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I have stayed for 12 years in Singapore since my JC days. I still recall taking 3 different buses every day to commute to my junior college in Bukit Batok and another 3 buses back. Imagine the hectic I went through during those tumultuous years. Plus the fact that I had to find my own food, do my own laundry at the tender age of 18, still a teenager. I had to study hard and it seems the syllabus there is much more compared to other countries. Working life also has its pressures. At the end of 2000, I was quite stressed out and finally came back to recuperate in Penang. Singapore is a good place to earn money but not to stay there for long. Most of the yuppies there power dress from top to bottom but hardly have money in the wallets. They wear branded clothes to join the Joneses and spend a lot of money. At the end of the month, their bank accounts are almost used up and live from paycheck to paycheck. If you can take the heat, then by all means work there in the Lion City but you will be competing with the best brains from China, India, Malaysia, etc.