| Personally, I love Kowloon Tong as an area - I live on the edge of it at Fa Hui (the flower market). Low rise buildings, tree lined streets (imagine), Festival Walk beats Pacific Place in my book (except for great and being near Central). Taste is the Great competitor...owned by the same company and doing very well at Festival Walk. Enormous Page One bookstore. Luvit.
A critical concern would be where your office will be. Regardelss, it is pretty easy for the commuter here--public transport is amazing. f your wife will not be needing to be on the MTR with the little one during rush hour, it won't be too big a problem to get around for her. But, she may need to get over to HK Island (13 minutes by MTR) to find activites involving kids. Though, I have heard that the YMCA at Tsim Sha Tsui is great and that is very conveniently located off the MTR. There are some playing fields below Kowloon Tong along Boundary, nice park, the Bird Market and Flower Market are a pleasant walk (15-20 minutes). The Bird Market would be endlessly fascinating for a kid, and proximity to the Flower Market has helped me cope with the loss of extensive gardens in Canada.
Good luck!
JJ  |