Notting Hill in London is the place Hong Kong exile Topaz Chan now lives. “Honestly, if London’s weather wasn’t the way it is, I would probably settle here forever,” she says. Photo: Getty Images Notting Hill in London is the place Hong Kong exile Topaz Chan now lives. “Honestly, if London’s weather wasn’t the way it is, I would probably settle here forever,” she says. Photo: Getty Images
Notting Hill in London is the place Hong Kong exile Topaz Chan now lives. “Honestly, if London’s weather wasn’t the way it is, I would probably settle here forever,” she says. Photo: Getty Images
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Lifestyle /  Travel & Leisure

Escape from Hong Kong: what three wanderers miss about the city, and like about their new homes

  • A fashion designer and her partner have settled in Rotterdam where the people are ‘friendly and helpful’
  • A freelance writer is in Barbados, while a globe-trotting account manager has been away for five years despite telling her parents she’d be back in two

Topic |   Hong Kong
Ed Peters
Ed Peters

Updated: 2:48pm, 23 Feb, 2021

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Notting Hill in London is the place Hong Kong exile Topaz Chan now lives. “Honestly, if London’s weather wasn’t the way it is, I would probably settle here forever,” she says. Photo: Getty Images Notting Hill in London is the place Hong Kong exile Topaz Chan now lives. “Honestly, if London’s weather wasn’t the way it is, I would probably settle here forever,” she says. Photo: Getty Images
Notting Hill in London is the place Hong Kong exile Topaz Chan now lives. “Honestly, if London’s weather wasn’t the way it is, I would probably settle here forever,” she says. Photo: Getty Images
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