How many out of the 3000 will eventually take up Singapore citizenship and sink their roots here permanently? The figure includes those who are going overseas to work and do not know when they will return. I can bet that most of them are here simply for the overseas work experience or getting a better pay for the temporary overseas posting by their companies.
In contrast, most of those leaving Singapore will not return to raise their families in Singapore.
This Johnsg choose to be blind. Walk around sinkapore and you will wonder where are those Ozzie families that he talked about.
All I see are 3rd world economic refugees. During the 80s and early 90s, a lot of westerners would consider sg home but would never give up their other citizenship. Now all these people are leaving in droves. I couldn't conceive for an instant as to why westerners want to give up their government pension for a pigeon hole and a dead end life in peesai.
Most western countries have some kind of safety net for old people, why would they stay in peesai? It's plain to see that peesai neglects its own elderly.
Handout, what handout? Their goberments say pay this amount of tax now and get it back in the form of pension later.
Straightforward and simple. Not like peesai way of bullshitting the use of gst for the poor. How much? When? Who? What? We will never know. Why? Bullshit thats why.
Going back to immigration...
Look at Harry's bar, used to be ang moh hangout. Now is an ah neh crib.
Even rich chinese indonesians that I know in school would never call sg home. Malaysian that were PRs were forced to take up SG citizenship. Some did and now regretted. Most malaysians even the chinese ones would never give up their m&d passports.
People like johnsg are assholes and just plain stupid to ignore the fact that the shit hitting the fan is happening right in front of their eyes.
Still want to pretend that places like OZ and the US are worst off.