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HK was just an example. it's true for most/all chinese cities.

Most/all Chinese cities are denser with cheaper labor than any US city so the point stands.

Are you sure about the first point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

Neither Shanghai or Beijing would make top 20 on this list

Did you even click on one of the "cities" on that page? The size of Guttenberg is 0.196 sq. miles. It's a tiny part of a city in a small state. You're comparing apples to oranges. A more reasonable comparison would be all of New York City or all of Los Angeles to Shanghai which would be more interesting.

Metro Manila is not as dense but delivery here is so cheap. Grab and Lala are huge in Manila.

Labor costs in Manila are much lower than Europe or the US.

I mean, that's already implied if you look at the comment I'm responding to.

> HK was just an example. it's true for most/all chinese cities.

Chinese cities have access to incredibly cheap labor, far more so than most cities in the US or Europe.

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