Found 2 interesting website that made fairly good comparison in my opinion. Some background for me, I lived in singapore for 15 years of my early life , served ns and have decided to remain in australia. I live in perth which is on the western side of australia where our mining boom is carrying the whole australia’s economy.
In my own opinion this is my take on why I choose to call Australia, Perth my home:
- You own a car and you can actually drive it unlike singapore where you spend your time in traffic.
- Free parking
- Average medium housing affordability is higher in australia with its higher mortgage interest rate but bigger house, better living environment. Its so quiet here at night your ear rings.
- You own your land.. forever!! no 99 years bullshit
- Better PPP(purchasing parity power) due to higher income even though higher taxes >.<
- no need to think how much bonus we going to get.. its no guess work cause you probably get none :p Some companies do give up options and shares as bonuses.
- Friendlier people to some degree even though there are bogans around. Depends on the area u hang out and where you live.
- No Singlish. It really makes me cringe sometimes when I hear the “steady lah” , “how ah”, “how? good or not” ,”eat where” etc etc. My God!!! i don’t speak perfect english but i do make an attempt to change. There are some singlish in me but slowly but surely, I will iron them out 🙂
- no prc asking you to fuk them for 100 bucks everytime you see a pretty asian around and you perv at them from the corner of your eyes :p cause most prc here are pretty well off.
The other website
http://willwen.blogspot.com/2007/05/australia-vs-singapore.html
that give a comparison of living culture
Work:
Australia: Higher salaries, better environment (shorter hours and more leaves), workers have more rights. Howard is doing his best to take them away though.
Singapore: Easier to find professional work, pretty much everyone I know who went there found a job in very short time. Bonuses can be very good in good times and can make up for the lower base salaries.
Housing:
Australia: Much cheaper, both in actual prices and annual property taxes. This is when you compare apple to apple, eg. private apt vs private apt, landed properties vs landed properties of similar size, not average houses here vs hdb flats there.
Singapore: Lower mortgage interest rate.
Food:
Australia: Has authentic foods from all over the world, by authentic I mean the chefs who prepare them are either from those countries or descendant of migrants from there.
Singapore: Cheap ‘kopitiam’ foods are everywhere! The local dishes (mee pok, katong laksa, fish head curries, chilly crab, stingray etc, damn mentioning them make me hungry) are best to be had locally.
House chores:
Australia: Labor is expensive, you have to do everything yourselves unless you are filthy rich!
Singapore: Indonesian maids can be hired at ~S$300 (plus another $300 to government) a month.
Transport:
Australia: Car is cheap, public transport is nowhere near Singapore’s quality, taxi drivers are hopelessly rude and don’t know their way.
Singapore: Superb public transport, cheap taxis, owning your own car is bloody expensive though.
Health care:
Australia: Everyone (citizens and PRs) is covered by Medicare. Waiting list can be long for non life threatening surgeries under public system though so many people have private health insurance anyway.
Singapore: Follow American system. Afaik, no such thing as public health care. Health insurance is normally provided by employers.
Government:
Australia: Democratic government, freedom of speech, people can openly criticize and complain against the government of the day without fear of reprisals.
Singapore: Virtually one party system, autocratic government. Heavily censored/government controlled media.
Crime Rate:
Australia: Pretty safe, I have never been robbed/assaulted/burglared in my eight years here (touch wood). It does happen though, and certainly more often than in Singapore.
Singapore: Gotta be one of the safest place in the world.
Racist:
Australia: My worst experience is limited to minor inconvenient like having a couple of idiots yelling racist taunts as they drive past. Under Howard and his fear mongering policies, Australia is becoming more mean and less tolerant though. His fear mongering is currently directed at Muslims so it doesn’t really affect us yet. Considering our economy is highly dependent on resources export to China I can’t imagine him driving his fear policy against Chinese anytime soon, but you never know.
Singapore: Will have to ask a non Chinese to find out how it compares. But as part of the majority Chinese, it wouldn’t affect us.
Migrant treatment:
Australia: Eligible for some benefits (medicare, first home buyer grant, childcare rebates, etc) from day 1. After the first 2 years, PR has pretty much similar rights to citizen and access to all (afaik) kind of social security payment. Only restrictions are the obvious ones like residency requirement to extend PR, no rights to vote, stand for political office, some sensitive defense/intelligent jobs, and university fee loans (many PRs rorted the HECS by going back to their country after uni and never repaying a single cent of their HECS debt, hence the rule change).
Singapore: 2nd class citizen, can’t buy new HDB, do not get most of government subsidies or handouts. Basically you don’t get much (if any) benefits of the taxes you pay until you become citizen.
Taxes:
Australia: One of the highest income taxes in the world. It obviously depends on your incomes, deductions etc. You can expect to pay up to A$26k tax on A$100k annual salary in 2008/2009 financial year. GST is 10%.
Singapore: Low income tax. Property and vehicle taxes are much higher though. You can expect to pay up to S$7k tax on S$100k annual salary in 2008. GST is 7%.
Travel:
Australia: Far from everywhere, airfares alone are so expensive. Very strong A$ stretches further when traveling overseas. Plenty of domestic holiday destinations.
Singapore: Exotic destinations in their backyard within S E Asia. Travel to most destinations is cheaper and nearer.
Weather:
Australia: 4 seasons in a year, heck Melbourne is renowned of having 4 seasons in a day. We get the snows in the mountain and the ocassional crazy 40+ degree days in summer.
Singapore: Tropical all year round.
National Service:
Singapore: Your sons will have to serve 2 full years of National Service in the Singapore Defence Force.
Nightlife & Dating scene:
Can’t tell much as we are married and do not have a clubbing and drinking lifestyle.
Anyone disagree or have something to add? It’s obvious which one I think is better for us overall as I have voted with my feet. Like I said though, other may find it the other way. I always recommend people to visit their intended migration destination before making the plunge. It’s a big decision, too big to be made based on hearsay. Don’t quit your job or sell your house until you have seen first hand the place and culture and you like what you see.
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will love to stay in australia one day but cant stand the racism there ! freaking bad 😦
stayed there for a few months love it except for a few f- ups
It really depends on which area you stayed in. The kawi lou here are getting used to the presence of us chinese here and have grown to accept us. But there are areas/suburbs where the uneducated bogans lives in and can be quite unpleasant to live in
It was only aimed at Muslims
But now it’s even targets Europeans who are not of British descent some eastern Europeans have been abused but over all racism is not too bad
Indian Singaporean here – lived 32 years in Singapore and never faced any sort of racism that made me wanna go commando on my Chinese friends. Teasing happens alot, from all three races at each other, but all in the name of good fun. Many of my friends in the minority feel the same way. Singapore is a beautiful place to live in, regardless of which race or faith u belong to.
As compared to Australia, where I’ve been a tourist a few times, spending up to a couple of months each trip. Didn’t take me long to see racism, at the most within 3 days. And at least 3-4 times within 2 months.
In my opinion, racism is alive and well in Australia. Don’t take this offensively though, its just a conclusion I came to based on my own experiences and comparisons between both countries. Someone else may have a different set of experiences and a different opinion.
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I’m Indonesian living in Sydney. I’d say Singapore is definitely better. Everything is close by and you can get them easily. In Australia, when you live in a suburb, you either have to get on the bus or drive JUST to get some stuff. The technology is also slower compared to Singapore. In Sydney, they’re just introducing the opal card for public transport, which is basically the card that you guys have been using for a long time in Singapore. Racism is also well and alive. I was told to “go back to China” when I’m not even from China. People here are somehow quite ignorant, especially the Asian Australians. Some of them love complaining about the “FOB” students and workers on social media and social setting. Some of them even believe that ALL Asians use chopsticks which is absolutely not true. And I have heard many cases where people have to change their name in order to be ‘noticed’ by potential employers here. The salary is higher compared to the one people may earn in Singapore but, so is the tax. We, Asians, rule in the nightlife entertainment industry. Hands down. All the foreigners that I’ve met have complained that Australia is boring. I, too, complain Australia is boring. Shops close at 5/6pm except on Thursdays (in Sydney). Only Asian restaurants, some pubs and nightclubs are open after that. Someone who has lived in Perth once said to me “There is almost no traffic and at first, you’ll love it! Then the novelty wears off and you realise it’s just too quiet.” The weather is good but keeps on changing everyday, especially in Sydney and Melbourne. And everything else is just way more expensive even if you earn money here in OZ.
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