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Singapore vs Bangkok
06-12-2013, 08:47 AM
I want to stay for a couple of months, get some work done and have fun going out and chasing lizards. Has anyone lived in both of them? Which one is more fun to live in? "Fun" in general and regarding girls.
I spent a week in BKK and a week in Singapore. Singapore seems nicer but pricier.
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Singapore vs Bangkok
06-12-2013, 09:08 AM
What did you do in Singapore?
Singapore is a place to work, not a place to live.
Singapore is nicer in the sense the electricity is always on, you can rely on your garbage being taken away and you can have confidence in the rule of law, but really, it's the cross between Wall St and Stepford wives. A perverse utopia (dystopia) for people on this board, a convincing parody of ideal but ultimately shallow to the point of meaningless. It works however if you're in banking and money laundering, or you need to develop Asian contacts.
If getting work done is your own intellectual projects which derives your own income, not a wage, as far as fun in terms of how much and what type of fun the locals have, in terms how far your fun your dollar can buy, in terms of the quality of lizards, BKK wins hands down.
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06-12-2013, 10:55 AM
T and A Man is right about Singapore. There are many, many sexily dressed girls, but they all come across as robotically sexless and conversationally uninteresting. It's no wonder the place survives on a bubble of importing illiterate "foreign talents" to do the dirty work. This bubble will pop spectacularly in twenty years or so given the space limitations unless they change policy drastically, which is unlikely.
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Singapore vs Bangkok
06-12-2013, 11:06 AM
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I thought this was a troll thread when I saw the title.
Bangkok wins in almost any category.
-Cost of living
-Quality of women
-Quantity of hot women
-Fun
-Muay Thai
-Beaches
-Mountains
-Tiger petting zoos
-Adventure tourism
-40 minute flight to Myanmar - final economic frontier in Asia
-Number of clubs and venues
-Equally good as a regional and intercontinental air hub
-Equally good as a budget flight destination
-Facing the strange and exciting every time you go to the local 711
-Learning a new language by default
-Emerging market and exploring business opportunities
Singapore wins for overall salary (although the cost of living and alcohol will eat that up anyway)
Singapore wins for low taxes if you want to incorporate. But then again this all depends on what you are doing.
Singapore wins for English language penetration - but then you are speaking fluently in English to a bunch of sterile and boring people. Would you rather have funny pantomime conversations in broken English with Thai people while picking up Thai or speak English to close minded Chinese douche bags and learn nothing?
If I was married and had a couple of kids I would still probably live in Thailand if it came down to it.
If you were going to die 5 years from now you would remember your year in Bangkok much more vividly than the year you spend in that giant sterile cultureless shopping mall at the tip of the Malay peninsula.
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Question - are you going to build your career? Are you going to live as a digital nomad? Do you want to start an import/export business? Are you trying to launch a tech startup? Do you want to work in finance or private wealth management?
What are your goals? What are you trying to get out of these spots?
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Singapore vs Bangkok
06-12-2013, 03:46 PM
BKK if you want to actually have fun and not spend a fortune. Singapore is dull.
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Singapore vs Bangkok
06-12-2013, 04:21 PM
I want to say a few nice things about Sillypore. The food is really wonderful and I could spend a week just enjoying all different kinds of unique cuisine. I find the girls interesting, as long as you stay away from the upscale rich Orchard Rd types. Some of the regular girls are very approachable and fun. Also some opportunities with cute indonesian or malay girls working as au pairs, housekeepers etc. I found a lot of the locals very nice.
The city is a great location for getting cheap flights to desirable places for diving and tropical paradise type activity. The place has great health care. The city has an incredible history as a major port, and although they have torn down most of the atmospheric and historic old city, there still some interesting parts worth exploring.
If you can find it, I recommend getting the Peter Bogdanovic film version of the Paul Theroux book 'Saint Jack'. Lots of shots of old Singapore, which Peter talks about in the film commentary as having been torn down. I understand why Singapore destroyed so much of their traditional buildings in the push to be a first world country, but it was still an absolute shame. Old Singapore was supposed to be one of the most atmospheric and interesting SEA cities
I spent time in Singapore for work, and I can honestly say I really enjoyed my time there. Singapore has more to offer than many give it credit for.
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06-12-2013, 08:44 PM
Quote: (06-12-2013 08:33 PM)youngmobileglobal Wrote:
The best way to resolve this, really, is to spend 2-4 weeks in Bangkok and then 2-4 weeks in Singapore and decide on your own. We can give you all the info we can but there is really nothing like showing up.
If you are averse to the new, strange, and sometimes less-then-perfect infrastructure (and not much English) then you may be averse to Thailand.
If you are averse to outrageously high cost of living, cost of partying, mediocre women, and a lack of culture, then you may be averse to Singapore.
Check out Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations on Youtube for both Thailand and Singapore. That'll also help give you a bit of an idea of what things are like on the ground over there.
But he said he's already spent time in both Bangkok and Singapore.
I can't have sex with your personality, and I can't put my penis in your college degree, and I can't shove my fist in your childhood dreams, so why are you sharing all this information with me?
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06-14-2013, 07:50 PM
I lived in Singapore for a month at a time several times three years ago. Singapore is a place to shop and work or go for the weekend. Everything else pales in comparison to Bangkok. I find the Singlish and constant talk of work to be extremely irritating.
Women in Singapore believe they are everything the men are and then some and I'll never forget one girl telling me how, "In Singapore, the women tell the men what to do." My response was, "Do I seem like the guy who is going to take orders from a woman in a relationship?" No comment from her.
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06-14-2013, 10:44 PM
I have job offers in both places at the moment and am thinking a lot on this debate myself. (Although my decision will be much more based on the job than the city.)
If you have any semblance of 'game' and like Asian girls, both cities are phenomenal for women. To the OP: your choice should depend much more on the objectives and nature of your work.
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Singapore vs Bangkok
06-17-2013, 12:11 PM
It's not a race.
Singapore isn't even in the running.
The fact that your best bets in Singapore will often be Thai girls should tell you something.