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Singapore was never "cool" as long as I remember in Asian expat circles since 90s. It's like the nice clean manicured places where boring expats who enjoys boil
by maxglute 8mo ago
Singapore was never "cool" as long as I remember in Asian expat circles since 90s. It's like the nice clean manicured places where boring expats who enjoys boiled potatoes and chicken breasts without spice settle. Dubai without all the high quality sin.
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- badc0ffee 8mo agoI thought Dubai was Dubai without all the high quality sin.
- maxglute 8mo agoTame Orchard towers and four floors of whores never produced dubai chocolate tier of memes. Singapore is Disney with death penalty. Dubai is Disney with Minnie Mouse scat play. Hilariously, both great places to raise kids if you stick to the main attractions.
- deaux 8mo ago> Hilariously, both great places to raise kids if you stick to the main attractions. I haven't heard of many examples of people having profoundly positive impacts on the world being raised in either of those two countries. Of course, this will be impacted by their size and in the case of Dubai, it's recent ascendancy. Still, it makes me very wary of that claim.
- maxglute 8mo agoI mean in the practical sense -safe, good amenities, schooling, access to migrant nannies. Great place to raise kids =/= raise great kids. Especially for expat bubbles.
- deaux 8mo agoMy idea of a great place to raise kids is one that optimizes the likelihood of them becoming great kids. I don't think they fit the bill. Admittedly, I'm not sure where in the world would rank highest, but I do think both wouldn't score high.
- rayiner 8mo agoThere's the fact that they created a first world economy out of nothing, unlike the Gulf countries that just found oil under their feet.
- sien 8mo agoThat's very true. Singapore has done extremely well economically. But it's not cool. That's something else. Tokyo, for example, is cool, fashion, music, films and computer games come out of Tokyo. But that's very hard to say of Singapore. Perhaps it's like Luxembourg and Lisbon. Admittedly the link at the top is from Marginal Revolution where 'cool' may mean economically successful and interesting for policy makers.
- maxglute 8mo agoSerious people TM. It's not a knock, no shame in SG being regional Ned Flanders.
- tomjakubowski 8mo agoThe regional Sy Ableman.