It's nice in theory, and you can have spots like this, but doing it everywhere would be enormously costly. All the upkeep of employees who tend to it, the water for watering, tools, etc. And then the messes that they make with falling needles/leaves/etc. It's a cool place, but it's not really a scalable design.
Singapore is a beautiful place but you are right, you couldn't do this for a large country. But there's also far more GDP and tax revenue a larger country brings in and yet our taxes are squandered on Pakistani gender studies (totally not money laundering!)
Well all of Singapore doesn't even look like that, but Singapore city is also considered the most expensive city in the world. So it's clearly not cheap. Also chewing gum is illegal and drug trafficking is punishable by death. Weird place.
Yes, not all of Singapore looks like that and yes, the city, which is basically most of the country, is expensive to live in... but at least you're getting something out of the price. San Francisco is crap. LA is getting worse and worse, same with New York. All really expensive places. Singapore has one of the most expensive rapid transit systems in the world but at least it works wonderfully... California spent a ton and has now cancelled their rapid transit system. Total failure.
As to their laws, every place has had weird laws. Some stuff may be extreme but look at the tyranny the west is going through right now and tell me that isn't worse.
No place is a utopia and so yes, Singapore isn't perfect for anyone, regardless of your preferences for society. But that doesn't mean they aren't far more well off than most others.
I've never been there, so I speak only from 2nd hand accounts. But I'd largely agree with you. San Fran and NY are expensive to live in and generally suck because of corrupt politicians who are stealing all the money though.
I don't really think every place has weird laws that are comparable to Singapore, but you may disagree.
Why do you have to live in NY or San Fran though? There are lots of other cities that aren't nearly as expensive and are nicer places to live. My only point about Singapore was that these things are costly. I'm not sure why you're stumping so hard for Singapore here.
It's nice in theory, and you can have spots like this, but doing it everywhere would be enormously costly. All the upkeep of employees who tend to it, the water for watering, tools, etc. And then the messes that they make with falling needles/leaves/etc. It's a cool place, but it's not really a scalable design.
Singapore is a beautiful place but you are right, you couldn't do this for a large country. But there's also far more GDP and tax revenue a larger country brings in and yet our taxes are squandered on Pakistani gender studies (totally not money laundering!)
Well all of Singapore doesn't even look like that, but Singapore city is also considered the most expensive city in the world. So it's clearly not cheap. Also chewing gum is illegal and drug trafficking is punishable by death. Weird place.
Yes, not all of Singapore looks like that and yes, the city, which is basically most of the country, is expensive to live in... but at least you're getting something out of the price. San Francisco is crap. LA is getting worse and worse, same with New York. All really expensive places. Singapore has one of the most expensive rapid transit systems in the world but at least it works wonderfully... California spent a ton and has now cancelled their rapid transit system. Total failure.
As to their laws, every place has had weird laws. Some stuff may be extreme but look at the tyranny the west is going through right now and tell me that isn't worse.
No place is a utopia and so yes, Singapore isn't perfect for anyone, regardless of your preferences for society. But that doesn't mean they aren't far more well off than most others.
I've never been there, so I speak only from 2nd hand accounts. But I'd largely agree with you. San Fran and NY are expensive to live in and generally suck because of corrupt politicians who are stealing all the money though.
I don't really think every place has weird laws that are comparable to Singapore, but you may disagree.
Why do you have to live in NY or San Fran though? There are lots of other cities that aren't nearly as expensive and are nicer places to live. My only point about Singapore was that these things are costly. I'm not sure why you're stumping so hard for Singapore here.