15 SOLID REASONS WHY SINGAPORE IS BETTER THAN AUSTRALAR.
1.
Australia cost of living is very high. Daily products and houses are expensive.
No la, Singapore is much more expensive ,cramped and overpriced. Pigeon Holes HDB 3 room flat cost $300k+, you can get a decent freehold 2 bedroom unit or even house in suburbs (not city of course)
2. China's booming. Singapore's economy is sky rocketing. Singapore is well placed to ride the China and India boom.
Singapore's GDP per capita (nominal) is expected to overtake Japan this year. Becoming the highest per capita GDP in Asia amongst all non oil countries! (Note UAE and Qatar will always have higher GDP than Singapore because they depend on their oil. They don't have a free market system like Singapore)
The Sad Truth is Singapore has no natural resources thus nothing to offer to China. Australia has unlimited rich resources thus the economy boom has been going on since early 2000. Singapore is greatly affected by external factors, during the GFC the economy situation was really bad (job losses, housing crashes) only gradually recover this year.
3. Singapore has an exciting future[/B]. ASEAN might become another CARICOM or MERCUSR, your Singapore passport can allow u to work and live freely in other ASEAN countries. Growth in Singapore is so tremendrous. Asia is booming. Singapore will ride China's and India's wave because SG speak their languages.
Exciting future where your CPF minimum CAP withdram amount will keep going up and government force u to buy annunity. This is the price you have to pay to ride with China and India
3.
Singapore is much safer, less corrupted and has more convenient amentities (library, food court, everything just 15mins away) than Australia. You can walk down any streets in Singapore and feel safe anytime everytime. Can you do that in Australia?
Aiya, small country of course easier to move around la, Australia is at least 1000 times bigger than Spore. Well I went jogging last nite after 10pm and I felt really safe, there's ranger patronise my area so its fine.
4.
Singapore offers a better place to bring up kids. Billingual education. Chinese is the language of the future. In Singapore, your kids will learn Chinese. Jim Rogers once said "if you were smart in 1800, you lived in London; if you were smart in 1900, you lived in New York.; Now if u were smart in 2010, you live in Asia". The billionaire moved to Singapore. And he is not alone, Gong Li, Jet Li, Jackie Chan, Co Co Lee etc all want to move to Singapore.
Singapore's biligual education unfortunately churn out mediocre language skills (Singlish = English) and laugable mandarin skills that will put a PRC to shame. China is the place to be, not Singapore. Australia is a key trading partner of China , it offers lifestyle and opportunities, and you could run a business in Asia and live in Australia/NZ
Singapore has no drug problem. Australia has a serious drug problem.[/B] 40% used drugs before. (
http://www.aihw.gov.au/publications/...a04/sdua04.pdf ) That is just disgusting.
Singapore has Geylang, the prostitution gateway in the East.
5. Alot of people talk about the less stressful lifestyle in Australia. But in Singapore, if you just be a bit creative, you can easily get a nice house in JB, Malaysia or Indonesia and enjoy the less stressful lifestyle there as well every weekend or day Plus the cost of things are so cheap.
Yea, and u get robbed frequently in JB, Indonesia and not forgetting Earthquake and Tsunami.
6. In Australia, technology is so backwards.[/B] 80 SGD can get you a 100mbps internet line. In Australia, it gets you a CAPPED 120GB 5mbps internet line. And how much is the activation fee? 400 sgd!
I agree with this one, but I still get a lot of bandwidth and fast speed with the same price I paid in SG, so I'm fine with it. Big country with small population thus there's no economy of scale to provide unlimited bandwidth here.
Same goes for public transport, infrastructure, business etc. Singapore is much better
Who needs public transport where I can drive, cars are much cheaper here, no 10 years COE and almost everyone can afford to pay in cash thus there is no debt, unlike Singaporean got to take up a 7 years car-loan and paying ERP everywhere he goes
7. [Australia has water problems. South Australia is rationing water. Small towns only have rain water tanks. Yucks, do you dare to drink rainwater?
We have resources to supply our own water. Singapore is relying on JB. Singapore is in the mercy of another country, poor thing
8. Australia has lots of dangerous animalsJellyfish that kill , most dangerous snakes, most dangerous spiders, all found in Australia.
So long you don't live in a forrest, jungle or live like a mermaid, you'll fine. Singapore has digusting bugs all over due to humity, cramped and hygiene issues.
"Funnel-webs are probably one of the three most dangerous spiders in the world and are regarded by some to be the most dangerous."
Here's what someone living in Australia thinks about the funnel web spiders around her house (most dangerous spider in the world, one bite and your child can die of posioning)
"Because......we get them in the house constantly, and since they are NOT afraid of people, you can step on one and get bit quite easily.
I'd say here in the house, because of my living situation, I see prolly a funnel web once a month now in winter and last summer I saw them once a week, crawling near my bed quite often, and yes they hide in shoes...so when u have to get up to pee in the middle of the night...given they really can kill you...and talk about having a baby here in a few months...it's the only scary thing here, really."
9. In Singapore, you can hire an expatriate maid to help you do your family chores. You can't do that in Australia.
I reckon you mean Phillipino or Indo maid who often caught torturing owners child. Thats the price to pay for cheap labour
10. Running a business in Australia is exhorbitantly expensive. You pay 20AUD/hr just for a waiter. Plumbers cost hundreds of dollars.
Thats because we have minimum wage, Spore has none. There's more enteprenuers in Australia than Singapore can dream of. The entereprenuer culture here is awesome.
In Singapore, unskilled labour is cheap. Very good place to run a business
Would you trust unskilled labour to run your business? Think.
11. In Singapore, there are much much more jobs and career options than Australia. If you live in a small Australian town, there are no jobs for you. Even their biggest cities like Sydney etc cannot compare to 1/4 of Singapore's career choices. Singapore has more than 100 banks! Lots of career choices from Banking, healtcare, etc.
Yea yea yea, a city of 4+ million sure got plenty of career choice. Unfortunately half of the jobs go to Foreigners, and poor Sporeans got to compete with 3rd world nationals but classified as Foreign talents in Spore.
12. Food.Food is Singapore is much cheaper and better than Australia. 1.50 AUD for 12 eggs! 1.5AUD for big packet of soya bean milk! 2.50-3 AUD can get you a decent meal of Wantan noodles, Char Kway Teow, Mixed vege rice etc. In Aus, it cannot even get you a drink!
Wage is higher here so people can afford. Char Kway Teow and Wantan noodles are not mainstream dishes here. U could get $3 toast + egg roll for breadfast
Chinese, British, American, Indian, Turkish, all kinds of cusine cuisine can be found in Singapore!! In Aus, it is 90% the usual Australian food.
Wrong la, Australia is much more multi-cultural and choice of int'l cruisine are so much more, thats because of the diversity of Australian immigrants and they bring their food culture here. The best Peking duck is in Melbourne not Beijing! The international crusine in Singapore is substandard, overpriced and usually run by mediocre chef!
13. Military defence. Australia has a very run down armed forces. only 50k soldiers. Their strategy is basically to wait for America's help. Indonesia has 500k. Singapore has 400k.
Militiary is a life-long career here and is volunteerily Troops are sent to Iraq war to help the Americans. Singapore forced males to go national service but none of them is equipped to go to war because again with mediocre training usually run by low-educated arm forces.
14. Singapore's property prices will skyrocket in a few decades. 20 years ago, 3 room HDB flats cost 60k SGD. Now they cost 200k SGD.
Yea, shoe-box size unit will be your only hope in the future.
15. Singapore's CPF! you will have money for old age, housing! The employer puts in 12% as well dont forget!
Ok that is all. Bye bye.