@sfdragonboy better smoke all the weed you want before going to Singapore.
Indonesia is the same way. They stamp your visa with a little warning telling you that they kill people for drug offenses there.
Yes, I read about this as I was stuck in the airport last night returning from a killer family wedding. They rented out part of the TWA Hotel Tower at JFK and had the wedding ceremony actually on the tarmac in front of the TWA airplane. Definitely creative but not in April!!! Luckily no rain, but a tad windy and cold…
Back to this, I totally salute Singapore and the other countries who punish drug dealers/smugglers with the ultimate punishment. I laugh when the UN and other countries plead for their lives. No!!!
I am not happy that Malaysia recently stopped with the capital punishment for some crimes. Come on, that is one of the reasons why I want to go there!!!
So many foreigners want to invest in Singapore property. Double ABSD from 30% to 60%, still want to buy? Singaporeans pay… wait for it… 0% ABSD for the first residential property.
Since you are at ground zero, do you believe what I am hearing or seeing on YouTube that locals/expats are leaving though due to high rental/COL increases there? Isn’t Singapore kind of dependent on the foreign specialized workers?
Why people should NOT buy properties in Singapore. Their government is very keen on keeping properties affordable to their citizens. Not a bad thing actually. But that means as an asset class investors, especially foreign investors, should avoid residentials like a plague.
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Is the same joke many here uttered. Nobody Goes There Anymore, It’s Too Crowded.
I have been renting out my ex-Primary. Since 2021, have been raising rent by double digits annually.
Multi-millionaire immigrants are replacing those leaving. The profile of those coming in are richer and higher-paying professionals. Turmoil are everywhere except in ASEAN region. Americans, Europeans, Indians and Chinese are coming in drove.
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This is the overarching principle. However, this cooling measure is targeted at wealthy investors (local and foreign). Singaporeans and PRs buying for owner-occupied are not affected.
Ah, now we get the the real reason why there’s so little crime. They don’t have the drug trade which leads to gangs which lead to violence. It has zero to do with gun laws.
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Huh? Singapore has one of the world’s strictest gun law. Around zero percent of private Singaporeans own guns.
If they had massive drug usage and gangs, do you think there’d be zero guns in the country? The lack of drugs and gangs is why banning guns actually works.
I don’t think you can tease out the cause and effect there. You can easily go the other way and say, if SG allows everybody to own guns, can their police catch all the well armed drug dealers? In Mexico drug cartels have better weapons than their military.
It’s super weird to say banning guns is not important in literally the country with the strictest gun law.
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Many rules and enforcement have to be in place to tackle an issue. Single dimensional rule to an issue doesn’t work.
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Do you think the drug cartels legally own their guns? That’s the whole point. Drugs are the root cause for gang creation, gangs having money, gangs being violent, and gangs having guns. The whole thing starts with the money from drug trade. Eliminate that and you’d eliminate most violent crime in America and most homicides. You’d also get rid of most illegal gun ownership. Crime rates would plummet. Do you think banning gun ownership would stop all the gang violence and gun use?
“ Mexico has extremely restrictive laws regarding gun possession. There are only two stores in the entire country, DCAM near the capital, and OTCA, in Apodaca, Nuevo León. It also takes months of paperwork to have a chance at purchasing one legally.”
Mexican cartels got their guns legally in America. Saying what laws are supposed to be in Mexico is quite meaningless in a country where judges and politicians are regularly murdered.
Gun control in one isolated locale doesn’t work if you are surrounded by countries with lax gun laws. Just like California alone can’t stop guns flowing in even if it tired. We don’t patrol our borders with neighboring states.
Like @hanera said you can’t just isolate one factor in a complex issue and say you got a golden bullet. Gun control alone won’t stop drug trade. But I am pretty sure handing a gun to everybody won’t make us safer either, and will make the drug problems worse.
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You think I’m saying gun control would stop drug trade?
That’s the whole point. Mexico’s gun laws are almost as strict as Singapore’s.
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But I think that is the problem or will be down the road. It is not sustainable to only have well to do folks coming in. Who is going to do the work, that is the question. We have sort of seen that in the Fab 7x7 in the past. Too expensive that well even policemen or firemen can’t afford to live within city limits. Not the main reason for its problems, but the Fab 7x7 is short a ton of cops for some reason (and one is the high cost of living).
Who cares about the egg or the chicken frankly when it comes to Singapore? The fact remains that it was a sheet hole many moons ago, complete lawlessness, slums everywhere and then they literally wiped the board clean (definitely infringed on people’s rights to my understanding) and started over with very strict rules across the board, which included capital punishment for drug smuggling and the requirement that all guns must be turned or or else. Today, it is the ultimate dream, where you can walk safely with your bling bling Daytona Rolex and fat gold chain around your neck in public without any fear at all.
Again, not as impressive, but remember when I mentioned that a young female Grab driver picked me up around 1am from a hawker center in Penang (Malaysia)? That was the first time (not the last, of encountering young female drivers on that month trip), so I asked her is it safe for her to be working so late and driving strangers around? She pointblank said yeah, Penang is safe and there are cameras and cops around. Can that happen here, young female Uber/Lyft driver working in the whee hours? Hell no.
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