I try to write what I feel about working in SG so far not much work today hehe. Please give your input especially your MY experience all are welcome.
I started my working life in SG. Never work in MY so I don't know about the pay scale, culture, organization and cost of living there. Seeing many Malaysians coming to SG to work, I guess SG is better.
Input from my MY colleagues who worked in MY before, things like electronics, food, clothes, travelling are generally "cheaper". Cheaper in the sense of the cost % over income. Partially due to the stronger currency exchange for SGD. I assume this is the main attraction for graduates to come here as those are the things they are chasing at that age?
After some time we move to another kind of needs. Housing, transportations and setting up a family. Everything change from there. Not so cheap after all. For dual income, maintaining a car is affordable. We plan to get another car recently because our working hours varies, either me or my BF has alternate OT. After calculation and the new budget we gave up the thought. Our place is 30 mins walking distance up hill from the nearest bus stop. Try going up hill with heels before saying 30mins is ok... If one of us OT, the other one have to force to stay back too because we share one car. The cab queue around my workplace is even worse than the MRT queue. Petrol is cheaper though - about 2.2 for 98UL per litre and MY Ron 97 is 2.9 per litre.
We can't buy HDB because we both have properties here and oversea.
My parents hate me so they put my name in the house before they went back. Next choice is condo, dual income, pay until retired. Waiting for the second wave of cooling measures. Landed... don't even dare to think. So yah well over marriage age but still waiting. And the government is complaining of low fertility rate among residents. Kids will be another level of needs - akan datang lol.
LOL. because they hate you, hence they tied you with a house??