alien6

I think she is confused. "Woreda" is the Amharic word for "district."

I'm not OP, but I think I can answer some of these questions.

2) KWC inhabitants didn't really consider themselves to be different from ordinary Hong Kongers, and most people there were workers who didn't actually live there. However, I don't know OP's specific circumstances.

4) KWC inhabitants were often criminals, refugees, and drug addicts who for one reason or another could not find work outside the city, or who had reason to fear the authorities. Other people were there because they grew up there, since their parents lived there.

If you watch the documentary OP linked, you'll ask yourself why wasn't it destroyed sooner. It was illegal in the first place, and only existed because of a legal kerfluffle between Britain and China that turned it into a legal "gray zone" where Britain didn't want to exercise jurisdiction and China wasn't able. All the utilities were pirated from HK city supplies, triads controlled the neighborhood, there were illegal enterprises all over, conditions were unsafe and unhealthy, and building codes were unheard of. I'm personally shocked that the whole thing didn't collapse or burn down killing everyone inside. While it was still around, it was sometimes called "the cancer of Hong Kong."

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I don't have a question, but I want to say that what you are doing is wonderful :)