If you wish to bring up the Mercer Surveys you should do a little more research before you try to quote a report that has nothing to do with what motivates Singaporeans. for example, Hong Kong is not as popular as Singapore for HR purposes for "quality of life" as Singapore for one simple reason - China's pollution into HK. In my company we are VERY FAMILIAR with Mercer.
Once again you utter lies after lies to try and distort the facts. It is obvious you dislike Singapore, so you probably have a personal agenda. You know Mercer well?
Probably not as well as you know bullshit.
Let me list out each of the factors Mercer and the Economist used in their surveys.
Here are the 10 factors Mercer used in its quality of life survey. Obviously every factor is very relevant to everyone who lives in the country. (source:
http://www.mercer.com/qualityoflivingpr#City_Ranking_Tables)
1. Political and social environment (political stability, crime, law enforcement, etc)
2. Economic environment (currency exchange regulations, banking services, etc)
3. Socio-cultural environment (censorship, limitations on personal freedom, etc)
4. Health and sanitation (medical supplies and services, infectious diseases, sewage, waste disposal, air pollution, etc)
5. Schools and education (standard and availability of international schools, etc)
6. Public services and transportation (electricity, water, public transport, traffic congestion, etc)
7. Recreation (restaurants, theatres, cinemas, sports and leisure, etc)
8. Consumer goods (availability of food/daily consumption items, cars, etc)
9. Housing (housing, household appliances, furniture, maintenance services, etc)
10. Natural environment (climate, record of natural disasters)
Here are the 9 factors the Economist used to measure quality of life:
(source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-of-life_index)
1. Health: Life expectancy at birth (in years). Source: US Census Bureau
2. Family life: Divorce rate (per 1,000 population), converted into index of 1 (lowest divorce rates) to 5 (highest). Sources: UN; Euromonitor
3. Community life: Variable taking value 1 if country has either high rate of church attendance or trade-union membership; zero otherwise. Source: World Values Survey
4. Material well being: GDP per person, at PPP in $. Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
5. Political stability and security: Political stability and security ratings. Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
6. Climate and geography: Latitude, to distinguish between warmer and colder climates. Source: CIA World Factbook
7. Job security: Unemployment rate (%.) Source: Economist Intelligence Unit
8. Political freedom: Average of indexes of political and civil liberties. Scale of 1 (completely free) to 7 (unfree). Source: Freedom House
9. Gender equality: Measured using ratio of average male and female earnings. Source: UNDP Human Development Report
Let me tell something little tard. Hong Kong's pollution is mostly from HK itself not China. And Singapore is favoured over HK by some expatriates not just because of pollution but many other reasons. Singapore is cleaner, English is the main language, better facilities, cheaper rent and bigger houses, English speaking workforce for companies to employ, air pollution is lesser like what you mentioned, Singapore is much less crowded due to good urban planning and has a more suburban feel as compared to HK where everyone is really squeezed together.
And Singapore is bringing in foreigners not because of Singaporeans emigrating but because of low birth rates. This is general knowledge and you not knowing this shows how appallingly ignorant you are tard. The population of Singapore has increased by two fold from 1985 (2.5million) to 2010 (5 million). They are planning to increase it even further because of an aging population and declining birth rate, they need more young workers to support the old geesers.
In fact, a recent survey from Gallup shows Singapore is the number 1 destination in the world for net migration! see:
http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?p=483441#post483441
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It's about the being the baddest, dirtiest and how to deal with your enemies and people i don't like. The question is, what are you going to do about it? 
