'People need to understand one thing, if you want to demand the government to do something about your problems, please make sure you've done enough academic research about whether or not your problems are essential problems, or are they problems that are just characteristic of a modern metropolitan city, for if they are, there's really no solution to many of those problems,' he wrote.

Mr Shawcross, who is an economist, noted that many of the angst against Singapore are typical in many modern metropolitan cities. While largely praising Singapore for its efforts to address these issues, Mr Shawcross noted that there are still areas for improvement, such as laws against homosexuality. In his 2,064 -word answer, Mr Shawcross touched on the common sore points by detractors of Singapore, such as freedom of speech, cost of living and the cost of cars. 'I'm saying this objectively, because amid all the freedom, the welfare, the 'quality of life' that Singaporeans seem to admire about Scandinavian countries, or for some odd reason, the US and the UK, I sincerely doubt that any person with the desire to be in a competitive, fast-paced, ultra modern, yet clean, safe and economically solvent country would have any other options other than Singapore,' Mr Shawcross wrote.

SINGAPORE - An 'Ang Moh' who has been staying in Singapore for 10 years gave his take on ' Why do people hate Singapore?' on Saturday (June 18), attracting nearly 100,000 views on question-and-answer website Quora within 24 hours.Īs a 'foreign talent', Theodore Shawcross described Singapore as 'the closest you can get to a near perfectly run country'.

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