NO OPTION?
Can't get PR offshore means no option?
I see many mexicans and Filipinos on work permit here. Work a few years in laborer type jobs later can apply for PR.
There is NO SUCH THING AS NO OPTION.
No right or wrong just free to choose. But be prepared to pay the price.
You see, this is exactly what happen in Singapore to Singaporean. The salary in Singapore is not too low to make you leave but not too high to make you rich and take a laid back attitude. Singapore also tie you down with CPF, property, emotional baggage, family commitment, social expectation and a host of others that just making it hard to leave.
Yes, anyone can leave as we have an open border, but there is a price to pay for leaving, and not everyone has the same make up physically and mentally to ready themselves to leave.
To me, my family circumstances leave me only the option to slug it out outside Singapore to be with my family, and I am okay with that as long as I can get my wife and kid back. But I will not judge others who are not prepared to leave their comfort zone (albeit stressful) in Singapore. After all these people are those that are sacrificed to make Singapore rich and ultimately making those who invest in the country rich.
As said, not everyone is prepared to leave and paying the price. To each, his own.