To the type of person that dreams of living in a small space with little more than a laptop and a remote job, with all the necessary infrastructure for life externalized, Singapore looks pretty appealing for basically all the reasons you stated.

Good economy, but also good food which matters when you don’t plan to cook for yourself. Good transit infrastructure going anywhere you need or desire to go, so you don’t have to have a car. One level of government, so reduced complexity dealing with all those annoying things that hackers think are stupid and dumb, like taxes. Only thing it is really missing is the kind of critical mass of hackers that would make it into Y Combinator in City-State form.

How come you call your fiend a hacker? Ever since the late 90's the term has largely been co-opted by the "iamverysmart" type of people.

Thanks. I've seen that too but never had a fitting term.