Background Story: Singapore PR: I wont convert to citizen because Singapore has 'crap' welfare
I live in another First World country and I can compare and feel the difference in the quality of life between SG and the country where I’m living in now.
Even though I pay more in direct taxes, I’m more comfortable and end up better off and have little worry if I fall sick or grow old. You also have the cushion of unemployment benefits.
I get absolutely free medical care and hospitalization and a State pension when I’m old.
For sure, I won’t have to work as a toilet cleaner of collect tin cans and carton boxes when I’m a frail and bent old 70 or 80 year-old.
Over here, anyone who earns a median or average salary, as the majority do (unlike in Singapore with extremes) could afford a landed property and easily two or three cars in the garage. One car in SG gets you three cars here, with lots change to spare too. For a lower-end small sedan, one car in SG gets you 5 or up to 10 cars here.
There is simply no comparison when it comes to the real standard of living or quality of life. Those self-paid millionaire Civil Servants boast they will attain the Swiss standard of living for us, or get us into the World Cup 2010. If only they are as capable as measured and demanded by the competitive private sector for the out-of-this-world salaries they received (pay themselves).
I recall not too long ago, anyone in SG who strived could afford a car too, and a home easily (ok, a 4-room or 5-room HDB, not a bungalow although many could afford that too without too much difficulty, a landed property) despite our tiny land size or limited land. I recall many graduates aspired to own a private property, realistically. Many were able to realize that dream.
Then came those scholars who were able to master something only if you throw them the textbooks but otherwise have no ability to think who messed it all up.
Today, the younger generations have their dreams and illusions in life dashed, shattered, and in its place nightmares about how they are going to buy a house, get married and raise a family.
And those so-called scholars were unable to understand why we don’t produce more babies and kept making policies that put more pressures on our lives that continue to discourage us from having more babies.
They have their dreams and hopes wiped out by those who pay themselves the highest salaries in the world to make decisions for us, but brought us nightmares instead.
Not only to the younger generations, but also to the mid-age employees and older Singaporeans. Life has become nothing now but a struggle for all, except for the few who make the decisions for they make the decisions to serve their own self-interests.
So these people could go for their 5-week long $50K a pop cooking holidays or Nanjing or spend time shopping for their $10m. homes, courtesy of the tax payers. And could leave their job undone for there is no one to hold them accountable in their jobs. They continue to receive their lavish pay come what may. Civil servants here are kings!
So we now find just about every Singaporean would migrate if they could, and foreigners who come to get as much out of the system as they could from our pro-foreigner policies but no thanks, if you asked them to sink their roots here.
They’d ask themselves the same questions as we do. What’s there in store for them or their children or their future?
So don’t blame this PR for writing this letter. Anyone in that situation would do the same. If they make policies that encourage or allow it, why not? It’s a free society. To each his own.
Oops no, on the contrary, Singaporeans not only don’t have a life, they don’t have freedom either.
Foreigner in their right mind