how wrong you are. speak to the malaysian PR. alot of them are in middle income or low income jobs and even them the low class labourers and technicians have NO wish for singapore PR or citizenship. they wish to retire in malaysia where you can survive on 1-2k ringgit. not in songapore. people are not so dumb. ask them and they tell you house, car, petrol, food, practicallyy everything is 3 times cheaper and they have a sense of belonging despite the garmen treatment of them. one of them even show me an advert where you can buy a new small car in malaysia for $28K, malaysian ringgit ie <S$12K . one corolla in singapore can buy you 5 of the same in malaysia!!! the professionals have alot gone back home as the costs of living oin singapore has made the higher wages not worth the trouble or hassle. these are being replaced by the Pinoy and ah nehs who have alot of cultural difference and are rough and rude and arrogant, that's why the unhappiness. at least the malaysian professionals are 80 -90% simmilar to us as they have the same culture and speak dialects and share the same food and incliniations, that's why alot of us treat them almost as brothers or sisters gievn the historical baggage. Not for the ah nehhs and pinoys. alot of the professionals are fake with false and dubious qualifications or degrees. in my company we caught a few and fired them off immdeiatley. my souurces in phillipines tell me at least 30% of all their certificates are fake or worthy of low quality tolet paper!!!! go ahead. ask your tech or manager why he did not apply for UK or US and they tell you crap stories. reason is alot of them have tried and were rejected ot kicked out because of aboove. anyway at the end of the day it all make sense and karma so you get what you sow, just don't be so blind and believe all the crap you read in msm