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Rape, murder, drug smuggling, terrorism are not mistakes you accidentally make. These are serious crimes destroying lives and the offenders do not deserve a second chance.

It’s also a repellent.

If you are gay don’t go there. As an expat who is not affected, my main concern is that i just don’t want to pay taxes

The no prospect of citizenship is not an issue. Everyone just goes to the UAE for the lack of taxes and the money, not to become a citizen.

The benefit of not granting citizenship is that it makes it much easier to kick out people again and maintaining benefits for citizens.

Having a maid is actually a huge benefit for most expats/locals in SG, Hong Kong and Dubai. They’re basically part of the family but you need a helper if you work until 8pm.

If you hire a maid and fire her, you have to pay her repatriation back to her country of origin.

You do not seem to like a rules based society. I’d have no problem renouncing my German citizenship and become Singaporean. I just want stability, safety, good food, good bars, excellent transit, low taxes and excellent internet.

A filipino friend of mine moved to Australia after being denied PR in SG, mainly due his race.

As a white person, I’d probably never get PR too but I think it’s good that they maintain the current percentages, otherwise the country would turn unrecognizable like Germany or France.

Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan was all fully furnished. Most property sites have an option to filter for that.

Also there are a lot of service apartments available too!

Because the religious part affects me, the slavery I don’t really notice because they do a good job hiding it?

I think it’s a mix of valuing education more, a strict enforcement of the law with severe punishment, a small area to maintain, electing educated politicians and demographics. Asians tend to commit less violent crimes. Markham in Canada for example has a much lower violent crime rate than most of the Canada and is predominantly Chinese.

The heat can definitely be intense. It can also get a boring fast because it’s such small place, so traveling is a a must! I believe with kids it can be a challenge because there’s conscription for males and that also applied to permanent residents.

When I was in my twenties, I didn’t really buy stuff and apartments in Asia are mostly fully furnished. All my stuff fitted in a 32kg luggage until 2022 or so.

Yes, for most part. SG has a zero tolerance policy.

I do think the death penalty for drugs is reasonable. Drug dealers destroy families and communities for their own profit. The arrival card in Singapore literally states that smuggling drugs is punishable by death. If you still attempt, that sounds like a “you” problem.

Also the punishment for vandalism or rape sounds reasonable.

The treatment of foreign construction workers is not good and can be improved.

As a German expat who lived in Singapore for 3 years, it’s still the best country I ever lived in and I’ve also worked in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan HK, and Germany.

Everything works, it’s very efficient, public transit and internet is good and it’s extremely safe. It also has great food and has low taxes.

Most Western countries just can’t compete and while the UAE is pretty well run in some aspect, there’s always the religious part which makes me uneasy when I’m there.

As a single person without kids, there is no better place than Singapore.

Thanks, StillColor seems to do the trick!

1. I don't think I'll ever buy Dell again. My current monitor is a Dell S3221QS 32" screen and it has vertical lines and starts flickering on both the Macbook M1 and the Mac Studio with the M4 Max chip after some time, which is a known issue[0][1]. It also defaults to YPbPr colors rather than RGB/SRGB, so the colors look off. I'm using HDMI to HDMI connectivity currently.

Part of it is also my fault as I thought a monitor would work with any computer.

2. That aside, what are you all using for window management on these large screens? I'm currently using Rectangle on Mac, but I was wondering if there's a better way.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/1221mz2/dell_s3221qs_... [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Dell/comments/n8ei34/dell_s3221qs_f...

I have a Mac Studio with the M4 Max and 128GB RAM

The Qwen3-coder model you use is pretty good. You can enable the LM Studio API and install the qwen CLI and point to the API endpoint. This basically gives you functionality similar to Claude code.

I agree that the code quality is not on part with gpt5-codex and Claude. I also haven't tried z.ai's models locally yet. I think on a Mac with that size GLM 4.5 Air should be able to run.

For README generation I like gemma3-27b-it-qat and gpt-oss-120b.

100%. My experience has been the same. The docs have their shortcomings and I ended up reading through so many Github issues and random blog posts trying to resolve the issues.

From a documentation perspective, AWS is still the best.

Clean air, clean environment, safety, access to nature, food safety, (mostly) free/uncensored internet, easy to do business, easy to do daily things, good public transportation, safety, good medical system, not a lot of corruption.

There's other things as well, but the above things are quite important to me. Your mile may vary though :-)

Lots of people used to go to China for work and could do pretty much anything they want, but since Jinping took over it went downhill fast.

Most people in the expat community I know went to Hong Kong and Singapore instead for the following reasons: 1) Easy to do business 2) Easy to get your money in and out. 3) Low taxes 4) Central travel hubs in Asia 5) Less backwards mindset as these cities feel more cosmopolitan and are interconnected with the outside world

With HK having less and less freedom, Singapore is really the only choice for foreigners to have a decent life quality in Asia. Tokyo could potentially be an option too, but it's really hard to live there due the very different structures in Japanese society and taxes are pretty high.

Yeah China steals everything else. Why wouldn't they steal code?

100%. CIBC calls me about that too and tries to upsell. Just tell them you plan to leave the country or something and you're not interested, then they stop chasing.

Has anyone based in Europe heard of that car company before? Lived in 7-8 countries and never seen one to be honest.

Please don’t recommend GoDaddy.

Their previous CEO killed elephants. This company supported SOPA. They literally use every trick they could come up with to fool people. It’s probably one of the least ethical domain registrars out there.

Just use namecheap, name.com, gandi.net(Amazon domains uses them I think),inwx or anything more ethical.

I prefer working from home. I moved to Toronto, but then I found out that Downtown is a bit of a shit hole, so I'll try to move out as far as I can(maybe even a different province)

Very true. It’s a lot of bullshit but just filter the noise and extract the good bits

I got 4 jobs in 4 countries through Linkedin.

It’s a powerful tool if you can filter the 95% garbage out :-)

I also heard the downpayment required is only 5%.

Meanwhile in Toronto a house is $1m+ while salaries are 100k-150k.

Glad to live in a free country where we don't praise dictatorships and authoritarianism. The world should just boycott fucking China.

Friends from HK including my partner who left that place before it turns into a cesspit like China tend to disagree but good luck to you! You may not earn much in other countries, so you may stay since you don't care about freedom nor values anyway.