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User Joak lived there and has posted here - it’s an interesting take.

The oppressive state behaviour has repercussions in their view.

Privileged migrants (I mean expats) might not be terribly affected by how unfree or authoritarian a society is.

> As an expat, the censorship and oppression was only materialized by the absence of a decent art scene.

Even if Singapore is authoritarian and unfree, if they have high happiness scores, high life expectancies, high standards of living, maybe we have to accept you can have some good authoritarian places to live.

If you'll read my comments again you'll see that I haven't taken a stance on this myself one way or the other.

Fair point!

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