Singaporeans, do you love Singapore?

What I Love about singapore(in no particular order)

1. The Food. American cities like San Francisco and New York brag about having a melting pot of different cultures, and thus, a huge variety of restaurants. But Singapore, in our opinion, has them all beat. Because while Southeast Asian cuisines remain rare in the US, Singapore has them all and in their authentic greatness. Not only is there a variety of restaurants, but Singapore restaurants remain truer to the taste of the home country than, say, Tokyo, where the food is altered more toward Japanese tastes. On any given night when we want to eat out, it's a struggle to decide which of our favorite restaurants we want to go to, or if we'll try something completely new. Our sole lament is that there aren't enough good Mexican restaurants in Singapore; hopefully, someone will hear our plea and open one.

2. Changi International Airport. Singapore like to talk about becoming "world-class" this or "best in the world" at that. For the most part, it's all a load of crap. But when it comes to the airport, Singapore doesn't have to strive to become the best; they already are. There is nothing like coming home to Singapore from a business trip, passing through the ultra-efficient immigration, picking up your luggage in mere minutes after your plane arrives, and getting a taxi after waiting in a queue for less than five minutes. Hey, you even have time to stop off in the Duty Free shop and pick up something, and you'll still be through the airport in less than 30 minutes. Add that together with the range of shops and services to be found, the absence of machine gun toting security guards, and the candy dish at every immigration officers booth, and you've got the airport the world has to beat.

3. Safe Streets. Yes, it's practically a cliche to talk about Singapore as "clean and safe". While I don't necessarily believe the "clean" part anymore (we'll discuss that later), it's hard to dispute the "safe" factor. School children can still walk home by themselves without their parents fearing they will be kidnapped. Women can walk around after dark. There are no bands of roaming gypsy children to pick your pockets. As the Singaporean slogan says, "Low crime doesn't mean no crime.", but low crime is still a lot more than what most cities can say for themselves.

4. Public Transportation. There is sort of a love/hate relationship people have with mass transit, but to be fair, I have to include it as something we love. Now living near a train system, we find it almost unnecessary to take a taxi anymore. The buses go almost anywhere. And the whole system is cheap, cheap, cheap. Of course, there are reasons to hate the public transportation system as well, but we'll go into that later.

5. Proximity to Prime Vacation Areas. Despite the hordes of Japanese and European tourists who believe otherwise, Singapore itself is not a prime vacation destination. On the other hand, getting to a prime vacation spot from Singapore is a short, boat, plane, or bus ride away. To name a few, Bali, Phuket, Langkawi, Tioman, Bintan, and Koh Samui are all less than two hours away. And local travel packages are inexpensive enough that it's easy to make a long weekend out of any of these destinations.

6. Shopping. Given the fact that there's not much to see in Singapore, it's no wonder there are so many places to shop. You can buy almost anything in Singapore, from designer clothes to fake rolexes. And the best thing to buy in Singapore, in our opinion? Electronic goods, which usually come ready to use in any country of the world, which means dual voltage and multi-system. You won't find that in most other places in the world.

7. The Singapore Zoo. If there is one thing that is a "must see" for your visit to Singapore, it's the Zoo. There is a whole story about the Zoo here if you are interested. But let me just say, there are tons of monkeys at the Zoo. Need I say more?

8. Prenatal Care and Delivery. Okay, this is a strange one to include, but since we are having our first child here, we should share that experience as a positive one. I'm sure I will write a complete story after our son is born, but for now, let's just say that the experience has been very positive. Singapore is much more thorough than the US in terms of prenatal monitoring of a baby, and we have heard that the actually delivery process is as comfortable and pleasant and baby deliveries can be. The doctors and nurses we have worked with are friendly and professional. Overall, there may not be a better place in the world to welcome a newborn.

I do appreciate my country. As a student, I know for sure that education here is good but can also be seen as too much stress. I hear and can witness that things here sure are expensive and that makes loving Singapore a debatable factor. But when some say people here are unfriendly or whatever, I dont think that's true because there are many different people in singapore and in every country, there are people who are more... accepting? and some harsher.

Well, i am not a singaporean but i am staying in singapore. The things in singapore are very expensive and not much tourist attraction. Most of them are just blah blah centre....

the people here are very caring too. but kiasu. Education here is good in singapore. as a student, if you want to come to asia to study, come to singapore. :D

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i feel that singapore has no real identity,not like other countries that's probably why many youths don't have a sense of belonging

As a singaporean, i feel like we are strictly following the rules and laws in singapore, i know its a good thing but sometimes you feel like your not free to do stuff you're always in a rush...like for example in malaysia(no pun intended) i feel like they have alot of time to relax and enjoy life

When I was living in Singapore, I definitely took it for granted. I would lament how expensive it is, how jia lat our education system is, how unromantic our boys are!

But now that I am living thousands of miles away, I can safely proclaim that Singapore is the greatest city in the world!

We may be expensive, but compared to other first world nations, we are actually damn cheap to live in! While it sucks that we only have three uni's...we do have a truck load of poly's that churn out high quality students. And as for boys, I guess I had to eat my own words when I married a local singaporean last year! hahah

So yes, I do REALLY LOVE Singapore.

Flat out NO. I wish I wasn't born and raised here. I'm happy for the cleanliness and safety, but we can't voice out our opinions or we might get arrested. You get fines for every little thing. You get 'Speak Mandarin' campaign, yeah like the rest of Singaporeans speak Mandarin too. We minorities are not treated equally, we do not get two 24-hour channels on TV, we do not get free newspaper. While the government encourages our children to study hard and speak proper English, our jobs are given away to foreigners who do not speak a word of English (especially ones in the service line). Some are ignorant, they don't give up their seats to people who need it. They are not willing to help. More of our money are taken away everyday, and what are we left with? What do we feed the children? Grass? So there you go.

off course , I like to be N Singapore .

it's beautiful place to spend time IN

Singapore's Government are giving the citizen impression that in this country, money always come first, that the reason why they are paying the Ministers world highest salaries.

I love this country for the kind citizens, but hate the materialistic Government which is always money minded.

I'm an American, and I'm pretty sure my country is'nt very well liked right now because of current leadership, but I think Singapore sounds like a cool place to live. Maybe I should live there or in Malaysia for a couple years after college, just to see what it's really like. I had a friend who moved there last year and they said they really like it so far. And I've heard American citizens who have lived over there say they like it better then the U.S.

How can anyone not love Singapore - la? Worked in Singapore from 2001 to 03 n loved it. They had to drag me to Changi n I left nail marks in the tarmac. It's now home when I'm not working overseas after buying a place next to Clarke Quay.

What's the big attraction? Singaporean people n Singlish, atmosphere, social scene, food, organisation, availability of just about everything (apart from a taxi when its near midnight), low crime. Yeah, Singapore's a fine city, n paradise for me.