[Still Thinking]

Here I thought Singapore was built out, edge to edge.

[Openurmind]

“Here I thought Singapore was built out, edge to edge.”

I thought that for a long time about Japan. Because of all the tiny apartments and such. They have a lot of forest lands, much more than I would have figured.

[Vigilanteman]

Roughly two-thirds of Singapore is not urbanized. This includes industrial parks as well as jungle. They like it that way.

In a previous life, I was sent to one of our vendors in one of these industrial parks because shipments were not making it to the job site (in Thailand) on time.

My assignment was to roost on them until deliveries were on-time. I had to stay a few extra days because the vendor (a big name company) was chronically short of help. When I asked him why, he said people in Singapore preferred to work in the urbanized third. A commute of more than 20 minutes was considered too long.

I really enjoyed the assignment and was just a little disappointed when the trip had achieved its objective and I was able to leave. The food was great, the company and accommodations were great and the 25 minute door to door commute from the Raffles Hotel to this vendor was about half of the time of my commute back home (then in Japan).