I'll tell you something ...... iskandar .... even if it
doesn't flop .... won't turn out to be the mega success they want
it to be ....
simple reason ....
labour costs ....
what a lot of people don't know is that skilled and unskilled
labour costs in johor baru is one of the highest in malaysia, even
comparing KL, for the simple reason that the causeway is only a
short hop away, and it's easy for people there to just hop over the
causeway to work, at higher wages and an awesome exchange rate, and
to work in johor baru earning ringgit.
if the biggest advantage of lower labour cost is negated, what
of the other stuff, the singaporean efficiency, the lack of red
tape, the hyper efficient logistics and shipping system, the
industrial tax breaks.
so they don't really need the high speed train to shaft
themselves in the ass.
