Singapore sia suey.

From UK-based student forum:

To OP, are you a Chinese?

If you are Oriental or European descended, and nonmuslim but preferably Christian, you should like the general reception of the local Singaporeans.

Although to be fair, it gets very boring after a while and like already mentioned, job prospects, quality of education, research, curriculum, equipment, innovation and/or invention is not even comparable to third rate universities in the UK/USA/Canada/Australia or other anglophone developed countries.

Singaporeans actually don't speak English, rather Singlish is spoken which is a concoction involving various languages of that region. It's stiflingly hot and the government and people are extremely pro Amerikan and admire, cherish, emulate, mimic and seek to be everything that is Amerikan, and to some extent British too.

It depends really, whether you will like it or not on the social life aspect of it.

AFA academics are concerned, I wouldn't leave UK, or some anglophone developed country for Singapore.

Don't get me wrong. Singapore has done pretty well for a third world country and a people with colonial mentality of being below their superiors. It's pretty neat and safe too.

Very small, boring, and people work hard because productivity is low, and entertainment lacking. The only topic of conversation is often 'food'. Haha.

And oh, don't take the rankings too seriously to decide your choices. Russia was able to send men, satellite, dogs to space first, sent probes to other planets, built world's strongest nuclear bombs, strongest conventional bombs, largest and fastest planes ever made, longest range missiles, wins International Physics, Chemistry, Maths olympiads and Int Maths Contests among others.

Even though Nobel prizes are western awards and biased towards the West and against nonwesterners, Russians still won science prizes in Nobel prizes while Singapore has none of the above mentioend features of Russia.

Still a Singaporean university (the only 'comprehensive' one, the two other unis there are business oriented or technology oriented) is ranked higher than all Russian unis.

Says it all about the ranking methodology really.


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Singapore IS stiflingly hot and the people do seem rather food-obsessed. I am personally a food junkie who stalks food blogs and occasionally blasts mediocre restaurants on Hungrygowhere. As for our residual colonial hang-up, it's embarrassingly true. It just is. The Russian example is a bit underhand, though. Russia is a superpower, or rather, was, and has a population several times that of Singapore's and natural resources far beyond what our tiny granite island can provide. Technology-wise, I don't think Singapore is incapable of creating unparalleled weapons of mass destruction, but it's just that we feel less of a need to assert our superiority, yes? The accomplishments mentioned seemed more like results of a sandbox battle with the United States than borne out of a genuine spirit for innovation. Sending shit to outer space appears like your typical territory game taken to astronomic levels.