rejected the offer from singapore recently, decided to stay in own country.

i rejected offer from HK, middle east and from own country to stay in Singapore... sooo   

I think it depends which bank and whether you are Singaporean/PR or working pass holder.

Because HSBC feeds her every month.

Hmm, apasal don't bother check the bank website leh?

https://www.hsbc.com.sg/1/2/miscellaneous/i...upport-document

thank you for the feedback. are you making this homeland a better place to live ? if you do not take up the new citizenship, what would you do after you have retired ?

base on the reasons given for leaving your homeland and reside in a new place, are those reasons a non existence in where you are staying and working now ? You are not treated as foreigners ? You get the same pay amount as their own citizens with the same amount of opportunities in careers ?

Just to seek some opinion here..I considering an opportunity to relocate to SG..considering that I have a commitment in the form of a house in KL..I am wondering if it makes any sense to move over to SG ..(take the salary equation aside as I would be earning more or less the same amount of salary both in KL & SG as it is a company relocation)..From a tax / quality of life (living in a rented room vs a house of your own for example) / cost of living perspective..would like views from you guys who have worked or working in SG to contribute your 2cents..thanks!

Congrats Lester. I was an EP holder for 3 years and I still had to wait for 3 months.

- Don't need to renew every 1 or 2
- lifetime driving license
- higher chance to win the prize in any contest; Singapore IC Nmbr
- CPF contribution
- lower medical and educational bill
- many more.

citibank wants 3 month salary slips before can apply, also want 3000 upfront.. which i dont have now -.-

btw q1 ep easy to get pr? any benefit of pr for a single person?

About that Chicken rice at Chatter Box. S$32 for chicken rice is a rip off no matter how good it is or if it is at a hotel. There are better things to eat for $32.

==== Cancelled the above because @deodorant removed the Chicken Rice link from the Signature =====

==== Update #2: now the link on the Signature came back ====

Anyway, forget about this, it's not important 

Yes, outside food is a rip off, nowadays hawkers can charge as much as $10, on the extreme side, particularly when you pick more meat.

Sometime back, this guy was charged like $600 for ordering crabs, something like that.

The 70% is for the time & effort required if you had to shop for the ingredients, cook it and wash up afterwards yourself.

The food is not going to shop itself into your fridge and cook itself onto your plate.

It's a trade off each of us has to decide for ourselves. Is the time required for you to shop, cook and wash - worth more or less than the 70% value add you pay to the stall? If your time is less valuable, then do it all yourself by all means. But if you deem your time to be more valuable, then so be it. Eat out.

eh, asking questions for a friend with family thinking to relocate to SG.

a. how much are childcare/nursery costs here. assuming kid 1 - 4 years old.

just want to ask, I am now working in singapore for almost 2 months, I being forced in email with job recruit agent that I had to pay him one month for salary if I didn't complete 3 month working period

so now I got better job offer, can I switch without pay him?
does this agreement legit?

I'm not questioning the choices you've made. I only framed the choices available.

And the point that I wanted to get across is that it's pointless to complain about food prices by basing one's argument on the cost of raw materials alone. That's because selling food in Singapore is as much a service as it is a product. A large consideration becomes how much that service component matters or is of value to you.

she said move before the first 1 month is over, so its before 22 nov. and cuz its condo, and i found it on easyroommate, so no agent fees. crazy man. are there many these sort of landlords around? i studied in oz rented from china/hk ppl for 2.5 yrs never see such behaviour 

No.
But I applied after 3 months.
Every sg grad Malaysian I know was given PR regardless of pay/position/company.
It's still pretty much a guarantee.
Same can't be said for other nationalites or non sg grads. Not to mention this may change. But at the moment, it's still relatively easy.

Not every local Malaysian grad wants PR anyway. Some rather postpone it as their company will give them what's supposed to be their cpf contributions into their monthly paychecks.

This is debatable..

Financially, you make more money, then it is not downgrade.

Job scope/responsibility wise, then it is a downgrade since a RM10K job in Malaysia is normally a directorship or something similar and a SGD5K job in Singapore is normally an officer or senior officer job.

You may then say cost of living higher in Malaysia, but Singapore is safer and not race-based, so it is really debatable.

If the person is planning to return to Malaysia after the job in Singapore, then it is certainly a bargain since the FX conversion would make him much richer..

u will be surprised....
nobody in their sane mind will hire u at that kind of rate
say u earn 5k sgd, u expect to come back malaysia n earn 10k?

from RM10k job to a sgd5k job is definitely a downgrade in salary

Really? Today?
So lansi.....didn't even say hi

I disagree. I think in totality cars prices are comparable to Malaysia.
This is due to the fluid COE prices. So there are times, where SG car prices can be even cheaper than Malaysia.

Alternatively, you can get a 2nd car with 3,4 yrs COE left. If you want a better quality of living.

I do admit prices of properties are expensive. But that's if you compare private. BTO's are actually cheaper here! Rental are also higher here in SG however food are far cheaper. Do not forget also, SGD command a higher spending power.

Fish smell is still acceptable.
Faeces smell however...
What I meant is that person stinks like shit so much that my friend who's staying in the same unit starting smelling like shit too.

I'm a realist, but most importantly, I'm not a hypocrite.
I would rather stay with an educated Malaysian regardless of race than a construction worker fresh from a village in Bangladesh.
My personal experience tell me there would be a lesser chance of hygiene problems if I stayed with the former.

So if most construction workers already have accommodation then there's nothing to worry about.

BTW, not wanting to stay together =/= discriminating against.
I wouldn't like to stay with someone who's an expert drummer but practices all night long. That doesn't mean I can't have a sense of respect towards his tenacity.

How about a less educated Malaysian construction worker with mud patches on the boots, dust all over the shirt and smell of sweat at the end of the of day, will I be discriminated against by fellow highly educated countrymen?

So regret never study good good in when in school. Now people look at me down always say from kampung.

So you stayed with a Bangladeshi construction worker when you were young until today ?

Note that I did not mention anything about Malaysian construction workers nor do I have anything against them.
It's just that everyone suddenly zeroed in on the "construction worker" part and started the personal flaming and trolling with their holier than thou mentality and hypocrisy.
In fact you're now judging the book by the cover when you assumed that I was a "elitist".
Did you know that I've close relatives who're once janitors ? I've nothing but respect for them, not to mention I once lived with them too.

My bad experiences was with a different group of people(who come from a certain location far from Malaysia/SG) and I would do anything to avoid being that position again.
I know some of their culture, and I would rather not deal with it. Eg: Wearing shoes inside. This doesn't mean I look down towards them, in fact some of them are extremely brilliant in what they do.

Some people don't really like to live with their parents/parents in law for the rest of their live. Is that discrimination ?
Some people don't like to live with smokers because they have asthma. Is that discrimination ?
If you put it that way, you discriminate every single day too.