Well, your present leaders may call us quitters and other nasty
names - but if you can give me a few solid reasons why people are
not generally coming back for good after they have left, I'll be
willing to admit that our migration was for nought. No, at one
point in 1987, then-PM LKY was speaking to the Straits Times as to
why there is such a brain drain of young professionally qualified
SGPns...where I was studying, the SGP_consulate was trying to
attract SGP students back to SGP with a guaranty of a job in the
PSC and a bond. A bond?!?! Well, I guess they went home empty
handed.
And PM Lee decided that we were the quitters.
Some of my friends who are LTCs in the SAF, closing in on 45 yrs.
of age, can hardly wait to get their pink i/c back - and their
luggage is already packed, ready to sell off everything and leave -
just like that. Why? They gave and they gave and they gave - but
they get virtually nothing back, except two miserable crabs on
their shoulders. They lamented - alamak - should have left after
getting the second kit-kat bar! Just look at the number of ex-SAF
officers retiring in Perth..You will be surprised even these
defender of Spores are leaving in droves
Can you see? Even top ranked officers get frustrated after a while.
We are creatures of freedom, we're not slaves. If you have gotten
used to being a slave , then good on you - carry on singing
majullah singapura. if you want to know what a real democracy is
like, for gawd's sake, get out there and take a year to live in a
foreign western country like Oz or NZ, or even the STates. You
might just - surprise yourself.
not a stable argument - that richer people want to satisfy their
higher needs.
Some of us who emigrated early in life realised the fututre of SGP
was not going to be easy, some see it some don't. Some have parents
who saved up some don't, that's something we either were blessed
with parents who foresaw the future and shred their vision with us
and some didn't get to share a vision with their family lvoed ones.
And thats alright. For me and several of my siblings, we saw that
we cannot possibly be able to save and live comfortably in SGP as
it stands today. Living in a chicken 3 room coop - come on lah, you
know that the unit you "buy" with your CPF isn't really yours
right? WHen you pass on either you sell it through your lawyer or
you pas it on to your benefactor - but after 99 years, it has to be
returned to the PAP, regardless of what you did to upkeep the
unit.
We left not because of fear of living in an HDB coop - but because
ther is little leeway that the rulers here give us. They make laws
and rules to keep the people confused, suppressed, oppressed and
oblivious to a clear unabridged version of the whole truth. The
politicians who voted themselves into Parliament are not dumb fools
you know, although many of us easily write them off as a bunch of
fascist idiots. No ., they're more cunning and devillishly smarter
than anyone will ever give them credit for. And their game plan is
succeeding We who saw this taking place in the 80's saw there was
no way we'd be able to live like a democratic community. There's no
such thing as democracy in a socialistic society like SGP. We
didn't quit the system - the system didn't allow us to carry on
living there, more like. The system is set up such that either you
are paralyzed financially that you cannot budge or you're strapped
in by a set of rules that don't allow you to be the best you can
actually be. Fail your A levels and you're a failure FOREVER. No,
not so in the "western countries" ; here in my new homeland, we
have community colleges where adults can get student loans
(interest free) and get their degrees while working part-time. Can!
can be done. In SGP, fail once and you're doomed for life.
Its not all about getting ahead financially. There are other
factors such as freedom of movement - have you ever considered -
you must get an Exit Permit before you're allowed to trravel? This
is a form of unwanted control. Sure restrict us before NS so we
don't run away; but after we've paid our dues and they still want
to keep track of us? WHat the heck, thats ridiculous.
Another one is freedom of the press. you cannot buy or read certain
newspapers in SGP becsue it is deemed to be too democratic. The
ISPs monitor your internet surfing.
Money don't come easy, not even in our new homelands. We still
gotta work hard for it. But, the stress levels are not even a
fraction of what you experience in SGP. the SGP gov't loves telling
you folks what you should be doing with your lives - I mean , who
the bloody hell are they to tell you how you should live? You pay
and pay and pay till you die, and then they turn around and tell
you how you should live in SGP?
Yeah, we are forced to leave because the system don't work, and it
still doesn't believe it or not. And for you who stayed, sorry you
didn;t get the vision of the future from the 80's into the here and
now, you snoozed, you loose. thats the gist.
any where that you go to that has the absence of all that you
despise about the way the SGP gov't behaves - is better than
SGP.
NZ, Australia, Canada, USA, UK even Scandinavia any of these is
better.
No money to leave, yeah tough tough tough! just bite the bullet,
grin and bear it. Or migrate to Malaysia or Thailand. Only a train
ride North of the causeway.
My technical stream teacher retired a few years back -and moved to
Chiangmai, now helives like a king, and owns a bungalow by the lake
- he has emigrated, and his student - (ha!) showed him the ropes of
migration!
correct - the SGP gov't wants you to help their economy grow, but
no, they will not stretch out to help You the contributor grow. So
when you get into trouble, all they'll say is: Good luck!
But, if you cannot tahan the freedom you experience in a free
country after you get there, then I'll say to you : good luck !
- Work overseas because you can and it's fun!Later, you
may consider migration (or long term employment) because you
feel
settled in.
- No matter what, Singaporeans who desire bigger houses and big
cars etc will
always find a better deal in places like USA and Australia.
Singapore will always
be resource constrained.
honestly, if you have no regret emigrating, how does it matter
what the politicians call you?
I used to spend a lot of money on stock and shares and found it
didnt make any sense for me to continue, so I quit!! and put my
money as down payment for a property, a commitment which required
me to continue to pay and pay for many years. But today, I am very
happy with the money I made. To quit was a right decision.
tell us in what way you have made a right decision. No point
telling us how sucks this place is, but you are suffering where you
are now.
