Dhevarajan Devadas, a Singapore historian, posted a link to this newspaper article from 1984 asking young people what they thought about the rapid economic growth we were experiencing
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Relatedly, I just sent a family member a link to a really great job... in Switzerland... in their field and he was like, cool but I have to live in Switzerland? No thanks
LOL
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@skinnylatte What do you mean? Singapore houses are very cheap. Almost as cheap as cars. Someone recently shared a post about someone promoting a residential house (3 floors, so pretty big, I admit) but they did say it's really cheap. The asking price was 11 million.
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@skinnylatte When I visited Switzerland I was so bored (Geneva) - could not wait to go back to France.
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@loke lol, have you seen the GCBs. 20-50M omg
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@boby_biq other than the food i don't think i can live somewhere with such strict paternalistic social controls. i might as well stay home.
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@skinnylatte For anyone who hasn't experienced the property market here, here's an ad for a pretty regular house. Only 16.5 million:
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@loke @skinnylatte lol ya I remember when my landlord increased my rent from 2500 SGD/month to 3500 SGD/month. I told him that I couldn't afford that and would move out if he did that. He offered me a 100 SGD discount for the first month
️ I also remember the first propertyguru email with the news that an HDB had sold for > 1 million.
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@skinnylatte @loke Ya, I ended up temporarily living with someone who was super abusive. Managed to find something marginally better after a few weeks, thankfully, but it made me feel super unsafe.
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so sorry you had that experience