another observation coming from me, in Singapore (or in Hongkong) you might as well go all the way to purchase a nice car (given you can afford to shell out the money) and by only then the COE will become just another piece of paper...
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Originally Posted by reallyreallyslow
Good pedestrian facilities because we can be fined for jaywalking. 
Public transport system was good until a few years back. Nowadays the public transport is the biggest issue our dear transport minister has. It got so bad that the CEO of the train operator had to step down. Of course, it was expected when the whole can of worm, from operating the public transport by listed companies in near monopoly environment, was popped open.
Yup, due to the COE level, more luxury cars are registered. BMW and Merc are top sellers here. This is a place where even highly educated middle class is struggling to make a living because of poor governance. On paper, the country looks like it is flourishing and booming. In reality, our wages are depressed and inflation is crazy. Inflation was over 5% last month. The above is coming from someone who just bought a car at 200k usd two months ago. So it is really not only the poors that are badly affected by poor governance here. |