Living and working in Hong Kong, which combines the pace of New York with the natural beauty of San Francisco, can be addictive. Add to the mix world-class infrastructure, a low-tax regime and the rule of law, and businesspeople with long experience of the territory can feel like a fish out of water anywhere else.
Admiration for the city's traditional can-do approach to business – born of an immigrant culture that, worryingly, is fast fading – also extends further afield.
Commerce was Hong Kong's original raison d'etre when established by the British in 1842, and more than 160 years later it routinely tops rankings of the world's freest economies.