Overcrowding Sg = DISASTER!

[makapaaa]

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to last Wednesday's report, "Pack them in, build them up".
Any expert who thinks it is a great idea to keep on increasing the population of Singapore should spend a week or so living like the average Singaporean and not just stay in prime, low-density neighbourhoods which are 10 minutes from the centre of the city.
It is not right to compare Singapore to other major cities; the packed-in residents of New York, Tokyo or London can simply take a drive to the countryside on the weekends to 'get away from it all'.
Singaporeans who want to do the same will have to travel to another country - Malaysia - and suffer long delays to leave and enter. So much for de-stressing.
I thought our aspiration was for a Swiss standard of living, not a Hong Kong manner of living. The Hong Kongers are "richer" than us in terms of the value of their properties, but poorer indeed in terms of their quality of life.
Unlike many policies which can be corrected if shown to be wrong, it will not be easy to reverse the population if the policy is shown to have taken the country down the wrong path.
Singapore still has an enviable lifestyle. It might not be the case when it becomes over-populated. Cheah Swee Keat

 

[besotted]

>>>>>Singapore still has an enviable lifestyle<<<<<<<

Only if all the arrogant whites and their Pinkerton worshippers go, then we have enviable lifestyle

 

[hockbeng]

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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to last Wednesday's report, "Pack them in, build them up".
Any expert who thinks it is a great idea to keep on increasing the population of Singapore should spend a week or so living like the average Singaporean and not just stay in prime, low-density neighbourhoods which are 10 minutes from the centre of the city.
It is not right to compare Singapore to other major cities; the packed-in residents of New York, Tokyo or London can simply take a drive to the countryside on the weekends to 'get away from it all'.
Singaporeans who want to do the same will have to travel to another country - Malaysia - and suffer long delays to leave and enter. So much for de-stressing.
I thought our aspiration was for a Swiss standard of living, not a Hong Kong manner of living. The Hong Kongers are "richer" than us in terms of the value of their properties, but poorer indeed in terms of their quality of life.
Unlike many policies which can be corrected if shown to be wrong, it will not be easy to reverse the population if the policy is shown to have taken the country down the wrong path.
Singapore still has an enviable lifestyle. It might not be the case when it becomes over-populated. Cheah Swee Keat

These so-called experts are idiots!!
They will trumpet whatever their pay master wants them to say.
Increase population density can increase qualityof life?? What a joke!
This moron should shift his whole family over to spore and stay in a 3 room HDB flat and STAY FOR 20 YEARS!! NOT 1 week. 1 week anyone can tahan lah!(Ranger training 1 week anyone also can tahan)

 

[littlefish]

Agree with everything except that HongKongers have a poorer quality of life. HK has huge mountain ranges and Macau, China and Taiwan are just a stone's throw away. They also have freedoms that the average Singapore citizen dare not dream of. Another plus point is that the climate is not as oppressively hot but they do have high air pollution though.

For the Chinese/Indians/Others in Singapore who do not speak Malay, they have to venture into unfamiliar (or maybe just very different from home) territory everytime they escape to Malaysia.