Nope, I tend to disagree.

You lost the freedom to scoop your own fav dishes and need to queue a long way.

They should adopt Malaysia approach.

No wonder, Singapore mindset is queue, queue, queue. Even buying newspapers at a sundry shop also need to queue 3 mins because they MUST only pay to a dedicated staff

The problem is do all these pinoys, indons, Indians have S$1m to retire back home?

I won't encourage this.
It's very bad for your health in the long run that you need to get up at 3.30am and reach home at 9.30pm
It can be worse now since the increase in influx of Malaysians flooding the causeway.
Better off stay in Singapore and get a 2nd passive income to fund your rental and utilities.

realised small group of malaysians after working 6 mths in SG cannot survive and packed-bags returning to malaysia

1) everything need to queue
2) no cars to drive, everyday take MRTs, buses, walk alot, up the bridge etc (lazy to walk, it's already a habit to drive for them)
3) no late nite places to hang-out
4) cannot simply park cars, to them not convenient
5) lousy food
6) bored weekends
7) could not command fluent english and being looked down (peer pressure)
8) stucked in small tiny rooms of 300sqft (whereas they stay in 3000sqft home back in Malaysia) - Home sick

In the end, return to Malaysia, wasted...
Not sure bout you, but so far encountered 3 similar experience shared by ex-colleagues over 5 working yrs here.

This post has been edited by WyjSwmW: Oct 29 2015, 05:19 PM

after encountering every single traffic lights per 100m of roads, I not sure whether you still like to drive in SG.