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jeronimo002 t1_ivydf3c wrote

Housing is ridiculously expensive worldwide.

The sittuation however is much better than hongkong!

Comparing it to the US makes ZERO sense. Singapore was still a develloping country in 1992 while today, the US is becoming a develloping country if they continue on their track.

Singapore has a considerable higher purchasing power than hong kong

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Hong+Kong&city1=Hong+Kong&country2=Singapore&city2=Singapore

You can't point to a single cause, but probably housing has catapulted Singapore above what it could be if it took the hong kong approach.

Singapore has overtaken the GDP per cap by 50% compared to hong kong in the graphs period and the prices don't show that.

again, the whole world has expensive houses (Neoliberalism does that). the US and Europe have the same problems, probably even worse!

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