Haowen Wong
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In case if you thought Irvine was the only bubble in the world, check out Singapore.
It is safe, imacculately clean, affluent, a thriving commercial/financial center, with a competitive educational system, master-planned, is famed for its diversity and has a lot of Asians, and is lushly landscaped, with many parks, earning it the nickname "The garden city." The air quality and drinking water are excellent, and the weather perenially balmy (though hot.) In the Autumn, it has wildfires and ants are a pervasive problem. It is efficient, new, and fast growing, with minimal traffic congestion. However, the cost of living is notoriously high, and the city is getting overdeveloped, and there are influxes of well-educated immigrants. 31% of the citizens are foreign born.
And, lastly, but importantly, it is BORING.
I have never been to Singapore but I asked some Chinese and Indians who have lived there and they agreed that Singapore was the "Irvine of the East."
If you still aren't convinced, there is even a city next to Singapore called Johor Bahru, which is dirty, poor, and has such a high crime rate that Singaporeans "fear for their lives" when they visit! It is their version of Santa Ana.
Furthermore, Singapore is declared the only slum free major city in the world by the UN. It is basically ghetto-free.
It is safe, imacculately clean, affluent, a thriving commercial/financial center, with a competitive educational system, master-planned, is famed for its diversity and has a lot of Asians, and is lushly landscaped, with many parks, earning it the nickname "The garden city." The air quality and drinking water are excellent, and the weather perenially balmy (though hot.) In the Autumn, it has wildfires and ants are a pervasive problem. It is efficient, new, and fast growing, with minimal traffic congestion. However, the cost of living is notoriously high, and the city is getting overdeveloped, and there are influxes of well-educated immigrants. 31% of the citizens are foreign born.
And, lastly, but importantly, it is BORING.
I have never been to Singapore but I asked some Chinese and Indians who have lived there and they agreed that Singapore was the "Irvine of the East."
If you still aren't convinced, there is even a city next to Singapore called Johor Bahru, which is dirty, poor, and has such a high crime rate that Singaporeans "fear for their lives" when they visit! It is their version of Santa Ana.
Furthermore, Singapore is declared the only slum free major city in the world by the UN. It is basically ghetto-free.
