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09-10-2012, 07:59 PM
Everything is relative.
In Athens, after paying the equivalent of SGD $16 for a plate of spaghetti and $10 Macdonald set meals, my Greek colleagues find our hawker food "dirt cheap"!
But my Thai colleagues find it incredible that a plate of fried rice is so "expensive" at SGD $3!
Just imagine how our Johor neighbours must feel about Singaporeans snapping their properties... So affordable! HDB 4 room can exchange for corner landed terrace? I almost tempted...
Unfortunately, the reality is not how much things cost... But how much money we have
10 years later if the same Queenstown maisonette rise to $2 million, the couple will say it's a value buy at $1 million!
In Athens, after paying the equivalent of SGD $16 for a plate of spaghetti and $10 Macdonald set meals, my Greek colleagues find our hawker food "dirt cheap"!
But my Thai colleagues find it incredible that a plate of fried rice is so "expensive" at SGD $3!
Just imagine how our Johor neighbours must feel about Singaporeans snapping their properties... So affordable! HDB 4 room can exchange for corner landed terrace? I almost tempted...
Unfortunately, the reality is not how much things cost... But how much money we have
10 years later if the same Queenstown maisonette rise to $2 million, the couple will say it's a value buy at $1 million!
Just google singapore man of leisure