been working in sg for 4 yrs now. no doubt it is a good place to earn $$$, however with the ever increasing cost of living (esp housing, transport & food) most ppl here will not be able to afford a good lifestyle. lemme giv an example. a typical citizen/pr stays in a HDB flat and takes public transport. this applies for ppl from the jr. executive ranks all the way to mid level executive ranks. only those in the sr. executive ranks will be able to afford private housing a car etc.
back in msia, ppl within this range has so much options to choose from, they can choose to stay in either in a landed house or a condo. they can choose which car they want to drive. personally having experienced both ways of lifestyle, i prefer the msian way of lifestyle. in msia, with a car we have the freedom to go where ever we want with no inhibition, while in sg if you r dependent on public transport, the full flexibility is not really there unless u r willing to pay the taxi fare. personally i'd prefer to drive than take public transport due to the privacy and convenience. on a more personal side, if a guy wants to court a girl, i'd think u would stand a better chance if u r driving compared to taking public transport.
when it comes to food, i believe everyone here will agree that msia wins hands down. let's be truthful, sg foodcourt sells the same thing everywhere, and they are not nice. the only food that sg has that is consistently nicer than msia is fried rice. they hav an uncanny ability to make good fried rice as compared to msia. to get nice food, we need to go to restaurants. but how many times a month do we eat at restaurants?
as a single guy working in sg, a good chunk of my pay is already going into my rent, food & transport as well as fixed expenses back home in KL. with my savings, i wont be able to afford a house nor a car in singapore. thx to the new ruling, i'm no longer eligible to buy HDB as i've a property in KL, so it is purely private if i want to buy and they are hell expensive right now. i won't wanna forever be stuck staying in a rented room, hence am seriously considering moving back to KL. the only thing that is holding me back the the absolute amount of savings i can get by working in sg.
perhaps a good alternative is to stay in jb and work in sg. something which i am still contemplating.
jz my 2 cents and a rant here...
That is what i am doing now and I love it very much. I have stayed in SG for 1 full year. initially didn't feel anything because was very impress with their public transport efficiency and also they high speed broadband service. but after a while, i started to get bored with the life in the common room and also need to go out 1 hour early because taking public transport. Now living in JB, although i need to leave home 1 hour 30 mins before work, but still i get the freedom of owning a car, a bike and rent a whole 3 rooms flat.
Feb 14 2011, 11:45 AM
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. but nowadays i cross mainly with bike, coz i go do the BIKES thingy, so i can scan also 
. Lets say they clear 4 person every minute per counter. they have almost 50 counters in the motorcycle side when it is peak hours. imagine they are letting 100 people cross the border every minute by bike alone. the jam starts from 5:30am until 9:00am. so thats around 40-50k ppl per day. haven include those that carry pillion rider. and we also haven include those that take bus. i can say that there is very little Malaysian white collar worker in SG. mayb 80% blue collar, 20% white.
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