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I wonder if anyone retires in bintan. i know many sg people live in batam. personally bintan has a much better sea view than batam. but things in the hotel area are expensive. probably that is a nearest place where one can enjoy white sands. I saw a sg developer marketing 25 year leasehold...

the living standard in hk is really pathetic and pitiful for most commoners. they may enjoy the convenience and high living cost. but for commoners, their biggest plight, like in other countries, is that they do not have enough cash after they fork out a large portion for installments. so few...

consumer electronics not doing well. do not know when it will recover. recently i had several friends who were retrenched from a well known mnc. the whole team sacked as the mnc is going to close down its sg operation by the end of this year. all senior r&d engrs. one guy i know 20 years...

it makes no sense to compare sg to malaysia or johor. compare what? like compare sg to china. you will find millions of poor people in china. some are destitute in the remote rural areas. but if you go to beijing. shanghai. shen zhen, which are big cities in a developing country. you...

Sigh. i think that i myself do not mix around with the rich people. 8 out of 10 of my colleagues are PhDs merely bookworms or nerds. some have a sg condo loan of sgd 1.2mil and feel under tremendous pressure. others have no option but to buy a house in jb to prepare forretirement.. some are...

that is why it is advisable to get married and have kids earlier. say if you have kids around 30, by the time retrenched say 50/55, kids already grown up and go to univ. if you do not have a big loan, you can use the sg rental plus cpf to retire anywhere. if in jb, kids no need to run...

several friends are retrenched from an electronics mnc recently. more retrenchment will come for another big electronics mnc in july. all are pmet in 40s. research engineers. postgraduates. not factory staff. those in 50s already asked to go. anyway, the good thing is more manpower...

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Frodo has a landed house. i think that is why he does not need to worry too much. near permas gng landed don't come cheap. there are only a few gng communities. nowadays the developers sell semi d in gng for rm1.6 mil near permas. no facilities inside. plus reno around rm1.7 to 1.8 mil...

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/4-steps-retrenched-pmets-must-160000959.html pmet retrenchment statistics last year. 70% of retrenched pmet switched to service industry after 2.37 months. is it an exaggeration to say that it ain't a real problem after looking through the article?

why some people suggested dumping and cutting losses? rm 1 mil amounts to 300 k sgd. not enough to buy a small kitchen in beijing and shanghai. yet can get a decent condo or terrace house and a new car in jb to retire comfortably when one is retrenched earlier in 50s,which is nowadays highly...

what makes huawei successful is that they do everything that ericsson did and at a fraction of cost. and that is because china has vast land and cheap labor. in electronics market, labor/production cost is of utmost importance. with automation and artificial intelligence progressing by...

a few weeks ago there is an article on the newspaper.... somone bought a luxury condo @ sentosa at 10 mil sgd and two or three years later cut losses by selling at 5mil sgd. A loss of 5 mil sgd materialized in two years for that person. it must be a super rich investor who chose to buy into...

sigh..but this is true. only rich people can afford to retire comfortably here. for most people either those having only a hdb or those still having to pay a big amout of condo loan, jb seems a viable option to retire if not really keen on pushing trolley at supermaekets or airport after...

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/living-without-money-nearly-half-082400100.html one reason that there is an oversupply is that the malaysian and china developers seriously overestimate the buying power of the average households. maybe they estimate that overall at least half of...

Retirement does not mean you do not have to work. but it means you do not have to do jobs like cleaners or security guards. actually for those with expertise in one area or another and has gone through years of rigorous training, it does make one happy and feel fulfilled if having an...

hehe.....i think you are talking about dr c. some of my friends know him personally though i do not. maybe i am still young. that is just one side of the story. dr c is not a univ professor but he is indeed from standford. and he worked as a taxi driver not because he needs money..but he...

http://business.asiaone.com/news/higher-skilled-workers-make-bulk-layoffs High skilled workers make up the bulk of layoffs in 2015. 43.9% are degree holders. 64% are above 40. Manufacturing moving out and closing down. this is not a good thing. middle aged high tech workers should be a...

I ask my friend. he told me that forest city is being very heavily advertised on china media. everywhere online and newspapers. This year even the lantern festival show on central TV is named after this project. it seems that many mainlanders are interested. People in the north china can...

Rich people certainly like living in Sg. For most people, living in Sg not only makes one feel safe, but also feel atas. With all those magnificent buildings around, slowly one gets a feeling that he possesses these things or at least becomes a part of these buildings. many people living in...