Singapore’s population rises to historic high of 6.04 million. A lot of locals are complaining online that the country has become too crowded. I share my thoughts as a foreigner from Japan and is it really a problem? What can locals and foreigners do to live a comfortable life in Singapore?
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00:00 why foreigners are moving to singapore
05:30 why locals are unhappy
09:18 are foreigners stealing local’s jobs?
10:33 are foreigners causing trouble?
12:42 pros of increase of population
14:37 what can foreigners do to assimilate?
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W.r.t the complaints towards foreigners that don’t follow the local rules, same has been happening in Japan.
I have been living in Japan for many years and now I feel that anti-foreigner opinions are gradually increasing.
Japanese people tend to expect oreigners to follow their local rules and behave like how the local ppl do.
But you know in reality it’s difficult for tourists and expats to do so perfectly.
This gap is making things worse and worse.
The issue of our govt being tone-deaf and selective to what they want to listen is infuriating.
I’m currently a NSF at Sembawang Camp, just one bus stop away is a dormitory for foreign workers. Every morning I head to camp I have to walk past a drainage that is littered by these workers, several times I personally saw them doing it. I strongly feel that if these workers want to work here, they must abide to our rules and law. This isn’t India where they can just throw their trash at any drainage/canal/beach
Unpopular opinion, don’t think SG is as crowded or dense as other big cities like Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai etc… But I do agree with most of the others here that we have no where else to escape to during the weekends as SG is just too small and the nature areas are equally as crowded (Bukit Timah, Coney Island, Serangoon Island etc…). We can’t rent a car and go for a long drive without getting stuck in jams across the causeway and in JB. By the time we reach Malaysia’s countryside, it is 2-3 hours of claustrophobic experience.
I believe many Singaporeans just like the OPTION of having a place where they can escape from the hustle and bustle, the heat and feeling of being pushed around (we already experience it at work). We blame foreigners as a way to relief stress, just like how other nation also blame foreigners for their problems.
Save money, move abroad.
Singapore will get worst with more flooding of foreigners, they watch handphones and talk loudly, fighting for seats with local, taking away good jobs from local talents, our local breed whole-life hard-earned stressed n sweat c p f money are not return sooner yet our small island population Singapore ministers and president are world highest paid salary despite no natural disaster
Interesting video for sure. Two things you missed out, in my opinion. One, the rate of increase. A gentler increase, especially in the 2000s, and with more popular support, would have provoked less of a backlash. Two, isn’t Japan the archetype counter-example to Singapore’s policy of immigration-driven growth? What are the downsides to the Japanese way, and is it completely unsustainable? More discussion, and less stereotyping, is definitely helpful.
We don’t hate but do dislike rude and uncultured individuals coming to Singapore on visa exemptions, it creates various problems for us.
It’s not that local dont want to work in those industries, it is bcoz that pay package. FT can except it bcoz they r coming here to earn $, thereafter left to their homeland when they earn enough. SG is our home, where can we go ? Recently there is a transport company hiring drivers with attractive pay package, didnt the local was attracted.