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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by hatenberg on Sunday August 02, 2020 @05:31AM (#24027519)
Nothing shows the ignorance of most mof the western world about modern Asia most than falling back to 27 year old articles at every time a place is mentioned. I guess we all need to reference Reagan's Star Wars program whenever we talk about the US to get an equivalent feel.

As someone living here (queue US coworkers 'why would you move to China?'), that article has not aged well.

Children are so so much better supported here than the US its not even funny. Public libraries, lavish playgrounds, sports activities, public transport (yes your 8 year old can take the metro to school, safely), science programs, free museums, ...

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by ValentineC on Sunday August 02, 2020 @09:59AM (#24028743)
Singaporean here. If anything, one reason I'd say that Singapore isn't like Disneyland now is because its "management" has lost touch with the ground, and things aren't as well-maintained as Disneyland.

My estate (a ruling-party-managed one, too) is showing its age, with plenty of rats and cockroaches running about at night.

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Re:The Fantasy and the Cyberpunk Futurism of Singapore by hatenberg on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:58PM (#24034092)
Uhm, its the tropics? My non hdb property has those guys and there is nothing you can do about it outdoors.

But then again people probably expect some foreign worker to come and hunt them individually while taking to the internet to complain about there being so many foreign workers ;)

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