People in Hong Kong as well as Taiwan are frustrated by the high real estate prices. The housing price index shows that Hong Kong families can afford to buy a 30-pyeong flat only if they do not eat or drink for an average of 50 years, while Taiwan families need to give up eating and drinking for 22.5 years in order to be able to afford it [i]. Obviously the housing price is unaffordable for average income people in both places. Many parents even worry about their children not having a flat and, therefore, they may not be able to get married[ii]. To own a flat, people sacrifice a lot of things. What are they? Some Hong Kong people said “families”, “friends”. Some of the answers were quite surprising, such as giving up to be a human and some even said it meant “able to sell her body”. Phoebe’s answer is “book”, so she used books to respond to answers of the audience. For example, when a visitor said “give up privacy”, Phoebe used the book “I have no life (2).” to reply. She shredded the answer of the visitor and the book to make a brick. Hong Kong has a saying that buying a house is like buying a brick. Phoebe used more than two thousand art books to build a one-pyeong flat. On the door of this flat, a statement written by a Taiwanese was posted, “If one does not eat or drink for ten years, one can buy one pyeong of house.”Had any in the Taiwanese audience sacrificed things to buy a flat? A wall was set up for the audience to respond and to re-examine the importance of what had been sacrificed. A docent was in place to discuss the relevant topics with the visitors.Many people said to buy a flat, they sacrificed a lot of important things, such as life, themselves, love. On the contrary, some people said they gave up the idea of buying flats and refused to be slaves. However, some people insisted buying a flat is a must and questioned people just want to complain and did not make any effort.The answers juxtaposed together and we can see the similarities and the differences. Overall, a large number of the answers created a sense of powerless and hopeless feeling. The complaint of the housing problem was formed naturally.Note:[i]Andy Ma. “Taiwan do not have problem of living justice? Chao Teng-hsiung: The prices of the flats are not high!” House News, 22 Dec. 2012. Web 25 May 2014. http://news.housefun.com.tw/news/article/1253338286.html.[ii]LauNgan Yin. “Nearly half of the poor middle class worried that their children found it hard to buy a flat, lower income leads to more anxiety, scholars advocated diversifying the economy to release the anxiety,” Wen Wei Po, A24, Hong Kong News, 16 Dec. 2013. Print.