Don’t believe? Look at our HDB price, it was jacked up from the resale by selling to the hong kongers and later they sold it back to other foreigners and Singaporean that create the scene today. When other Singaporean realised that they can make
a lot of money doing that, they themselves joined in the crowd and speculate thinking that they can do that better because they will eventually able to buy a new flat being a Singaporean.

////At the end of the day, even though there are many reasons to dislike current gov, some people may have no choice but to vote them in due to investments in properties at too high a price and need the tenants from “grow GDP at all costs.”///

Here is your answer. When someone ask Buddha, when will be the end of Buddhism and will human witness that? HE said: “when a leaf can be used as a tool for killing, man evil will be very much deeply rooted and therefore spell end of the Buddhism. But no one will witness that before man destroy the world together with him”.

You said it yourself, ” jobs, incomes and population that determine whether real estate will worth more than now 10 years or more later, will be undesirable for those owning rental properties”.

When the country population and wealth shrinked, who is left to buy the over priced properties? The economy system will collaspe even before reaching that stage. I do believe, PAP will be either long packed their bags along with the wealth and left the country to another or long driven down from their ivory seats by the people.

We all know foreigners are here to make money and leave the country eventually, at some point of the time, they will want to sell their properties off. But we know that real buyer will come from Singaporean, because they have no choice but to stay in our own country. However, due to ill control of properties and living standard, many rich Singaporean would have also left the country. Suddenily there is a over supply of properties, I am afraid many of their value will fall to worthless level.

Sg gov policies in favoring foreign talents/workers, but caused much unhappiness among citizens.

Decreased in fixed deposits interest rate, lower than inflation, caused people to seek avenues to grow their wealth, like recent stock market rally.

Recent changes to cpf, annuity no longer guarantees amount paid in future, people are afraid, better to use it to invest in something, cpf can be used to buy houses, and real estate is a good hedge against inflation but provided the price is not too high.

Wtih GLCs/TLCs owning stakes in the three main local banks should have the means to increase/decrease SIBOR. You may wonder why SIBOR is low now.

Given that Singapore citizens stood at 3 million with birth rate at 1.29 and decreasing, without favorable foreign talents/workers policies, the three main factors – jobs, incomes and population that determine whether real estate will worth more than now 10 years or more later, will be undesirable for those owning rental properties.

At the end of the day, even though there are many reasons to dislike current gov, some people may have no choice but to vote them in due to investments in properties at too high a price and need the tenants from “grow GDP at all costs.”

Other opposition parties and Singaporeans in general know that certain foreign talents/workers policies are detrimental to their futures and jobs but once again like the estate upgrading, smart for one but dumb for all.

////According to the survey of 153 Singaporean undergraduates at 15 top US universities, as many as 79 per cent prefer to work in US after they graduate. Only 18.1 per cent want to return to Singapore immediately after they complete their studies.//////

If you go to a roti prata shop and ask the customers how many of them like roti prat, guess what will be the answer?

79% is only an estimation and it is based on this survey of Singaporeans studying abroad who don’t want to return.

You cannot decide where you were born, BUT you can decide where you want to live. Nationalism is chavinism. The earth is my home, the universe, my country. We are all earthlings therefore, we should be able to wander about freely without borders. Even if the real world does not allow that to happen, we, as individuals, can lead that kind of lifestyle. Just globe-trotting around the world. We must shut out minds to national borders and auto-suggest to ourselves that it DOES NOT exist. Then we are truly FREE!!!

Never seen that in any other mature country.

Life is cheap there and peaceful

DO YOU KNOW. My whole family of 5 used water in a house in Malaysia and the bill was less than SGD$10?!?!?!?!?!!

Less than SGD$2, I can get such delicious food!

Except for the crime, it is like heaven to me there.

Not all who left Singapore are anti-Singapore. Most of us are still Singaporean at heart. It is a freedom of choice in style of living. Similarly you may like spicy food and I don’t or vice versa. We are just different in preference.

There is no necessity in drawing battle line and name calling. Hostility does not solve but creates more problems.

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” = Gandhi

GCT may called us Quitters but he was wrong. As a senior Statesman he should understand that there are others who prefer lifestyles that is not possible in Singapore. His own daughter proved that.

//////Does Mr. Brooks know that 79% of Singapore students after studying overseas do not return to Singapore? /////////

Is that a fact? Please enlighten.

Why get so hang up over one’s opinion. Obviously the chap that left SG is not happy with SG, and he is not about to sing praises for SG otherwise he would look like a fool for leaving SG.

When foreigner praising Singapore, many posters in TOC hamtam foreigner.
When foreigner spoke against Singapore, many posters in TOC sayang foreigner.
Same same lah