Go to RedHill and see the 1-room flats.
Not to mention,
There is something else,
In Singapore, there is a clever system of "outsourcing
poverty".
The Bangladeshi workers live a very poor life, and live in
bunkers / dorms with spartan conditions.
This is a clever way of assigning poverty to a temporary foreign
group. They come for a while, then go. But while they are here,
they live a poor life. They walk on the streets and people see
them. Even though they are not integral part of Singapore society,
but there is some impacts at the margins.
Perspective differentiation at play. Our bus stop and road side
is a heaven for bangadesh and some indians from poor state of their
countries, we move them in with residents, all start to complain
like the serangoon case, we move them into dormitory, people like
you start to claim outsouring or diversion of poverty. In my
opinon, in an economy sense, these peoples come and help us build
our economy physically, added the drained physical strength that
our own workforce is depleting, I have alway respect them, poor or
not poor, as long as they work, no rob, no snatch, no make money
illegally, we should welcome them. And if you study the condition
and statistics of crime rates for the past few years, Local and PRs
are committing much much more layman offences such as cheating,
molesting, raping, corruption etc etc than a foreign worker, in
another words, they are more well behave, just the look seem to
scare you off.
