If your job is safe you will hardly notice anything. I guess you have never had to change your job in SG. This is my 4th job in SG. 1st job last 5 years, it was awesome. The last 2 years I have worked in 3 companies, so I know exactly how the market is. The 30 days they give you to look for a new job is totally useless, it takes 6-12 months to find a proper job here. 3-6 months for even 1/2 decent job.If you are in Banking IT, then God save you.rajagainstthemachine wrote:Am I the only one who's positive despite all the doom and gloom? I don't have to deal with crowds, high rentals and queues. Its starting to resemble the Singapore I knew and loved in 2004.
Now if only the taxi prices came back to that level I'd be overjoyed.
Wd40 wrote:If you are in Banking IT, then God save you.
I wonder where do you see these effects, I mean less crowd and no queues. Also back in 2004, I paid like $1500 for a 3BR condo in CCK while now, the same condo, only 10++y older is ~$2700. And I feel the food quality is irreversibly worse and ppl on the streets less friendly. The only thing that still keeps me alive is the price per 1TB of the hard-drive nicely and progressively dropping down all these years.rajagainstthemachine wrote:Am I the only one who's positive despite all the doom and gloom? I don't have to deal with crowds, high rentals and queues. Its starting to resemble the Singapore I knew and loved in 2004.
Now if only the taxi prices came back to that level I'd be overjoyed.
Haven't you noticed many restaurants have started to close by 10pm, 9:30 is usually last order.x9200 wrote:I wonder where do you see these effects, I mean less crowd and no queues. Also back in 2004, I paid like $1500 for a 3BR condo in CCK while now, the same condo, only 10++y older is ~$2700. And I feel the food quality is irreversibly worse and ppl on the streets less friendly. The only thing that still keeps me alive is the price per 1TB of the hard-drive nicely and progressively dropping down all these years.rajagainstthemachine wrote:Am I the only one who's positive despite all the doom and gloom? I don't have to deal with crowds, high rentals and queues. Its starting to resemble the Singapore I knew and loved in 2004.
Now if only the taxi prices came back to that level I'd be overjoyed.
+1 for everything in this postWd40 wrote:Yupp, our time in Singapore is already over, we are just trying to somehow carry on with the momentum of being here for so long. Good thing is atleast there is respite from rents not going up anymore. If rents were in the same trend as in 2009-2011, by now they would be 50% higher and that would have put the final nail on the coffin and we would have left SG. But now, somehow topline is not increasing but bottom line too is not going up, so it's somehow OK if you can hold on to something to stay afloat. If not it's okay, it gives us an opportunity to try something new in another place and in hindsight it may be a blessing in disguise. So I would just say, go with the flow.
It is a sad state of affair when a single person, from the familee, can have such enormous influence on the destiny of a nation. Like his father, the present prime minister has been very effective in killing his competition. Headed the most cunning govt in the world. Has little interest in the POV of his citizens. A master in instilling fear and doubt on its citizens regarding the ability of the opposition parties (or maybe Singaporeans are easily intimidated due to a unique brand of brain-washing "learned helplessness"). These, I mostly paraphrase from a closed FB group for Singaporeans in USA. Oh boy, wow, did not know there exist such a huge dissent from these overseas Singaporeans. Or maybe just that group. I generally have little interest in politics but it is interesting to read their thoughts. It ignited a fire in meBrah wrote: If more than half of Singaporeans harbour some suspicion (no matter how idle or misinformed) that life elsewhere might be more relaxed, more enjoyable, more vibrant - just more - it does not bode well.[/i]
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Nope, I don't see any of those, perhaps because I am not a frequent visitor of restaurants and such recently, but frankly, I would be surprised if your observations (or reasoning) are correct. Think about it in the population numbers, how many people would need to disappear to see such impact. CQ, Chijmes etc. don't have their crowd made of FT alone. There are tourists and there are locals too and how many of the FT frequenting the place could have moved out of the country? More than 30%? I doubt. And with 30% I don't think you would notice the difference unless you are talking only about places that cater for FT.rajagainstthemachine wrote:Haven't you noticed many restaurants have started to close by 10pm, 9:30 is usually last order.
Many malls in orchard etc have declining audiences. I don't see the crowds I used to see in many of the usual hangouts. Chijmes, CQ, bq. Have you seen bq on a Sunday night? I understand nobody wants to drink on a Sunday night but this wasn't the case many moons ago.
we decided to go to BQ on a Sunday at 8:30 pm for some food. the street behind it houses several eating places normally catering for all audiences. you would normally think such places would be open at this time of the day, but a large majority of them were shut.x9200 wrote:Nope, I don't see any of those, perhaps because I am not a frequent visitor of restaurants and such recently, but frankly, I would be surprised if your observations (or reasoning) are correct. Think about it in the population numbers, how many people would need to disappear to see such impact. CQ, Chijmes etc. don't have their crowd made of FT alone. There are tourists and there are locals too and how many of the FT frequenting the place could have moved out of the country? More than 30%? I doubt. And with 30% I don't think you would notice the difference unless you are talking only about places that cater for FT.rajagainstthemachine wrote:Haven't you noticed many restaurants have started to close by 10pm, 9:30 is usually last order.
Many malls in orchard etc have declining audiences. I don't see the crowds I used to see in many of the usual hangouts. Chijmes, CQ, bq. Have you seen bq on a Sunday night? I understand nobody wants to drink on a Sunday night but this wasn't the case many moons ago.
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