Education and growing up
Free education, HKDSE and vocational routes
COUNTRY LIFE / HKG
A life in Hong Kong
Find your route through school, cross-district commutes and family care.
01 / QUESTION
What might life be like if you were born in Hong Kong?
School systems, changing jobs and housing costs form the setting for this fictional life.
Hong Kong SAR China / 1950–2025
Choices along the way
Factory transitions, hotels, catering and retail · Childcare, pickups, housing and everyday spending
02 / START
Set your birth
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
03 / GENERATIONS
A country across generations
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
1979Sources and scope
In 1979, the MTR began passenger service; MTR’s railway history records the opening.
Sources describe the social setting for the relevant era; choices and the simulation shape each person’s work, family and outcome.
04 / EVERYDAY LIFE
Choices along the way
Work and careers
Factory transitions, hotels, catering and retail
Family and everyday life
Childcare, pickups, housing and everyday spending
Life across generations
Nine-year free education in 1978, the MTR opening in 1979 and MPF in 2000 shaped different generations.
05 / SOURCES
Sources and scope
Population statistics describe the era, not the outcome of one person’s life.
教育章：九年免費教育
Original source ↗香港中學文憑考試自2012年實施
Original source ↗職業訓練局
Original source ↗鐵路歷史：1979年通車
Original source ↗強積金制度里程碑
Original source ↗2021年人口普查
Original source ↗住戶統計
Original source ↗06 / LIFE ARCHIVE
Lives that began here
Only completed simulation records voluntarily made public by players appear here.
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07 / NEXT COUNTRY
Choose a birthplace. Discover a different life.
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