bought and sent it to my Grandma Blumberg in August, 1994, a month shy of my 24th birthday.
I wrote to my grandma about my shared summer apartment and how I lived with a couple of people I didn’t know.
Even though people did that in Washington, DC, where I had lived for two years before moving back to Hong Kong, my grandma probably thought I was crazy for doing the same thing halfway around the world.
At the bottom of the card, I wrote that Hong Kong was much safer than the US.
That summer, I often met friends at night and didn’t return home until well past midnight. The subway was crowded and the buses weren’t empty. It was perfectly safe for a young woman to be out and about in Hong Kong, day or night.
i roamed the streets of hong kong all hours and always felt secure. in fact i had to go all the way to paris, france to get mugged
And you were still a young child when you explored the streets of Hong Kong! I’m sorry you were mugged in Paris.