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Got a slight chance of working over there for a year or so.
Anyone on here out there, what's the ex-pats life like?
 
My mate's spent a bit of time there recently. Orchid Towers (IIRC), with it's famous four floors is a decent night apparently. A Vietnamese double cost him about £75. ;)
 
Aye, good place and a great hub to get away and explore other bits of SE Asia. It's not prohibitively expensive if you're working ... eating out is cheap, transport, taxis etc. cheap(ish) and plentiful. Accomodation is expensive compared to here, but I'm sure that will be covered by your employer, at least in part. Ex-pats are hit and miss ... plenty of arseholes but certainly not all. A year sounds a great option as if you don't like it you know it'll soon be over, if you do then enjoy it and work on options for extension. Do it.
 
Aye, good place and a great hub to get away and explore other bits of SE Asia. It's not prohibitively expensive if you're working ... eating out is cheap, transport, taxis etc. cheap(ish) and plentiful. Accomodation is expensive compared to here, but I'm sure that will be covered by your employer, at least in part. Ex-pats are hit and miss ... plenty of arseholes but certainly not all. A year sounds a great option as if you don't like it you know it'll soon be over, if you do then enjoy it and work on options for extension. Do it.

Aye. I guess it would be like anywhere but in the brief time I've spent there the ex-pats I came across (UK & US folk) were pretty much all tossers. Unlike other parts of Asia where I found both. But I guess that comes with it being a business hub too.
 
Aye. I guess it would be like anywhere but in the brief time I've spent there the ex-pats I came across (UK & US folk) were pretty much all tossers. Unlike other parts of Asia where I found both. But I guess that comes with it being a business hub too.

I agree - the finance lot seem utter cocks in the main. I've met others through my mate that works there and they're just normal lads. I think the thing is the nature of ex-pattery in the main is that you're there to earn more money than you would at home, so it attracts a lot whose main conversation revolves around money, theirs, others (often yours, what and how you earn it) and the making of it. Dull as shite.
 
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This place is a must visit.

Oh and big eats, in sembawang village is also a must.

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This place is a must visit.

Oh and big eats, in sembawang village is also a must.

After a long flight (my first ever), courtesy of British Caledonian, I wasn't quite expecting the humidity when I arrived. The clothes I had were fine for Carnaby Street but absolutely useless from the moment I got off the aircraft at Paya Lebar. It was like walking into a steam bath. I eventually struggled up Triumph's gangway and was led to my mess - 21 communicators in theory, but this was very much a married man's 'draft' and only about six lived onboard. Once I'd shed my UK clothes I was taken ashore to the Dockyard Canteen so that (as I gradually realised) I could spend my money on my new oppos (messmates). So this was Singapore - monsoon ditches, strange smells, wonderful roadside food (no, not hedgehogs) and cheap beer. I was going to like it. I was shown the delights of the bars in Sembawang village, where somebody tried to sell me to a young lady for a couple of beers. He failed - I was only worth one beer. I used to be able to remember the names of all the 15 or so bars on the street (of about 300 yards) but, if you knew the place, I'll just mention the Avondale, Teddy, London, Melbourne, Modern, and Lucky. The food, mostly at outside kitchens, was great, though of uncertain origin - you didn't see many cats walking around - but for a couple of dollars (about five shillings, or 25 pence) you could get a really good Malay meal - the famous Nasi Goreng, Mah Mee soup, Mee Hoon, as well as the excellent and exotic 'egg banjo'.
 
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