[SeekAndFind]

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 ?

[married21]

I guess you’d have to set aside a certain part of your budget for paying fines for things you inadvertently did, and try harder to be conscientious.

It would be easier for the locals, as they would have been practicing correct behavior all their lives. One thing about America’s relatively weak cultural norms is that we are not all practicing the same good manners consistently from childhood. I’d love to see a trend toward more courtesy and civility in our culture, but I’m not holding my breath.

I honestly don’t know if I would be happier or not in a tidy, classy, city with annoying, intrusive fines. I’ll likely never spend the money to go there and find out. I’ll be here, instead, trying to alleviate the truly onerous burdens which are government is weighing my children down with.