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Singapore as a country is designed that you are a local live with your parents until you marry (BTO. If you stick to that societal expectation, the country is
by gmerc 3y ago
Singapore as a country is designed that you are a local live with your parents until you marry (BTO.
If you stick to that societal expectation, the country is very affordable as the government will subsidize you a lot.
If you do not or can not, you will pay for it.
On one hand it’s brutal efficient and in many ways necessary (there just ain’t that much space for people to be single) and it’s reflected in immigration policy as well - trying to get PR/green card as a single is very very hard because that’s the only way for the government to seriously affect demographic curve without forcing people to have children.
- SenHeng 3y agoSingapore is 699km² (may have expanded since I left) with a population of almost 6m not including migrants. Tokyo is 619km² with a population of almost 10m [0]. And that's not accounting yet for the surrounding population that commutes into Tokyo. During the last census in 2020, Tokyo's daytime population surges to 16m. [1] The difference between these two cities is that a large portion of Japanese real estate are micro 1~2 bedroom apartments (below 20m²) built specifically for singles and young adults. The SG govt has for years claimed that it doesn't have enough space, in reality they're just want to encourage multi-generational living. 0: https://ieagent.jp/blog/eria/tokyo23population-601355#:~:text=「東京都総務局統計部」によると、2023,と非常に多いです%E3%80%82 https://ieagent.jp/blog/eria/tokyo23population-601355#:~:tex... 1: https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO62846080T20C22A7EA4000/#:~:text=総務省は22日,53万人増えた%E3%80%82 https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGKKZO62846080T20C22A7EA4000/...
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoMost cities in the developed world don’t provide the micro apartments of Tokyo. Their codes don’t allow for them.