She is the daughter of migrants who first moved to Bahrain in the 1990s and later settled in Dubai, she was born and raised in Dubai in a wealthy family. Reet began her journey to Hong Kong after university, at a moment when she felt deeply stuck in Dubai, a period she describes as being “bored out of my mind.” She refused to return to the UK, which had “burned me too hard” as she recalls, and started looking for a new place to build her life.

After a brief 24-hour visit, she felt an unexpected pull toward Hong Kong, wanting an English-speaking place in Asia, she narrowed her search to Singapore and Hong Kong, applied for a job here, and as she recalls “it was very clear… I was gonna get it.”