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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Back when Goh Chok Tong was still PM, he aspired Singaporeans to Swiss standards of living, now I see we have to resort to comparing ourselves to third rate developing countries in SEA in order to give ourselves a pat on the back. All the while ignoring the fact that standards of living for junior lawyers has been declining while the cost of living are rising faster than our paychecks.
Well done, my fellow learned friends for setting the bar ever lower.
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I concur. Singapore is just another another polished good looking third world city in ASEAN. Despite it clean streets, polished furnishings, it is unbearable place to live in. The people there live in this “illusion of bubble” thinking it is an utopia in the world. Everything there looks like it is “working” when u look deeper, it is in fact same as the surrounding ASEAN countries.
Whatever statistics they published, the opposite reality is true on the ground. Singapore is the only country, i have seen publish so many statistics on state controlled media. The mass media is not a free entity and a government mouthpiece. There are not many jobs available and cost living is very high relative to wages. Slave wages, labor exploitation, lack of rights , authoritarian rule. Basically it is a third world place under disguise with first world looks. Getting out of Singapore with a overseas LLB and moving to a real first world country (UK) is the best choice i have ever made despite being a local born Singaporean.