cost of living in singapore
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How many hundreds or thousands can you save from that hairbrain scheme???Originally posted by Jem777:He said order, not not drink. You can still drink, but not buy it from a stall right? -
Transport cost so much meh? Me spend abt $60 nia..Originally posted by Deino:for transportation
1 day, 4 rides eg...2bus and 2 train rides for the whole day...
$5....
1month/30 days=$150
Food....
A standard lunch including drinks should cost around $7 depending on what you spend on......Unless you can survive on prata for whole month which is around 70 cents per piece for a plain and 1.30 per piece prata with for eggs
Say you spend 7x3x30=630
If you can survive on 2eggs and a plain for every meal including a drink which would cost around 1.20, you'd be spending like 4.50
So 4.5x3x30=405
You could be saving alot but i dun think you'd want to survive only on prata and iced milo....
i'd conclude an average meal to be around $7 and transportation to be around $5.....
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Depending on how often and where you eat out, quite a bit. Let's say it costs 1.20 a pop, if you eat out twice a day, it's 2.40. 2.40x20=40.80. It's quite a bit for a student.Originally posted by maurizio13:How many hundreds or thousands can you save from that hairbrain scheme??? -
I am not looking in the perpective of a student, more for working adults.Originally posted by Jem777:Depending on how often and where you eat out, quite a bit. Let's say it costs 1.20 a pop, if you eat out twice a day, it's 2.40. 2.40x20=40.80. It's quite a bit for a student.
The school canteen has cheaper food. -
Not really, it's about the same price (poly/uni,). Depends on how tight your budget is no? Even if you're a working adult. Food in the cbd area isn't exactly the cheapest. And oh, you can save about 500 a year. I have much better use for $500 than to spend it on drinks.Originally posted by maurizio13:I am not looking in the perpective of a student, more for working adults.
The school canteen has cheaper food. -
But that is your perspective, you can't deny that others might prefer drinks with their meals.Originally posted by Jem777:Not really, it's about the same price (poly/uni,). Depends on how tight your budget is no? Even if you're a working adult. Food in the cbd area isn't exactly the cheapest. And oh, you can save about 500 a year. I have much better use for $500 than to spend it on drinks.
Yes it's about $500 a year, but it's the most basic need, the need for food and drinks. If the system doesn't even provide you with the most fundamental need, that perhaps there is something wrong with the system. A system where the leaders bleed the commoners thru taxes to sustain their sky high salary is not the right system. If the salaries of leaders were $1 million (which is already extremely high, considering the US president gets less than US$500,000 a year) and the excess of 2-3 million of these dozen so Ministers are distributed to the poor. How many more families can these amount feed?
A person can walk or cycle to work too, it will save him $120 a month and $1,440 a year. More savings than your drink, keeps your healthy too.
If you save on clothes, for 1 year you can save $1,500 a year. -
I'm not saying you should deprive people of their meals, I bring my own water from home/water fountain at work/school. But yeah I'm pretty much against the current salaries our politicians are drawing. I need more justification for that.Originally posted by maurizio13:But that is your perspective, you can't deny that others might prefer drinks with their meals.
Yes it's about $500 a year, but it's the most basic need, the need for food and drinks. If the system doesn't even provide you with the most fundamental need, that perhaps there is something wrong with the system. A system where the leaders bleed the commoners thru taxes to sustain their sky high salary is not the right system. If the salaries of leaders were $1 million (which is already extremely high, considering the US president gets less than US$500,000 a year) and the excess of 2-3 million of these dozen so Ministers are distributed to the poor. How many more families can these amount feed?
A person can walk or cycle to work too, it will save him $120 a month and $1,440 a year. More savings than your drink, keeps your healthy too.
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Don't you find it weird, a person works all day, he can't even afford to have 3 meals with proper drinks in a coffee shop.Originally posted by Jem777:I'm not saying you should deprive people of their meals, I bring my own water from home/water fountain at work/school. But yeah I'm pretty much against the current salaries our politicians are drawing. I need more justification for that.
Much like Animal Farm, the pigs feast in Manor's house while the other farm animals eat scraps. -
He probably could, depends on how much he budgets for his personal use I guess.Originally posted by maurizio13:Don't you find it weird, a person works all day, he can't even afford to have 3 meals with proper drinks in a coffee shop.
Much like Animal Farm, the pigs feast in Manor's house while the other farm animals eat scraps. -
Actually, while you're at it, why not ensure people can also afford napkins together with their food and drinks? No, make them wet wipes. They shouldn't be made to go to the toilet, you know - every person has a right to hygiene.