The city's happiness level, as measured by an annual survey, dropped to the level in 2008, the year of the global financial crisis. And the least happy are those in the "sandwich class", whose...
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Hong Kong is a world leader in economic wealth but does higher GDP mean anything when it comes to general satisfaction with life?
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