Between 1976 and 2008 I spent a fair amount of time in Singapore on business. I mostly worked with the universities and polytechnics as well as the semiconductor industry there. It’s easily my favorite foreign country. Friendly and intelligent people, easy to get around, safe, good food, etc. Would I want to live there? No.
How were the creepy crawlies there? Saw someone pushing life in rural japan, but then you saw the huts they lived in and how they had constantly invading creepie crawlies- some pretty nasty lookin- the huts were not exactly sealed off to the outdoor world