8 Reasons Sinkees should leave Sinkapore?

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May 20th, 2010 |

Author: Your Correspondent

1 ) Land prices are ever rising. With a 4 room HDB flat at $400,000 now, interest rates and a 20-30 years loan, there is probably nothing left in the CPF come retirement. What kind of price will your children pay for their HDBs 30 years down the road? If you stay in landed properties, you will be sure you can afford a few big bungalows overseas with swimming pools.
2 ) CPF retirement is set to rise from age 62 as the years go by. The board will not be able to support a mass withdrawal of monies from citizens and hence schemes like CPF Life have come up. Come 2013, unless one meets the minimum sum, he would have to wait till retirement age before the monery trickles to him in the hundreds monthly.

3 ) This place will hit a population of 6.5 million population soon. With thousands of PMETs unemployed, jobs are still going to so called “global talents”, what’s next? Even fresh grads out of the local universities have to compete with their foreign peers who have their tuition fees sponsored; while they have to slog for years before they repay their tuition loans.
4 ) The land is too small for weekend recreation. Those who have stayed in other countries will tell you that their weekends are trips to the mountains, fishing lakes, historical places, scenic train rides etc. Here in Singapore, we have the neighbourhood malls to jalan jalan.
5 ) The education system is too stressful and breeds the kiasu / kiasee mentality. Just take a look at the teacher’s workload. If these educators are so stressed up, what more down the line to the students?
Performance bonuses are paid to teachers if their students do well, what kind of stress do these teachers (especially from the top schools) put on the children? And as if school isn’t enough, they still have to go for tuition after school to ensure they score the As.
6 ) As long as the government does not change, so will our economic strategy. Attracting foreign MNCs to set up shop, no doubt will provide jobs but we are forever a hunting ground for cheap (albeit skilled) labour. And with the influx of foreigners, the lower and middle income class can expect their salaries to stagnate (with relativity to inflation) for a long time. The environment is such that it is pro MNCs. One good example is the GST: it was raised primarily because the corporate tax was reduced in order to continue making Singapore a competitive place for businesses. The era where passing of skills to locals is now bygone. It’s long overdue that an entrepreneurial culture has not been set in place. Children only study and aspire to be ministers, doctors or lawyers.
7 ) A fresh poly grad can earn up to $1500 a month on average 10 years ago, today it is still the same. A fresh university grad can command on average about $2500 a month 10 years ago, today it is about $3000; not much of a change considering that HDB prices have gone up 3 folds.
8 ) A car here easily costs 2 or 3 times those in other countries. While you slog it off and be a slave to your car for the next few years servicing the installments, in other countries it can be paid up in the blink of an eye.
Sunny Chow

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1 ) Land prices are ever rising. With a 4 room HDB flat at $400,000 now, interest rates and a 20-30 years loan, there is probably nothing left in the CPF come retirement. What kind of price will your children pay for their HDBs 30 years down the road? If you stay in landed properties, you will be sure you can afford a few big bungalows overseas with swimming pools.

=> This would not have been such a serious problem if wages had kept up with asset inflation. Instead, the FAPee TRAITORS depress Sporns' wages and expect them to make do with $500-$800 per month as they import FTrash en masses to leeplace them. The strange thing though is Sporns are happily accepting it when such betrayal would have resulted in an outright revolution in funcrtional countries.

 

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[garlic]

The question that should be asked is: ONE reason Sinkees should remain in Singapore... for me.. it is FOOD. That's all...

 

[besotted]

Rising property is good for the older folks.

Only the young below 30 are complaining because they don't want to work hard. They want easy life and are afraid of a bit of competition from foreigners to lift the service standards here.

You can be angry with me all you want. I'm telling you the side of the story from an employers' viewpoint. Local youngsters have really bad attitude and CMI in life

Therefore expensive property prices are good

No issue for the older people since they already bought long time ago. In fact they can downgrade and have lots of cash in hand

It is only those in their 20s who have to service 30 year mortgage and good for them. Otherwise they think they can talk cock sing song and go thru life listening to iPod

Fuck the youngsters. Who gives a shit about these useless spineless fuckheads

 

[tonychat]

There is one more reason:

To stay away from sinkies and their sinkie behavior.

 

[coolguy]

外面的月亮总是最大最圆的。
你要是走了，就不要哭着回来。
我也不会欢迎你的

 

[johnny333]

ONE reason Sinkees should remain in Singapore... for me.. it is FOOD. That's all...

Thats what I and friends use to say years ago but the reality is that the cost &
quality of food is going downhill.

When you start having health problems you really miss good health care thats missing in Spore.

 

[axe168]

外面的月亮总是最大最圆的。
你要是走了，就不要哭着回来。
我也不会欢迎你的 [/SIZE]

我要回来.. Australia suckz ! hehe

 

[tonychat]

我要回来.. Australia suckz ! hehe

ohhhh.. sinkie govt dying to hear that, they might even beg you to say it. I got an idea, make them pay you to say that. WAHAHHAHAH!!!

 

[chewed]

The question that should be asked is: ONE reason Sinkees should remain in Singapore... for me.. it is FOOD. That's all...

unless you're talking about Malay or Indian food, else most of the local SG dishes this days are being cooked by PRCs. They don't taste like what it's suppose to be.