I'm a British male, married to a British wife, and we just had a child quite recently. Both my wife and I grew up in Singapore, attended local schools and we're very comfortable speaking in a Singaporean accent, but our natural accent is still RP because we're brought up by British parents. Other than our skin color, we could easily pass as a Singaporean.
We still hold on to our British passports and we are considering whether or not we want to take up Singapore's citizenship. We have lived here our whole life, went to local public schools, my wife has a PhD from NUS, while I graduated from RJC and moved on to Cambridge and got a Master's... In short, we're both academics, and to us, we don't like the idea of our child delaying his studies to National Service. I was not enlisted because I was neither a PR nor a citizen. I consider our family to be a high-income household because I have two condos and we live in a semi-detached house (all fully paid off). My point is, we're relatively grounded in Singapore and it seems like common sense that we should be citizens.
If National Service were to be reduced to a year, and boys who already have acceptances to university could leave in September (or whenever the first semester starts) in the year after their A level year, I would seriously consider. As I'm not a voter, I'm not really familiar with the direction the government is heading with respect to NS in Singapore. I would like to know if it's likely that NS could be reduced to a year?
Although I could just hold on to my British citizenship and continue living in Singapore till I die because I am self-employed, the reason I want to take up a Singapore citizenship is purely due to convenience, and not having to go to the embassy all the time. Thanks