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What Things Used to Cost in Singapore in the 1990s

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It’s been only less than twenty years, but the cost of living in Singapore has increased exponentially. Born in the late 1990s? Here are some prices that might surprise you:

 

Taxi Flag down
taxi
In other words, board a taxi and just be prepared to take out two ten-dollar notes

Chicken Rice
chickerice
I’ve given up on using chicken rice as a benchmark to measure inflation.

Bus ride (feeder bus)
bus
They get the bus lane. They get the “give way to exiting bus” thingy. Now, they get all the money.

Car
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Just…don’t buy unless you’re very rich. Very rich as in…very rich.

Salary (Fresh Dip Holder) 
salary
Eh. Why like that one?!

 

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Low Kay Hwa

*The writer blogs at http://www.lowkayhwa.com/

 

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