Migrating

last SG · 2013-04-18T19:53:32+00:00

Have been thinking about that since my friend told me to move to Perth .....He moved to Perth at late 90's .

Poolman SG

I want to see datas from government to tell us recent years how many renoun their citizenship and migrated out ?

They dun dare one . Cos it is just too many .

And many are middle class famililes .

A small family , like my friend , as long as business , the Australian accepted u in .

It is cheaper to live in Australia then in Singapore .

High wages , cheaper to live .

Better quality of life . They just pay taxes , the rest let the government deal with it .

Dun read too much Straits about racist thing in Australia

Poolman SG

Not so soon lah .....

But i wont die in Singapore , that's for sure . I will die outside Singapore .

Poolman SG

When someone like me has got those desire to leave ......

there is something wrong , either in me , or something wrong with the system here .

bowah SG

Not so soon lah .....

But i wont die in Singapore , that's for sure . I will die outside Singapore .

you mean die at sentosa?

Just_do_it_lah SG

to get their citizenship...

they based on your contribution by profession(s)....

so, what r u going to contribute to their economy ?

drive taxi ?

sacredspirits SG

hmm…. I think every country has its pros and cons…. yes, in UK where I m now, I don’t have to pay money to see ‘loh goon’.... but then hor, 30% of my hard earn money goes to government here (who has led the country into recession!!)... good thing here is that I don’t have to b workaholic like many friends in singapore…. dont hv to bring work home…. aiyah… everywhere it’s ‘I see u good, u see me good’ lah…. yes, my hubby n I can afford 2 cars here (well…. second-hand ones lah&#8230 Wink .. but I think dispensable income seems more in Singapore leh…. a Singapore friend here also say… in UK want to watch movie also must think twice (expensive leh!)... in Singapore, no need to think even once!

I don’t know about Australia though….

well…. at the end of it, it all depends on what u want in life…. I miss my friends n family back home… I m still holding on to my Singapore passport…. only reason why I m here is my BBC hubby….. I can understand why some people migrate to another country for long and still want to go back Singapore…. it’s the memories, the family, the friends, the food, the singlish even…..

bowah SG

When someone like me has got those desire to leave ......

there is something wrong , either in me , or something wrong with the system here .

There is definitely something wrong with you, your inner self is not stable, you alway look at others as greener, friends or relatives more brighter both in look and earning, or that your neighbour door is alway more beautiful then yours no matter how your change or decorate it. This is call inferiority complex mentality while presenting a superior complexity nature. And all this got to do with too much egos and pride at stake.

Your inferiority is very complex, but you never want to show it to others because at the exterior, you want to show superiority, like you are the chief, but as you age, you somehow find your superiority deteriotriating, and those relatives or friends had found better pasture and life than you, a TD, so to speak, therefore, that inferior of feeling a sense of failure start to exist as time goes by.

The antidote is therefore, be simple, dun think so much, just drive happily, meet us happily, go home happily, make family happily with your love, and you are still our great Chief without any string attached. Be kind to yourself, we, at such age, should not torture ourselve further, live, work, old and die, no one can escape this road.

bowah SG

I don’t know about Australia though….

....even the char kway tiao, the laksa, the chicken rice and fish soup...hehehe..it occur to me when I was sailing for a few years during my young time, before sailing, never miss a single thing here, everything is boring, once gone sailing for a year only, start to miss even my neighbourer's..

Ct2220 SG

you mean die at sentosa?

Fish La Sentosa Lim Kopi Sibei Gui.

bowah SG

Actually sentosa and ubin is still consider singapore, so, the best option is OPL, I use to go when doing voyage repair by taking boat from Marina south, OPL mean Out of Port Limit, it is international, no man own. Our chief can just jump, nobody will give a dime

sacredspirits SG

I think your chief will b happy just lim kopi on a boat at OPL…. simple life… no govt, no tax…. ;P

Ct2220 SG

Actually long ago, My wife and me did talk about when we get old, where to retired.

Definitely not Singapore, BUT not becuase of those reason Poolman mention. It's because we like to have a much slow pace life.

She hope to retired in Tasmania.

I hope to retired in 丽江

But at the end, we still feel that Singapore is the BEST,

BECAUSE 我生在这里，我长在这里，这里是我的家，我的根在这里。

Ct2220 SG

sacredspirits SG

Lijiang!!!! Was there more than 10 years ago and I fell in love with it too!!! Smile

hmm…. interesting… I wouldn’t know where I would like to retire….

I once told a friend that I can finally fully understand my grandfather who passed away why he insisted going back to his homeland, China, to spend his last few years there…. he came to Singapore to work and though it became his home and where he raised his family, the memories of his own homeland will always be with him…..

少小离家老大回，乡音无改鬓毛催。儿童相见不相识，笑问客从何处来

Rbs70 SG

I just couldn't believe a so call reputable chief will come out all those naive posts.......

Migrating and Retirement, please decide which 1 you looking at......

Citizenship and PR, please decide also.......

don't waste our time, posting like a kina.......

I think the 1 who have been reading too many ST is chief himself.......

Anyway, I strongly recommend Darwin in Australia for chief........

more than hundred over years ago, the whole city was totally submerge in sea water........

than they rebuilt the whole city.......

tia gong it will happen again in hundred years time which is now........

bowah SG

Australia is riding on a gd fortune because of it trading with China, the chinese need those raw materials and food stuffs from australia to support their growing economy, so if you ask me if the aussie will welcome a china chinese or a singaporean chinese like our chief status. I think, i do not need to provide an answer.

And bear in mind that aussies are decendant of brit prisoners.

Why not just get a night guard job at tuas south facing the strait sea, at nite can read books, watch seagul, fishing, play with stray dogs and yet can also surf the net..

Ct2220 SG

If my son are going to Uni , i will sent him to australia , cert lousy nevermind . Once he started to be in aussieland , then good liao .

The reason tht My girl friend (Singaporean) and Her hunband (Malaysian) leave home (Singapore and Malaysia ) to Australia study and stay there, It's totaly same as what you think for your son now.

Many many years laters (Maybe oso 18 Years), Likely your son will like them becuase of their children (Your Grand Children) and return back Singapore.

BUT。。。。。。。by then, don't know whether your son can make it to come back to Singapore or not.

Taxilim88 SG

The key word here is Migrating......

Singapore don't practice dual citizenship, you have to choose......

So you decided to migrate, but you still love your own country? No, it don't work that way.......

but if due to work committment, I'm posted oversea, I miss my country, that's a different anticipation......

my home grown country, my loyalty is there, quoting company level example don't really match........

so I repeat, if you decided to give up Singapore and MIGRATE, please go.......

Migrating? I got no comments cos very emo one. I am talking about getting PR. The Singapore today and 20 yrs later will be very different. Give yourself an alternative. You can live in either country freely. Sinkapore too ex., stay Australia. Dun like Australia, stay Singapore lor. Simple what.

Singaporeans of the future must be prepared to uproot and find work overseas. Some will settle there. Why? Because there will be many university graduates competing for jobs here. Unless they want to become TDs lah. My time, 5% to 10% of NS boys were A level holders. Today, that figure is 70%. 10 years later??

Last time, riflemen all Hokkien Peng. Today, u got riflemen who are A level holders and who will be studying Law at Cambridge University after NS.

Those FTs who come here get PR are smarter than a lot of Singaporeans. Don't be fixated with loyalty for country kind of thing and block out everything else. This type of mentality only belongs to the North Koreans. Even China has changed.

And had my grandfather remained fiercely loyal to China, I would not be having a good life here today.

Taxilim88 SG

sacredspirits SG

when I went back for CNY earlier this year, with the ‘Singapore 2030’ debate, I had wondered…. while attracting more people into Singapore, maybe it will mean that more Singaporeans in the future will be more educated, more ‘globalised’... and so will want to get out….

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