Singapore is a crony capitalist plastic paradise. You won’t find a more first world country - easy when your about the size of a large US city. Their idea of socialism is to subsidize corporations to hire people and tax cars 500% and use the money to finance public transportation for the “workers”.
A $20K car in the US is $40K and you have to finance a $100K Certificate in your note that allows you to drive the car for 10 years (then its shipped out of the country).. so a $20K car is $140K with a 10 year car payment.
They pride themselves on cleanliness - Chewing gum and eating on the subway are illegal, but Lots of roaches, ants and bad air days if you look close.
The government keeps a tight leash on things. Probably 30% of population is muslim (mainly indonesians and indians but some from the ME - business owners/capitalist), but I wouldn’t be surprised if they kicked your whole family out of the country if a member went full jihadi.
Mandatory military service and they love “stuff” so not much of a chance of them surrendering to terrorism Obama style.
Good Lord. I had no knowledge of any of that. Thanks.
As Peter Drucker, a world ranking economist, correctly asserted more than 2 generations ago, Singapore (along w/Hong Kong and Taipei) remain testaments to the free market impulses of the overseas Chinese; who rejected the Marxist fantasies of Mao and Zhou enlai. Instead they embraced the ideas of Malthus, Ricardo and Smith; thereby lifting their people out of poverty and setting a standard for the rest of the developing world as to how wealth is created. Try getting real.
Where to they ship the cars?
I lived in LA at the time I visited, but I felt like a country bumpkin shopping in Singapore. Outstanding shop and incredible service.
I am still cooking out of my Singaporean cookbooks, but man, I wish I could be there, just to eat and eat and eat and eat. Delicious and imaginative cooking straits born cuisine. (Although, I hated the food in Malaysia, maybe it was the flies, roadside and in the cities like Kuala Lumpur, although, I guess things have changed in the decades I have visited.