Below is a rant/question I posted elsewhere. Still looking for some answers, examples, or a reasonable analysis of the personal economic situation:
“and a question for you and those in singapore in general:2.5k/month?? (The 2.5k/month was SGD, for a recent ID grad, I believe.) it is not a cheap place to live anymore - how do you all do it? will you live with family and not pay rent? will you have an hdb flat? will you never set foot inside the ubiquitous air conditioned malls to purchase anything? (again, not cheap there) i guess it could work as a young person sharing a place temporarily, but how do people save, move up and eventually buy their own place there? (especially a place that a designer might be interested in) who is making the car, country club, etc. dream a reality? how does a long-termer sort out generally low salaries with generally high costs? nice place, just can never figure the personal economics out.”