r/SingaporeR

Singapore is undoubtedly a difficult place to live as a single person. Housing isn’t achievable for most singles till 35, and your money simply doesn’t stretch to afford a fun single lifestyle due to the cost of living. Single women in SG are content with Singapores safety and security so their rationale to stay is understandable but I think there’s so much unfulfilled needs when it comes to single SG men. Cars are too expensive for most as a hobby to own, there’s a lack of access to cheap paid intimacy, there is no nature.

So to those single guys 30 and above, what incentives you everyday to go to work in SG just to afford a small resale/condo that you go home to alone?

with 500-600k for a small resale hdb in SG, you can easily buy a nice big apartment in Thailand and use the remaining 400k to stretch your lifestyle as a single person with no responsibilities

So what is holding you back from moving? Are you here for the hope of eventually finding someone in SG?

Here because you have to take care of your parents?

Here because you are slowly saving up for retirement in a different country?

Here because you can’t afford to move abroad and just accept your circumstances?

Here because computer games, Pokémon cards, good food and convenience is enough to make you happy?

Curious to know

How important is working non-stop?

From the time when I was young kid, I remembered that I already started doing part-time jobs in retail, sales etc. and earning like $7, then slowly as I grew up, switching part-time jobs and earning slightly more, like $10+.

I studied in university and after finishing my exams, before I even received my results, I was already confirmed and employed by a firm. I have been working non-stop since, never taken a break, never quitted.

I started investing in stocks since I was in University (with my savings from part-time jobs) and after I started working full-time, I also deposited some lump sums into my brokerage and invested more.

Today, I feel that I'm in a very financially comfortable position, ample amount of savings and investments, and I am able buy a house as a single if I liquidate all my investments. Of course, I don't liquidate now because I want to grow my investment portfolio even larger and eventually have passive income paying off my mortgage in the future.

I realize that working non-stop allows your money to have the "compounding" effect and this creates a gap that gets larger over time compared to people that took a very long time to find a job after graduation, or got laid off or resigned and took a long break.

Why I'm thinking of moving out:

1. I work in CBD but stay in the west side. I'm thinking of renting a single room or even studio for myself but from what I see, something like Tanjong Pagar Icon would cost me minimally $2k a month which is pretty expensive. If I rent in CBD, I can reduce my travel time to work significantly.

2.Activities after work: Staying in CBD means I can do more activities that are all mostly situated in the central and still be able to reach home afterwards much earlier. I find that if I do activities in the central now and travel back home, I will reach home quite late (almost 12 or 1). I also noticed that the west side has almost no activities or interesting stuff to do at all. Everything fun is mostly concentrated in central or east.

3. Able to focus more on developing myself: I feel that I need my own space to really concentrate on working on my career/side hustles/social life/self-improvement.

I don't think it's fair. I'm happy to help my family when I can, but it shouldn't feel like I owe them a lifelong debt just because they raised me. In my case, my parents especially my mom seem to expect me to always have money to give, as if I can just magically produce it whenever they ask. It makes me feel like I'm valued more for what I can provide financially than as a person. I want to support them out of love, not because I'm expected to "pay back" the cost of raising me. I've reached a point where I've given so much that I barely have any savings left, yet they still expect more.

Any Singaporeans here in 40s migrated out for slower pace life? To which country? How you doing now?

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They are rushing to the afterworld is it? Lol

Was eavesdropping a conversation by a group of boomers at the kopi shop.. 50% of conversation is all hokkien vulgar words and the other 50% is bragging whatever shit they have!

Wondering how serious this issue is becoming in Singapore.

Meta had retrenched a lot of their staff recently, replacing them with aggressive AI automated systems that ban accounts outright without any humans doing moderation.

Over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed more people having Instagram accounts suddenly disabled by the AI, and they can't do anything about it.

There are already subreddits like InstagramDisabledBans and FixMyInstagram being flooded with complaints from people around the world who say they were wrongfully banned and could not get proper human review.

I also saw a case where a Singaporean was even accused of "child sexual exploitation" and he had to file a court claim to clear his name because before that, Meta ignored him. After the claim, they restored the account right away.

This is worrying, because ordinary users and businesses should not have to go through legal channels just to get a wrongly disabled account reviewed.

I’m trying to understand how widespread this is in Singapore. Does anyone know someone in Singapore whose IG was suddenly disabled even though they did nothing wrong?

If anyone from Meta Singapore is reading this, I really hope this gets more attention before it snowballs.

A sea of grumpy old folks? Unsubstainable cost of living? Robots make up half of our workforce?