Posted on 01/18/2018 12:13:24 PM PST by C19fan
Singapore was recently ranked second on the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Safe Cities Index for 2017, coming in just behind Tokyo. In 2016, the island nation’s police reported 135 total days without any crimes including snatch-theft, house break-ins and robbery. That low crime rate means many small businesses enjoy little concern about shoplifting.
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I’d still lock that doors. But that’s just me.
Yeah, I’m sure they don’t take criminal behavior lightly, too. Look at the looting, burning, rioting, violence, assault and battery, wanton destruction under Obama.
An embarrassment for America to have a street thug like Obama occupying the White House.
They need them some vibrant diversity like we have. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.
It’s embarrassing now not have him in prison.
I agree. In the old days, determined criminals like him and those in his administration would be.
Have heard many good things about Singapore.
I’ve heard stories from old timers on how they rarely had to lock their home or car doors at night - even in Brooklyn because the chances of a theft were mighty small.
Or at least that was the perception.
It's easy to believe that the crime rate is low in Singapore...damn,they'll hang you for *littering* there.
Maybe the fear of public caining workss.
I live in the West out in a rural area of 5 acre plots or bigger....I wouldn't dream of leaving my garage door open even during the day...
we were in Singapore 2 days. Never saw a cop, but the place was clean and no roving gangs of feral or muslim praying in the street. There were cameras on every on ramp merging lane onto expressway from airport. It is a place i would retire to except for family in states.
Great tax shelter.Thats why One of the 2 founders of Facebook (whom Zuckerberg pissed off) now lives there.
Who would ever commit crimes there? The punishment is a flogging, followed by an execution.
Have heard many good things about Singapore.
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Singapore => Not a shthole, and doesn’t accept immigrants from shtholes.
There are at least a couple of reasons why i wouldn't retire there...1) the heat,humidity and rain and 2) it's so damn expensive.
“I’ve heard stories from old timers on how they rarely had to lock their home or car doors at night - even in Brooklyn because the chances of a theft were mighty small”
Hardly anyone outside of NYC and downtown LA locked their doors prior to about 1967. We didn’t.
It was after all the court decisions that lifted penalties that the crime explosion started. And then people had to lock up.
An old guy in NYC told me later that in the ‘20s, Harlem was safe enough that people slept outside on the Brownstones during the summer.
That was the old America.
Think this would work in Chicago? Or NOLA?
There’s a whole ‘little india’ section of ‘guest workers’ from india, bangladesh, and nearby places. Its a very busy crowded place on Sunday nights with a few hundred thousand shoppers stocking up on their night off.
I’m a cal retired peace officer and so is my wife. LOL. Yes, i live in Cal but our four kids and our grandkids are all here. So that’s my story. My wife was morn in Manila and I don’t mind humidity. I loved singapore.
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