> One guy I met said he privately imported (some of) the goods needed to build his home Someone having their own home built in Singapore would have to be extre

> One guy I met said he privately imported (some of) the goods needed to build his home Someone having their own home built in Singapore would have to be extremely wealthy. And the fact that shipping goods from Europe made any kind of economic sense suggests these were luxury goods. So, yeah. I'm going to entirely discount this anecdote.