S'pore - 53rd most liveable
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Feb 12, 2010 - The Straits Times by Jessica Lim
SINGAPORE scores highly in areas like infrastructure and stability, but fares poorly in culture and living environment indices.
As a result, it was ranked the 53rd most liveable city in the annual survey by the The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), which compared 140 cities worldwide. Vancouver again topped the list, followed by Vienna and Melbourne in Australia. Three other Australian cities also made it to the top 10 list - Sydney, Perth and Adelaide.
The Republic scored better than culture capitals New York and London, which lost out because of crumbling infrastructure, but lagged behind other Asian capitals like Hong Kong, Tokyo and Osaka.
The survey examined 30 factors in five categories - stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education as well as infrastructure. Singapore obtained an overall score of 88.5/100.
The annual survey uses research involving resident experts and its own analysts.
Singapore lost out in the environment and culture category, in which it scored 75.7/100, lower than Hong Kong and South Korea. But it got full marks for infrastructure. The Lion City also fared well for stability, healthcare and education.
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fares poorly in culture and living environment indices.
===> Our money is not well spent to pay ministers world class salary and this is what we get.
World class paid minister does not equal providing excellent living environment . We are so shortchanged
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Originally posted by Fantagf:
fares poorly in culture and living environment indices.
===> Our money is not well spent to pay ministers world class salary and this is what we get.
World class paid minister does not equal providing excellent living environment . We are so shortchanged
Overall we have dropped from 26 to 53. Something is not right.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Overall we have dropped from 26 to 53. Something is not right.
Never mind la
Overall score 88.5/100 very good liao. A+ score leh!
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
Overall we have dropped from 26 to 53. Something is not right.
Yes. VEry soon, it is going to be much behind 53. -
Originally posted by eagle:
Never mind la
Overall score 88.5/100 very good liao. A+ score leh!
It's not nice being falling behind, if can't keep up; soon we'll be out of the 100.
A third class/economy class city to talk about.
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
It's not nice being falling behind, if can't keep up; soon we'll be out of the 100.
A third class/economy class city to talk about.
Never mind la.
88.5/100 still good score. We happy can already.
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Originally posted by eagle:
Never mind la.
88.5/100 still good score. We happy can already.
We topped last year in Asia, now so far away...
Everyone hope to improve, if dun care why not let it rot hor?
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
We topped last year in Asia, now so far away...
Everyone hope to improve, if dun care why not let it rot hor?
Well said. It simply reflects the performance of the world class paid ministers. -
We should be quite proud of ourselves, we rank Top 10 in Mercer's Cost of Living survey. At least we are good in something, PAP not that bad, we managed to be Top 10 most expensive place to live in.
http://www.mercer.com/costoflivingpr
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
We should be quite proud of ourselves, at least we rank Top 10 in Mercer's Cost of Living survey. At least we are good in something, PAP not that bad, we managed to be Top 10 expensive place to live in.
http://www.mercer.com/costoflivingpr
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Originally posted by βÎτά:
We should be quite proud of ourselves, we rank Top 10 in Mercer's Cost of Living survey. At least we are good in something, PAP not that bad, we managed to be Top 10 most expensive place to live in.
http://www.mercer.com/costoflivingpr
Indeed! Our illustrious ministers can now pat themselves on the back and reward themselves with another round of hefty but well deserved pay increases!
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Originally posted by Chew Bakar:
It's not nice being falling behind, if can't keep up; soon we'll be out of the 100.
A third class/economy class city to talk about.
Never mind if spore fall out of 100 placing.What matter most is jobs, house and ever increasing bills that is top priority for sporean.
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Originally posted by Meia Gisborn:
Indeed! Our illustrious ministers can now pat themselves on the back and reward themselves with another round of hefty but well deserved pay increases!
And at the same time stretch their lead of being the world highest paid politicians!
You are smart indeed!
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Originally posted by eagle:
And at the same time stretch their lead of being the world highest paid politicians!
You are smart indeed!
It will remain number ONE spot for many many donkey years. -
Originally posted by eagle:
And at the same time stretch their lead of being the world highest paid politicians!
You are smart indeed!
At least we are No.1 in something.
We have to maintain the ranking.
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Govt should do more and put in more effort to help the pple.
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Hmm - gotta pop into Vancouver and Vienna to see what they've got.
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You mean Hongcouver?
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