winston

I love it how this triggered the Singaporeans. I love Singapore, but it’s very obvious to me that their whole national raison d’être is to put Malaysia down. They are still majorly butthurt that they were supposedly kicked out of the union (when in reality they wanted to leave, as they should have) and they seem to have some kind of inferiority complex where they just have to constantly put Malaysia down. It’s very easy to believe their trash talk about Malaysia if you’ve never been to Kuala Lumpur (and we should compare large city to city only). Of course Malaysia isn’t as developed as Singapore, but it’s nowhere as bad as they like to paint it. The truth is Malaysia is one of the most powerful nationalities right up there with the Singaporean passport (see the list of the first world passports for the automatic passport scan gates in the EU) and Singaporeans just can’t deal. Won’t go into details here - Kuala Lumpur does fall short on some aspects as compared to Singapore - but the reality is that a middle class employee has a much better quality of life in KL than in Singapore (they can actually afford cars and condos) while a middle class Singaporean is stressed and rushed and packed into crowded public transport and tiny HDBs. Also Singapore isn’t as rich or truly developed first world country as they like to imagine it - there is a lot of hidden poverty and misery in Singapore (you see severely disabled people having to sell tissues to survive or the very elderly having to work), and how they treat their maids and laborers is as bad, if not worse, as in poor countries. At least middle class Malaysians can afford to put their maids in a room larger than a literal box, unlike Singaporeans.

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