Extracted from my email sent to me.

44 years of economic and material success have spawned some very strange behaviour among Singaporeans.

We spend so much to buy a house or flat, furnish it up like a palace, but spend our time outside, most of the time at work. And the maids are the ones enjoying the million dollar or multi million dollar assets.

Then we pay so much, the highest in the world, for a car only to park at home. Too expensive to drive, too many ERPs and car park charges to pay. And we are encouraged to park the car at home and take public transport, cheaper and more convenient.

And when Singaporeans travel, instead of seeing the places, they go shopping. The best part is that they head for the cheapest bargains, buying stuff that they could get in Singapore Chinatown or pasar malam, at even cheaper prices. And they are happy that they got a bargain.

And while the heartlanders are busy trying to make a life here, being told to bust off if they are not happy, which they cannot, the rich and presumably very happy and contented citizens are buying up properties overseas just in case they need to make that escape from paradise.

While many Singaporeans are thinking of jumping ship, or preparing to jump ship, hoards of new immigrants are rushing in to take their place in this paradise.

And to top it all up, they keep complaining about the government and all the policies that they found unpalatable, but come every election, they vote and return the (same) government to power.

Strange Singaporean behaviour indeed!

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