Yeah, I think their job is so tough. I couldn't do that kind of tough labouring work in the tropical heat.

Yes and they often live in terrible conditions e.g. un air conditioned shipping containers

@@Gubers keep your communism out of singapore please. Those workers chose to work there because its better than china, they can quit whenever. If they have a work visa, theyd be sent back to china. They know working the jobs that are the lowest and for cheap can help them get enough money to live in singapore permanently or send money back to china

@fadly razali. Atleast you arent one of those ppl living in sg complaining and making expats from bangladesh etc look so bad. Salutes

Bittzen stop defending Singapore for treating small workers roughly and underpaid

haven't seen C for a looong time now. Many were Cs back in the days. Now I see that most are Bs. Only from what I noticed

Yes absolutely. The hygiene rating is also given according to the type of shop / establishment it is. E.g. McDonalds / KFC (Fast Food) will always be A. Hawker seldom gets a B and is usually C. Foodcourts in shopping centre are mostly B.

Even hawkers rarely get C’s now, as far as I’ve seen

This needs to be noticed!

D in Singapore is like A in most of the rest of the world. Eat with abandon.

no, it's because that's normal in their culture

Gothus Touchstone Singularity did you just called “underpaid” the people of one of the countries with the HIGHEST gdp per capita IN THE ENTIRE WORLD? You have high standards my friend

@@gabriell7640 Singapore may have the 2nd highest gdp per capita, however their minimun wage is very low, around $4 US per hour.

Matt Rogerson dude Singapore doesn’t have a minimum wage, it has workfare. www.todayonline.com/commentary/why-workfare-works-better-singapore-minimum-wage

I live here. Don't need to defend Singapore's exploitation of foreign workers. Its true. They are not well taken care of considering the high cost of living.

The public tpt that you mention, esp the MRT, has gotten from bad to worse. And it isn't yet ancient like London Tube.

+Kiran Cotting I mention both of them in other videos!

Lived in singapore for 16 years before moving to Switzerland for 4 years. Both are extremely similar countries, expensive countries yet can be cheap if you know where to go for groceries.

yep super expensive to reduce negative externalities for a small country where roads are really congested.

ymhktravel another complaining Singaporean. Why don't you just be grateful that you even have public transport. It's not like it breaks down every day. Smh

We have it in South Africa too, where you call anyone uncle or aunti.

Technically aren't all teas originating in Asia even black tea.

@IcyArts Examples?

@@jimblanc8668 originated in asia and spreaded all over the world.and now some people are pretending tea is theirs. funny.

Meowth only picky eaters have to worry abt food

Meowth I never wear flip flop ever even though I’m singaporean, I kana injuries between the toes because the flip flop flap too much so since then I’ve only wear sandals

Meowth agreed 🤣

With all the food delivery services available now, I think even picky eaters are spoilt for choice.

Chee Chian ONLY!, here in spain in my city it rains for like 20-30 days a year

Same with Greece

try visiting dubai hehe...you will literally melt

They're probably having a rest during lunch break... It's tough working under the hot tropical sun.

Patrick Kam we have so many Indian here in hk too

Singaporeans are some of the most whiny and ungrateful folks i’ve ever encountered.Some of then have 0 appreciation for foreign workers doing the dirty work for them but instead prefers to degrade them and curse them with racial slurs.Don’t even deny it

how’s it irritating at all tho

well said bro. just read Stomp.SG comments or the Straits Times comments on social media to see how repugnant these SIngaporeans are where it comes to attitudes towards foreigners. Singaporeans are too lazy to clean their own dingy little HDBs, so they pay some 3rd world maid 600 bucks per MONTH to clean up after themselves. They like the feeling of power it gives them, to literally own a 3rd world slave. Who the hell needs a maid in a 40 square metre apartment in the 21st century? Then they cry about how hard life is because they have to work extra hours to pay for their maid. Here's an idea: clean your own fucking laundry, rasie your own kids, and save $600 per month! GENIUS ! Then the locals apply for jobs, demand a high salary (despite having zero experience) and then CRY that the foreigners are taking all the work because nobody wants to pay a local art graduate 6000 SGD per month to do a shitty job working on a construction site. As for the highly skilled jobs (which the foreigners are allegedly taking) , it's because locals do badly in school, they study some shit course at uni (such as Chinese Cultural Studies) and then wonder why they can't get a job in finance or as a Project Manager. Again- blame the foreigners. And when it comes to local universities: just read the comments on STOMP. They blame the PAP for giving opportunities to foreign students, and cry that we are taking places from them. Here's the truth of the matter: Singaporean students are given a higher scholarship and bursary than foreigners, and they are spoon fed at every step of the way, including receiving benefits for extra training. And what do they do with all these benefits? I'll tell you. IN my department at NTU (engineering) , do you know how many Singaporean students there were? ZERO. Most were Indian and Chinese. Do you know how many were in my friend's department (Humanities)? About 90% were local. What does this tell us? That locals HAVE the same opportunities, but they flush them down the toilet for an easy degree, then they blame the foreigners for taking the opportunities from them. They are the worst people in the world. The country is built by foreign blood and toil. These people couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery.

Your spelling is terribal Super annoying

r hahhhah

Absolutely agreed. Not needed at all.

@@sharkidoor it's called wechat people's in our community

@@fodee4313 what

Beauty With A Heart Welcome too...

Yeah

You wished it rained more? Ha! We have more than enough rain already

One week later... hahahahahahaha screw the rain

You want it to rain more? Well, New Years Eve was great, wasn't it? Honestly, Singapore's weather just sucks. We have no real seasons, and monsoon makes everyone on the roads act like they don't know how to drive anymore (something my expat teachers always complain about).

Exactly. Our car here is able to buy a Mercedes in America or what lmao

agreed

PEWDSSSS

How's public transport in Singapore? Is it good enough to live without a car?

Tristan Lau yup our public transport are one of the worlds best Who needs cars anyways

LONE WOLF yeah go ahead

DGUNN3R1 same lol i walk to the mall opposite my house and i'm already tired

yeah, yesterday watching the firework also tired, but managed to video it, just uploaded to my channel 😍

A G nah, its seldom dry here

agreed with AG

A G nice one planing to move to Singapore I don't no how day see us , I mean black people

Sheesh you took ur time to write all that

+Cynthia Sanchez So glad they've helped you! There wasn't a lot of info like this out when I moved here so I'm glad to provide it for others!

Cynthia Sanchez advance welcome to sg:)

Good luck on moving here!! 🍀

Welcome to Singapore! From, A true blue Singaporean

Jordan Miles thank you! I can't wait to be there 😊

Nigel Feng maybe because ‘cold storage’ has a more western feel to it so it is more approachable for foreigners??

Zoey Haha yes, that is true. Cold storage is more approachable for foreigners than all other supermarket.

indeed, there are items which NTUC or Sheng Siong dun carry...

You can try NTUC Finest, they offer a wider choice of products. I think one of the highlights is offering produced from Australia.

The nearest supermarket (walking distance) from my place is a Cold Storage. The prices are mostly an outrage.

nicholas Puah Food Republic food is lousy.

Little Frau did they over charge the outside prices ....

Overprice and lousy food. Nothing special!

Food Republic is definitely more pricier than other food courts or hawker centres. However, I do also note that their quantity, hygiene and service are a bit better. Will I eat at Food Republic often? No. There are usually better alternatives nearby. But the gap is definitely closing. Will I eat at Food Republic if it was convenient and I was hungry? Yeah, sure.

nicholas Puah the only good food republic is at BreadTalk hq

When I went to university there were lots of Singapore and Malaysian students. They spoke "Singlish" amongst themselves, but it wasn't difficult to understand. It seemed to just be normal English but with an accent, sometimes the grammar was messed up, and then they throw in a few "lahs" and "aiyahs" for good measure. Yeah sometimes they might use a word from Malay or some Chinese dialect, but not often.

*Grin* The lahs and aiyahs are not useless ... they change the context of the sentence depending on the tone, and where they are used in the sentence. And yes, Singlish is kinda "shorthand English" here... it's much faster to say "eh, go where?" then "hey, where are we going?"... we save a few words here and there but we fully understand each other depending on the context. It's not "messed up grammar" per se, but compared to normal English, it's messed up. In Singlish we have grammar rules too, just that foreigners don't know them :) Using the example above: "You go where?" - "Where'd you disappear off to? We were waiting for you!" "Where you?" - "Where are you right now?" Notice there's no lahs cuz grammatically the "lah" would not be appropriate.

"Most of us"? LOL. don't kid yourself. 100% of the phone conversations i've had with locals are incomprehensible. and that includes phone calls to the hospitals. It's no surprise they hire Pinoys for customer facing jobs. They can speak English properly and have a pleasant nature. The stark opposite of SIngaporeans.

Sorry to bust the myth. We hire them cuz they're cheap.

@foxtwo: Cheaper than the (MALE) conscripts in காசிவிஸ்வநாதன் “கா/கே” சண்முகம்’s “city, not country”? Come to think of it, I reckon that is why MALE Singaporean doctor ஜனில் புதுசேரி, the member of parliament (MP) who sold his [ kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pLOoh8aD2JmvdIk.html ] dad dominic to the LOWEST bidder, does NOT need to know what the abbreviations “NSF” & “NSman/NSmen” stand (no pun intended) for.

Bkinky Barnes fruits and veg are prettier too..

I dont think so,avid marathon runners know its very normal.

You probably will dehydrate if you run from Clementi to Changi Airport!

Sam Yew Nope. Try it 😊

Not if you stop at every MacDonald's on the way and ask for a cup of water =3

I wanna leave for points 1 and 3 though there are alot of plus points to living here too lol

Great people:D GOOD ONE.

ok LOR; somewhat great people LAH

jeremy cheong cringe

Great people? Nice meme

Linda Khaw .not all😁

Some of my international friends have told me it's difficult to make friends with the locals. Not because we're not friendly, but because we barely have time to spend with our families, much less our 'families from other mothers' (e.g.: friends). Gotta make it a point to change that busy schedule lifestyle; no excuse for us!

Why would they want to?

Singapore definitely are all of the above you mentioned.. it is worth the long trip from America :)

You can visit but don't live here, living in USA that makes you driving the car easy and host a privacy apartment

she needs to travel more

She’s talking about the foreign workers who nap in between their work (under the Void Decks, under the tree next to the road they’re working on etc.)

Pancakes really

Lol

I agree mostly with what you say about public housing in SG. Only HK fare worse in this area.

+Christian Koncz . Thanks for your insights. I think housing while still affordable in some countries is a big problem in others. Places like Australia, New Zealand, Canada, HK are all seeing housing prices go crazy in major cities, so now many people can't afford to buy a house. I heard the same thing was happening in some major cities in Europe too. I think many smaller european cities still have affordable housing though. Some countries in Europe are quite generous in terms of welfare, which is why so many migrants marched across Europe to get to the most generous countries such as Germany and Sweden. Also some European countries have a lot of pro-renter legislation such as price controls etc.

Singapore is obviously not a country for cheapskate bogans.

A nap a day keeps the grouchiness away! hahaha When will you be coming back?

Singaporeans master the art of walking on a slippery concrete with flip-flops. haha~ I did the same. walk like a penguin but in big steps.

What is this flip flop that everyone here keeps talking about? The only flip flop I knew was a chip in my semiconductor labs :D

+Global Fashion Gal - Brianna Degaston hahaha! Well I'll definitely be watching to see what points of ours are similar! Lol

Ihana Pön ohno

on average a green tea in a japanese restaurant will be free if you order a meal actually, if you order green tea at a drink shop it'll probably be about $1+ for roadside stalls and $2-$3 at a café

Nah, one dollar for the pokca green tea

이라신 Mah Favourite

$16?? That’s so expensive. Who’s been scalping you? 😂

+bobododo100 Probably. I bought mine from Bali for like $2 hahaha

Haha I think so too! My friends' slips all the time but mine (havaianas) works great anywhere by me.

CurrentlyHannah yes! Cheap flip flops will slip. Definitely get a good pair of slippers

get havaianas, expensive but totally worth it

Singaporeans have mastered the art of flip flop walking

What is a failing grade ? If the place fails, does it get a fail grade or does it get shutdown ? Thanks.

yes it does get shut down. C and below is very uncommon and most probably will be shut down

www.nea.gov.sg/public-health/food-hygiene/food-hygiene-standards-in-singapore believe the grading is to gauge the overall cleanliness, hygiene and housekeeping standards of the stall/estb

Abcdgasf Singapore is amazing 🇸🇬👍🏻

Expensive house rental but not so much quality. Old and stinky!

Why? Would it be a problem if she is not a native speaker? Even native speakers are allowed to make mistakes. If you are interested in helping correct her. No need to criticize. It helps nobody and spreads negative energy.

+skyblueiiii Ooo that's a good idea! The Australian take on Christmas 😊

+skyblueiiii Thanks for the idea!

You are welcome. I have wondered for a long time.

Likewise. Especially since it's summertime there at Christmas - being from New England myself, that's a foreign concept in of itself. Also, always have wanted to travel to Australia :)

Yes it is exactly like that ! ha ha. They have normal Xmas celebrations with presents and decorations, except since it is so hot, they all go to the beach to swim. They also play games outdoors such as cricket, frisbee etc.

If if you don't like it, it would be a wonderful experience.

Kuen Lee i think so😂

Kuen Lee this is funny. She should have find out more first. Lol (its k, np to just express yourself :)

i'm from west end

@@totallynotmi6351 totally agree, Australia is so boring and you realize this when you visit other countries! not to mention the crap the public transport, traffic etc. Australia could learn a lot from Singapore! sad to see so many addicts in Australia too. i feel very safe when I'm in Singapore, i dont feel that safe is Australia... i love Singapore!

@@tgml5986 the grass is always greener on the othet side. Singapore is one of the most boring cities you can ever live in as everything is so bloody expensive

chand72 wise words! Greetings from Singapore 👍🏻🇸🇬

White people get all the attention

We have enough education. Your precious PAP gives us all the scholarships and jobs, right?

When life is so good, that you need to find things to complain about. Sounds bad, but then again at least we don't have many "real" problems. Which is good.

80% of them are whiners. I agree. But the rest are a small and growing minority who's out there making a change for our foreign labourers. That's whats being taught in SG schools nowadays so the next generation can be better people. Learning from our mistakes and making progress is key to change.

and taxes

VAN Yoworldian in fact tax rates are not as high compared to European countries and the US. both personal income tax and corporate tax. A bit more goes to compulsory savings though (not a tax )

You're crying about taxes? Try living in the West.

@@cherri_tsuuuu Idiot