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Why Wall Streeters Are Packing Up In Droves And Moving To Singapore
Business Insider ^ | 06/12/2012 | Carrie Hojnicki

Posted on 06/12/2012 6:43:43 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 06/12/2012 6:43:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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But there is virtually no personal freedom there. You can be heavily fined for being in possession of chewing gum. And possession of even the smallest amount of narcotics brings an automatic death penalty. They may be prosperous, but I suspect a whole lot of these folks will not enjoy life there.


2 posted on 06/12/2012 6:45:48 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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I just hope these guys know that if they drop a piece of chewing gum on the sidewalk, they’ll be jailed and flogged. This doesn’t happen on the streets of lower Manhattan!


3 posted on 06/12/2012 6:46:48 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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But the growing income disparity is unacceptable. Those fat cats need to be taxed.


4 posted on 06/12/2012 6:46:59 AM PDT by Principled (It's not enthusiasm for Romney, it's grim determination to remove Hussein)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Throwing trash on the ground [including chewing gum] is the punishable offense. Being in possession of chewing gum is no problem. Not that this is much better... just sayin’...


5 posted on 06/12/2012 6:48:45 AM PDT by Principled (It's not enthusiasm for Romney, it's grim determination to remove Hussein)
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They may be prosperous, but I suspect a whole lot of these folks will not enjoy life there.

As soon as the SHTF there they will have Uncle Sam and the taxpayers/US military bailing them out.

6 posted on 06/12/2012 6:49:43 AM PDT by trailhkr1 (All you need to know about Zimmerman, innocent = riots, manslaughter = riots, guilty = riots)
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I just hope these guys know that if they drop a piece of chewing gum on the sidewalk, they’ll be jailed and flogged. This doesn’t happen on the streets of lower Manhattan!

Yeah but they'll be able to have a Big Gulp Dr. Pepper!

7 posted on 06/12/2012 6:49:49 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (FUMR)
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Good luck.

The world is gradually (no scratch that, rapidly) becoming blatantly anti-white.

Anti-white.

Forget all the biases built into (our) system. Every other system around the world is different and opposite. Without any of our nonsense. Without any biases for whiteness.

We’re it.

It is time now, for our side to get over the biases and start moving forward.

Now.


8 posted on 06/12/2012 6:50:55 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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They wont let you pee on the lifts either.


9 posted on 06/12/2012 6:52:17 AM PDT by skeeter
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True, true, true, lol!


10 posted on 06/12/2012 6:53:46 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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Yeah but they'll be able to have a Big Gulp Dr. Pepper!

Yep......and a cigarette.

11 posted on 06/12/2012 6:54:52 AM PDT by Right Brother
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But there is virtually no personal freedom there.

I've been there half a dozen times and loved the place.

12 posted on 06/12/2012 6:54:59 AM PDT by Doofer (Still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.)
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You love the place, as a place representing what it does.

Once the PRC becomes the dominant player, things will change there.

Bigtime.


13 posted on 06/12/2012 6:56:19 AM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (America doesn't need any new laws. America needs freedom!)
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To: miss marmelstein

I’m guessing these guys don’t walk much, much less drop gum on the sidewalk.


14 posted on 06/12/2012 6:56:43 AM PDT by stuartcr ("When silence speaks, it speaks only to those that have already decided what they want to hear.")
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Can you take up citizenship in Singapore and then just live in Paris? Or buy a house in the USA and live here for most of the year?


15 posted on 06/12/2012 6:57:01 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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I like it too Doofer. Great place.

Now, I don’t know what it’s like to be a resident. But it seems fine if you have work - except for the driving. That part skeered me.


16 posted on 06/12/2012 6:58:30 AM PDT by Principled (It's not enthusiasm for Romney, it's grim determination to remove Hussein)
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Or even on the elevators either ;)


17 posted on 06/12/2012 6:59:05 AM PDT by Principled (It's not enthusiasm for Romney, it's grim determination to remove Hussein)
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To: stuartcr

Believe me, Wall St. guys not only walk, they run. They run around in the Stock Exchange and jog through the streets of Manhattan. Everyone in NYC walks. And everyone chews gum, cracks it, and sometimes blow bubbles.


18 posted on 06/12/2012 6:59:19 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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I had a two-year assignment there and loved the place. There’s an awful lot of contempt here about bankers going to Singapore.


19 posted on 06/12/2012 7:00:01 AM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You clearly have never been to Hong Kong either, and know nothing about how or why the PRC leaves them to rule themselves.


20 posted on 06/12/2012 7:00:10 AM PDT by Teacher317 ('Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.)
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