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by nicolas_t 1284 days ago
To give an example of this, I live in Hong Kong and I've seen people park their very expensive lamborghini, ferrari and mclaren and just go to a small completely unassuming restaurant. I'm always curious so I google the car make I see and some were valued over a million usd. So at least high net worth individuals (not the extremes) feel safe in this city.
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Hong Kong actually had famous cases of kidnap-billionaire-for-ransom in the 1990s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheung_Tze-keung#Kidnappings
Yes and a murder in Luk yu tea house. This doesn't stop high net worth from feeling rather safe. The extremes like the billionaire tycoons are a different matter and I've seen Richard Li come in a restaurant I was eating with his entire retinue of body guards.