My sentiment alike. The best place to chill out nowadays..home is the best place..otherwise every damm place I know is crowded…

Agreed. It’s amazing how those who make suggestions to pack people into smaller and smaller spaces (trains, housing etc) are the very people who can afford NOT to be confined to those spaces. Whatever happened to empathy?

For one Prof.Glaeser, I am sure there are ten more who think otherwise.By the way Prof., why not consider taking up Singapore citizenship!

I left Singapore a long time ago but it wasn’t so much for the reasons that Robin mentioned.

I lost my qualification to migrate when i have been unemployed for a long time.
Skilled migration to a certain nice country requires that a person be employed at least for the last 18 months or something like that.

talk about caught between a rock and a ….

Yes, there’s just so many foreigners here now. In the train, I seem to be hearing more and more ppl conversing in vietnamese, myanmar, indo & other undecipherable language. It is little wonder that our country is so packed !

Well..the only way to make them wake up…..VOTE WITH YOUR CONSCIENCE AND TELL THEM ENUFF IS ENUFF! I will not be afraid to declare my position:

SINGAPOREANS FIRST in all policies!

I foresee more influx as time goes on.
I also do not expect this policy to change in next decade at least.
I think we should be prepared mentally to accept our common destiny.

Prof Glaeser, care to swap your passport with my shiny red singaporean one?

MRT should have staff boarding during peak hours to check if young adults are dozing at seats reserved for Oldies,etc. Lots of them just parked on reserved seats and pretend to sleep. Even passengers in SAF uniforms are guilty of this.
How about a weekly photo contest to select the
Champion Pretending Sleeping Bodies and publish them weekly in STOMP !
The winning photographers will be rewarded with ten dollars top-up of their MRT
cards,

As long as the sweaty smelly hungry hordes keep behind the Istana walls and walls of certain expensive bungalow houses in the Bukit Timah and Nassim areas, our highly elevated (financially, jurisprudentially and financially) mandarins will push pens on paper, utter nonsensical statements from their bully pulpits to inflate the Chinese and Indian populations in Singapore. They so believe that Singapore has to have a critical mass of these races to keep Singapore dynamic. So all ye “pinky natives”, just bear with it and grin!

#5

Unemployed Talent.

Don’t give up. I know of people who were in the same predicament but still succeeded in getting residency in that certain nice country. They went on student visas, finished their courses and then applied. When there is a will, there is a way.

Recently the PC Show (or was it IT show ??)was arranged to be expo’d in multiple floors. This I suspect was to avoid the very frightening claustrophobical situation in the last show last year ???

The current infrastructure is already not accomodating well . I mean feel the congestion at orchard and places like bugis.

With the continued influx, the only way is to expand public places like the MRT. But this will cost too much and so I do not think this will be done.

The city developer should factor in mind the congestion we are experiencing. I hope they already have a plan.

shopping is no longer a relaxing time. when i take MRT, I expect to stand. when I take the bus, I expect to tolerate people coughing and wear stinky shirts.
when I go foodcourt, I expect to see chope tissue papers because people could not secure a seat just to eat. when I go home from work, I expect jams. when I want to rest on weekends at home in my hdb, I expect noise like organised events , dong dong chang, renovation work, trucks reving the engines, chaotic birds, and mosquitoes that some are Aedes. When I near retirement age, I no no what to expect. JB, Mc donalds, help me!