‘I wish I could move to Taiwan when I grow up,’ the fifth-grader writes
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/04/17
By: Huang Tzu-ti, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
Essay by HK student (photo from Facebook user 搣時潘)
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – A photo of an essay by a Hong Kong elementary school student about his yearning to“move to Taiwan” has gone viral after being posted on Facebook by a teacher on April 13.
The teacher, surnamed Pun (who goes by the name 搣時潘 on Facebook), expressed sadness following a voluntary teaching activity where a fifth-grader wrote an essay revealing his desire to move to Taiwan because he can’t afford the astronomical housing prices in Hong Kong.
The essay is as follows:
I will move out of Hong Kong to live in a bigger house when I grow up. I can’t afford the soaring housing prices in Hong Kong, so I’ll be moving to Taiwan where people are friendly and where I can purchase a spacious house at lower prices. How I wish I could reside in Taiwan someday.
The words of the youngster have sparked caustic comments on the social networking platform, with social commentator Lucifer Chu (朱學恆) sarcastically saying that “The essay has managed to upset both Taiwan and HK people at the same time,” implying that the property prices in Taiwan are just as unaffordable as those in the special autonomous region of China. [FULL STORY]
