Upon further thought, this is the issue I have with similar posts as the OP's comment: Imagine you're an entrepreneur in Austin, TX. Every time you write a pre

Upon further thought, this is the issue I have with similar posts as the OP's comment: Imagine you're an entrepreneur in Austin, TX. Every time you write a press release, post on HN or otherwise mention Austin, someone immediately comes up and talks about how Texas has such strange politicians, that Rick Perry is corrupt and hates the environment, that the Church of X or Y has done something bad, that rednecks this or that, that there's no state tax, welfare is bad, regulation too lax, gun laws scary, Texans too fat etc. and the original topic never gets discussed because the conversation ALWAYS, systematically, diverts upon criticism of Texas and its defenders' attempts at correcting it. Maybe it's selection bias, maybe I'm more sensitive to Singapore threads because I live there and have to endure these stereotypes all the time from family, friends and foreign communities, but it really feels that way sometimes. Singapore brings up a lot of really interesting discussion points, as an experiment in a lot of dimensions from the COE which limits car ownership to put a price on damaging the commons, from their Worker Pass to legalize no-minimum-wage work from anyone in the world, from their "city as a garden" policy, their extraordinary racial integration, their water policy, or more meta, the way LKY pulled a third world country with strong communist undercurrents into the first world in a generation, or how he fought Mao's agents... or this thread, which was originally about the developing startup hub, written by one of the government's own VCs (an interesting question to ask them is what % of their portfolio by value is in Singapore).