Quote from kandal:
"Singapore property is pricey but I should imagine it compares very favourably with Monaco. "
It does, and even to HK, I checked recently and one could rent villas in Singapore for abt half the price than in HK. One only get a smallish apartment in Monaco for this price ( I would prolly prefer Monaco over the other cities discussed here, at least because of its climate and location, but there are other issues, Monaco itself is rather boring, small and cramped )
"It's ridiculous to suggest the only attraction is beaches. There's the excitement of cities as diverse as Bangkok, Saigon, Jakarta, Phnom Penh and others too numerous to mention; the world's greatest historical site at Angkor Wat."
To each its own, I'm fairly bored with South East Asia, closest places atractive to me from Singapore are Macau/HK/China, I do apreciate the fact Singapore is largely chinese, worth of note is chinese singaporean very often speak fluent mandarin as well as some chinese dialect.
"On the subject of freedom of speech they are not perfect but in general the judicial system is totally clean(quite a novelty for SE Asia)."
My impression as well.
" The weather can be extremely humid but the temperature never reaches the absurd heights of summer in Dubai, "
I've been only twice to Dubai for short periods but isn't Dubai very hot and very humid, which allegedly makes coping with weather there even more difficult ?
Again immigration policies in Singapore have toughened up lately, better make sure first that one can manage to move to Singapore before wondering ad libitum wether it's a nicer place than Dubai.
