Hoping to escape Hong Kong’s summer temperatures, more people are settling into the city’s numerous 24-hour McDonald’s restaurants to soak in the air conditioning and get a decent night’s sleep.
A new survey finds that the number of “McRefugees” or “McSleepers” — as they’ve been dubbed — has increased sixfold in the past five years.
And, it’s not just the homeless. According to the survey, organized by the Junior Chamber International’s Tai Ping Shan branch and carried out by volunteers in June, the increase is mostly the result of the high cost of air conditioning for people who already have a place to live in the Chinese territory, according to The South China Morning Post.
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