Well, that's why it was pointed out to you that the key is to provide the proper care. A pool is only a single potentially dangerous place with few hundreds other places outside your condo gates. Maids on the phones happen to be also if not predominantly outside and I saw really scary situation with some kids crossing the road under such "care".BigT wrote:This is the most aggressive website on the planet or the natives are - off course I don't plan to leave my toddlers on their own - but it only takes a minute or the maid on the phone - who knows-but the consequences are horrendous-
So are the gates to keep the kids safe, or their inattentive adult guardians safe? I personally care more about my kid than to leave her with a maid I suspect would take her to a pool and then chat on the phone instead of paying attention... But then I also refuse to have a maid (and it's not for lack of resources) because I don't want my child growing up spoiled like some of the privileged locals or even worse, snooty expatsBigT wrote:This is the most aggressive website on the planet or the natives are - off course I don't plan to leave my toddlers on their own - but it only takes a minute or the maid on the phone - who knows-but the consequences are horrendous-
zzm9980 wrote: This forum is definitely a bit hostile, but honestly it serves as a good dose of reality for cozy and PC westerns (myself included) who are about to move to Singapore. Singapore is not a friendly place, and well-off expat westerns are NOT particularly welcome, despite the impression you may get from the government or certain locals looking to relieve you of some of your money.
+1 to that. Obviously our OP hasn't seen a certain 'angry board'. The difference between here and that site is that here you will find genuinely helpful information (albeit with some 'frank exchanges of views', which often add to the entertainment value), whereas in the 'other place' you just get people insulting each other with very little net contribution to the knowledge pool.JR8 wrote:zzm9980 wrote: This forum is definitely a bit hostile, but honestly it serves as a good dose of reality for cozy and PC westerns (myself included) who are about to move to Singapore. Singapore is not a friendly place, and well-off expat westerns are NOT particularly welcome, despite the impression you may get from the government or certain locals looking to relieve you of some of your money.
If you think this forum is 'the most aggressive on the planet' then I'd suggest that you have not been around on the web very much!
Same here. In fact one of the things I liked here from day 1 was that my children could have more 'freedom' than they would have had back in London. For example, being able to ride in taxis on their own (with certain rules having to be met, including sms'ing the taxi number and telling us when they arrived, etc.). The thought of letting them do that in the UK wouldn't have even entered our minds. But I think there's a danger that comes from that, which is that people assume everything's safe, which of course can never be the case. Sadly kids do get killed on the roads here, etc., just like any other part of the world.JR8 wrote:I was surprised, initially at least, with how children were left to their own devices on our condo estate. There was invariably a group of up to eight of them (aged say 4-8?) running around up to something or other (collecting grasshoppers etc). But then I figured that this was the kind of freedom that I had as a child so in a way it was refreshing to see in an urban environment and this day and age.
Expat Singapore is the most aggressive website for expats in Singapore that I've found.BigT wrote:This is the most aggressive website on the planet or the natives are - off course I don't plan to leave my toddlers on their own - but it only takes a minute or the maid on the phone - who knows-but the consequences are horrendous-
I've never heard of that forum until just now... I spent 5 minutes there and it's amazing! There is a thread with people all arguing about how it's *not* possible for an expat to live here on 20k/month... Wow.BigSis wrote:
Expat Singapore is the most aggressive website for expats in Singapore that I've found.
nutnut wrote:Yes, maybe we should put a fence around the roads too!
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