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Potential Net Migration Could Change Nations (Singapore is the place most people want to migrate to)
Gallup ^
| 11/6/2009
| Neli Esipova, Rajesh Srinivasan, and Julie Ray
Posted on 11/07/2009 7:48:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind
Perhaps we’ve been approaching this whole “campaign contribution” thing the wrong way. Maybe we should be buying one-way airline tickets to Singapore For every Californian?
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posted on
11/07/2009 7:50:22 PM PST
by
DRey
To: SeekAndFind
So can we send some boats to Mexico?
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posted on
11/07/2009 7:50:37 PM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
To: SeekAndFind
Saudi Arabia +180% and El Salvador -50%.
By what insanity????
In one country I can be an infidel dog and get beheaded by even looking at a native mulsim woman/drinking a beer and another where I can be a rock star and buy beer for about $1 a bottle...
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posted on
11/07/2009 7:52:48 PM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: SeekAndFind
I suspect a lot of those wanting to move to Singapore might not relish some of the strict governmental control over virtually all aspects of life there.
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posted on
11/07/2009 7:55:19 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: SeekAndFind
~75% of the world’s countries have negative PNMI numbers. I guess the grass really is greener on the other side of the fence.
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posted on
11/07/2009 7:55:33 PM PST
by
eclecticEel
(The Most High rules in the kingdom of men ... and sets over it the basest of men.)
To: 2banana
One man’s heaven can be another man’s hell.
I have a strong suspicion that a large survey of Gallup was taken in the Muslim world.
To: bigbob
I suspect a lot of those wanting to move to Singapore might not relish some of the strict governmental control over virtually all aspects of life there.
Many people in the world don't think like us. A lot will be willing to trade some amount of freedom for great stability and order. Singapore provides that with almost no corruption.
To: SeekAndFind
This chart is worthless. It ranks countries based on the % increase in population if all who wanted to move there actually did. Of course the developed countries with the smallest populations rank at the top. Singapore has a total population of 4.5m. If 11.7m people want to move there, the population goes up 260%. If the same 11.7m people want to move to the US (304m pop), the population goes up 3.8%. In reality, the number of people who want to come to the US is 182m people, or over 15x the number who want to move to Singapore.
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posted on
11/07/2009 8:03:43 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
To: DRey
I’d go. My Singaporean acquaintances say it’s very nice, although too hot and humid.
To: married21
You’d love how “friendly” they are over there.
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posted on
11/07/2009 8:10:12 PM PST
by
DRey
To: married21
Did you ask your acquaintances why they call Singapore a “fine” place ?
To: bigbob
>I suspect a lot of those wanting to move to Singapore might not relish some of the strict governmental control over virtually all aspects of life there.
Yessir. I visited there years ago with a now ex-GF who’s from there and the stories she told were more draconian. I had to search the web about those “legendary” govt rules just to be objective. The streets are damn clean though. I like my Asian destination dirty, gritty and cosmopolitan like Manila.
To: 2banana
Saudi Arabia +180% and El Salvador -50%. By what insanity???? In one country I can be an infidel dog and get beheaded by even looking at a native mulsim woman/drinking a beer and another where I can be a rock star and buy beer for about $1 a bottle... The subheader added by the Freerepublic poster is wrong. The chart talks about the potential impact on the populations of the destination countries if everyone who wanted to migrate there actually did. The most popular country remains the US. The 260% refers to the impact on Singapore's 4.7m population if the 11m odd people who wanted in actually showed up. The 60% US number refers to the US population's increase if the 180m odd people who wanted in were admitted.
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posted on
11/07/2009 8:51:41 PM PST
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always)
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posted on
11/07/2009 9:15:07 PM PST
by
TornadoAlley3
(Obama is everything Oklahoma is not.)
To: SeekAndFind
Are you alluding to the fines they impose for things like dropping chewing gum on the sidewalk?
You know, I live in a place where people scrawl obscenities on kids playground equipment, and do all kinds of other crude, noisy, trashy, dangerous stuff. Even the trivial stuff, like the jeans that sag below the underwear line, can accumulate to where the environment is just demoralizing.
I’m not buying a plane ticket tomorrow, but surely you can understand why somebody would get really fed up with the vulgar side of American life and be a little wistful for a place where people had higher standards.
To: SeekAndFind
In a Libertarian sense,which is still the freest?
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posted on
11/07/2009 10:34:52 PM PST
by
nomad
To: SeekAndFind
I've been to Singapore on business numerous times. I find the people to be pleasant, with few exceptions, even the street vendors who want to sell you something. Tell them "no, thanks" and they leave you alone or tell you to have a nice day. In Hong Kong, Seoul and much of the rest of Asia, they don't take the hint.
I could live with the restrictions on litter, gum and smoking because I'm not the type of person who thinks the world is my trash can.
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posted on
11/07/2009 10:37:00 PM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: SeekAndFind
Interesting that Switzerland is not on the list.
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posted on
11/07/2009 11:07:01 PM PST
by
Carry_Okie
(Islam offers three choices: surrender, fight, or die.)
To: married21
Are you alluding to the fines they impose for things like dropping chewing gum on the sidewalk?
Yes, you got it. A fine here, a fine there for failing to do this and that and pretty soon you're really adding up the money. I had an Australian friend who went to the public toilet and after peeing, forgot to flush. He was actually caught by the pee police who was merciful enough to consider him a foreigner and let him go with just a harsh warning about public sanitation ( had he been a native Singaporean, it would have been a $30 fine ).
What gets to me is the fact that they have officers spying on you even in public toilets !! How'd you like to live in a big brother city like that ?
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