One people, One nation, One Singapore, United in poverty
Ever wonder why your salary never seem enough to cover your expenses in Singapore?
Here’s a reason why:
World’s most expensive cities, 2007 edition
Mercer has released its annual ranking of the world’s cities based on how expensive they are to live in. New York is the baseline, at 100 percent. Check out which puny nation is number 14 on the list (even ahead of New York *gasp*).
1. Moscow
2. London
3. Seoul
4. Tokyo
5. Hong Kong
6. Copenhagen
7. Geneva
8. Osaka
9. Zurich
10. Oslo
11. Milan
12. St Petersburg
13. Paris
14. Singapore
15. New York
Source: I.Z. Reloaded
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aiya. it's just the car and house lah.
Suddenly I feel so special, right in between Paris and New York... like... would be no different if we live there.
The whole secret is contentment. You can live anywhere in the world and have billions like Howard Hughs and Nina Wang....but you cannot be truly happy if you do not know how to find joy in simple things.
Cost of living and happiness not the same lei.
You want cost to go down in a country with a strategic location in trade? Forget it la.
Singapore's a pretty nice place liao. I'd say Moscow and St. Petersberg is much worse.
Now I know why all my salary evaporates before the end of the month. It seriously feels like working for free in Singapore. No wonder there are a lot of people getting so stressed out and more become backstabbers in order to survive.
The question to ask is, do you get the quality of service after paying the HIGH cost?
The greatest failure of this government is the inability to control the ever- increasing cost of living especially medical cost. We have CASE who puts up a show every now and then. It is an impotent organisation with more bark than bite with a serious conflict of interest with the NTUC as its boss. How can it then be independent and perform a really Consumer watchdog function like in other countries.