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Demand from mainlanders has pushed up property prices to increasingly unaffordable levels for many Macanese, exacerbating inequality and stoking discontent.
The flood of prosperous mainlanders has provoked considerable angst in Hong Kong, particularly among the young, many of whom struggle to find jobs these days, especially if they are not fluent in Mandarin, a different Chinese tongue from the Cantonese that most residents speak here.
Resentment of mainlanders has continued to mount in Hong Kong since the Chinese government moved in last year to try and control the city's inaugural 2017 leadership elections, despite earlier promises of greater political autonomy following the city's return to Chinese control after 156 years of British governance.
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More recently, forms of localism that reject the Mainland and mainlanders have emerged.
In an opinion piece in Global Times, a populist mainland newspaper, Wendy Wang, a freelance writer from Shanghai, noted that mainlanders had long been derided on Hong Kong television, with men often portrayed as mobsters and women as flirty or worse.
Mainlanders have been verbally abused and jostled by masked protesters.
But few mainlanders have been to Hong Kong, and to them Shenzhen is astonishing.
Since the fifties, most mainlanders had written a simplified version of Chinese.
As the mainlanders have run out of options, they have grown frustrated and angry.
The mainlanders have recently been asking him to include spaces purposely built for art.
In terms of their day-to-day worries, mainlanders have a lot in common with Hong Kong's citizens.
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