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Hard to get in as a reason not to try? I would say better stay in Singapore. Even if easy to get in, next excuses will be "hard to get a job, hard to survive, weather is too harsh" blah blah blah.
Migration is very very tough ok! No doubt! But at least your destiny is in your hands, your hard work will pay off. Stay in Singapore where the majority is pro-one party politics with no transparency, no free press.....if you don't like it, good luck to you man. Take your chances and fight for yourselves.
As my cousin told me those 11 years ago. You have 3 choices:
1) Join politics and fight to make a change.
2) Migrate
3) Shut up
winnipegjets, you are not in Canada meh? Back in 2003 I got the impression you were in Canada.
I have never regretted my choice to migrate. An important consideration is that I left not as a protestor but to match my aspirations.
Emigrating has open up my experience to how the real world works. It is easier after I discard the Singaporean way of thinking. No doubt I was lucky to get into the right support network. For a long time, I did not understand how the less lucky migrants lived.
If anyone think PAP has won, I doubt so. To leave a minority without representation is bad, esp with the economic outlook getting bleak.
PAP can go back to its old ways, even if it is moving to the Left slightly. (Perception)
Australians usu boot out the government that go to the poll 1 year earlier. WA and QLD suffered the same fate.
Loong is smart. His 2016 GE is a resounding success. Why 9-11? And he still have Sinkies under his spell. The opposition are pretty fragmented and will never gain any inroads.
The PAP system is now so open to corruption, cronyism now that the old guard has expired and there are no Separation of power.
Good luck to the voters whose choice will return to haunt them 10 years from now.