When we arrived in Hong Kong we started looking for a place to live in Tseung Kwan O, which is in the New Territories just to the east of Kowloon, and connected to the MTR (Mass Transit Rail). We found some places there which were (just) big enough for us to live in, and around our budget, but we found it difficult finding a place we could actually move into. The first place we liked the landlord came back and said that he didn’t want children living there. Another place had furniture fixed in which would make it hard for us to use all the rooms (one of the bedrooms had a desk covering half of the room). So we decided to take a step back and look at other places. We decided to look for places in Ma On Shan, which is in the northeast of Hong Kong’s New Territories and has a rail link, but is further away than Tseung Kwan O. We went and looked at some places and found one place that was a lot larger than the places we were looking at in Tseung Kwan O (988 square feet vs 796 square feet) but a bit more expensive. We told the agent what our budget was – about 80% of the asking price – and she told the landlord. We didn’t expect the landlord to accept, and went away content to go back and look at some more places in Tseung Kwan O, then we got a reply from the agent saying that the landlord had accepted the offer. Upon further investigation we found that the complex has free shuttle buses both to the university nearby and to one of the MTR stations that is close to the Hong Kong Campus Crusade for Christ office. There is also an extensive clubhouse available for the residents there and the area of Ma On Shan has cycleways throughout and lots of green spaces, so it should be a great place for the kids. We’re thanking God for His provision because we didn’t expect to have a place this good, and we have no idea why the landlord decided to rent it out at such a low price – we took one of our colleagues here along to check things out and she agreed that the price is very low for what we’re getting. We signed the contract yesterday and we start renting in the middle of next month. Now we just need to find school and kindy for the children and then we can start really settling in.