If you live in a dystopia like NY, you have to leave a large cushion between yourself and anybody who looks sketchy.

That means being prepared to sprint the other direction at a moment's notice.

Europe is following the US in the process of ghetto-ization for all their cities, so the only non-dystopic cities left tend to be in Asia, like Singapore.

So where to PP...Monaco?? Best place to meet someone who owns a yacht.

Diet seems to be one of the driving factors behind the indigenous' longevity, notice that they are all near coastlines. The current list according to Wackipedia:
1 Japan
2 Hong Kong
3 Israel
4 Italy
5 Iceland
6 Australia
7 Singapore
8 Spain
9 Sweden
10 Macau

*Singapore lah.

6 more comments have been lost in the ether at this killed duplicate.

>> ^mintbbb:
Sorry, but a dupe of mine <IMG class=smiley src="http://cdn.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/frown.gif">
http://videosift.com/video/Parking-Lamborghini-In-The-Living-Room-In-A-Scyscraper


Thanks Mint. Sorry about that!

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

>> ^jjw001:
so what happens when more than 1 super rich guy wants to come/leave around the same time?

They're just gonna have to request another bailout to build that second lift. Why should these people have to wait just so some poor assholes can keep their houses?
IT'S IN SINGAPORE!

not to degrade the seriousness of what Assange may have done in Sweden to those poor gals, but can you imagine for a second what would happen if you switch the type of crime and the country it was done in? Lets say, as a food for thought, that Assange was involved in some selling of chewing gum in Singapore and they want to extradite him for that offence. Would you then consider this crime as insignificant enough? After all, being in jail for selling some chewing gum is silly!

I doubt he'd be giving this giant "fuck you" to society if he lived in Singapore.

@peter12

As long as Singapore has vastly superior metrics compared to any Western society, criticisms that their culture doesn't conform to Western values seem ineffective

Personally, I have little use for crime, so I'd prefer there be less of it.

>> ^spoco2:

Fuck I hate thieves... Just fucking hate their self centred little shitty brains.
Have had things stolen from cars before. Have had my car's locks ruined by someone trying to break into it. Have had to move house largely because my wife couldn't stand to be there any more after a thief broke in and stole a heap of things while she was taking the kids to school.
Just fucking hate them. WORK FOR YOUR FUCKING STUFF.


Singapore's policies seem to work pretty well on that count. The West? Not so much.

When Westerners visit Singapore, they're amazed at how clean and successful as a society it is.

I like Putin's Russia. Singapore runs in a similar way too.

@yellowc It really does seem like it could go that way, and thinking about it, I really wouldn't discount it as a possibility. I could really imagine panglish to become an official language of singapore, which would very well provide a common language for everyone there. However, for these people to become completely uninterested in english would require a complete disinterest in all english news & television, and for the world powers to stop speaking english =P. Otherwise, they'd have to be like western european countries, where they work very hard to preserve the purity of their native language...but for an ad-hoc language, I don't know how that's possible.

I think it's more about where the language is going rather than where it is now.


So you could ask for "orange juice" or "oren tzu" from the bar tender now...but what about the bar tender who's 5 now or yet even born? It would seem to be trending that he simply has stopped giving a shit at appeasing western pronunciation or is even aware of it. It is not "English" any more, they've stopped trying to speak it, they now speak "Panglish". Maybe they stop bothering to hire foreign teachers to aid in teaching English who will make these corrections and they say, "You know, our Panglish teachers are good enough...and cheaper and we don't have to give them accommodation and...".

>> ^draak13:

@artician That's quite interesting. I've known several people from singapore, malaysia, bangladesh, china, japan, vietnam, philipinnes, etc...I've never run into this phenomenon, though far be it from saying it doesn't exist. Though, so long as the standardized english language media is being broadcast, I'd be surprised if the vast majority of the people who spoke 'panglish' couldn't also understand western english.