Recently, Singapore has become popular, and it has been on the hot search continuously, dominating the screen of tourist hotspots:
Singapore visa-free", "The first batch of visa-free middle-class people to go to Singapore have gone bankrupt", "Singapore's visa-free will become poor if you are not careful".
With hundreds of millions of readings and hundreds of thousands of interactions, every topic has set off heated discussions among netizens.
On Chinese New Year's Eve this year, Singapore's visa-free for Chinese tourists officially came into effect. Just in time for the Spring Festival to go abroad, a large number of tourists turned their heads and hurriedly changed their itinerary, came to Singapore for a free trip, and stepped on the visa-free 0:00 moment to enter the country smoothly.
Originally, everyone was full of interest, thinking that there was a bright light and free time, but they never expected that they would become poor eggs without paying attention, and even their pants were almost gone when they came back!
Everyone couldn't help but shout, "Singapore is too expensive!" ”
Some netizens joked: Visa free is not free, and there is only one Singapore between the middle class and bankruptcy.
Someone else said: "Singapore is very good, I won't come next time!" ”
On only one trip to Singapore, netizens fell from the clouds to the ground, what happened to this huge gap?
A paradise for the rich, the poor really can't afford to spend
After the introduction of the visa-free policy between China and Singapore, the number of Chinese tourists entering Singapore skyrocketed.
Everyone can't help but worry: after the visa exemption, Singapore will be crowded.
That's true! Singapore has fallen, and there are people everywhere.
Of course, traveling to popular places will be overcrowded, which is simply the norm for Chinese, and everyone is used to it.
But compared to hand-to-hand combat, everyone is more speechless about "expensive meat"!
How expensive is it to travel to Singapore? #On this topic, the most discussed is that air tickets and hotels in Singapore are ridiculously expensive!
Some netizens flew from Beijing to Singapore on the third day of the Lunar New Year and returned on the seventh day of the Lunar New Year, and the two economy class tickets cost 14,613 yuan. The ticket price of 3,000 yuan on weekdays has risen to nearly 8,000 yuan, which has nearly tripled.
Similarly, Singapore hotels soared during the Spring Festival, and the 15-square-meter economy room could only fit a 1.8-meter-high bed, equipped with a mini bathroom, which cost more than 1,000 yuan, and a decent ordinary single room was at least 3,000 yuan a night.
A tourist in Hangzhou spent nearly 62,000 yuan just to book a hotel for 4 days, which is just an ordinary local five-star hotel. Many people sighed that this ** can go to the Maldives for a ride.
Expensive air tickets and hotels pierced everyone's hearts, and after cutting their flesh in pain, they thought they could breathe, but they were "bruised all over the body" by the next high prices.
Get off the plane, take a taxi and go straight to the hotel, chatting with the driver in the car, and unconsciously paused when I took my mobile phone to checkout:
The 2-kilometer journey cost 98 yuan.
I was thirsty, I came to the convenience store to buy a bottle of mineral water, and I was shocked to find that the domestic water costs 2 yuan, which costs 105 RMB.
Go to the restaurant to eat, order three or five ordinary dishes casually, you can't get down without 500 yuan, and you need to pay 2 to ask the waiter for a glass of water5 yuan, or a cup of calculation**. In an instant, nothing was fragrant.
I finally came to Singapore, how could I not eat Singapore's famous dish Jumbo chili crab, and when I saw the list of 1222 yuan at the checkout, I thought I was dazzled.
I had a meal in Singapore and I found outIn addition to the dishes**, there is a 9% GST plus 10% service charge.
No one can accept spending thousands of dollars a day to eat, and then turn around and come to Singapore Food Court or Hawker Center to eat, which is the same configuration as the university cafeteria in China, which is a little simpler, but a piece of food is only 20-60 yuan, and they are happy to eat.
Everyone sighed that "Singapore is worthy of being the most expensive city in the world", and even Singaporeans who shared tables to eat sarcastically: "Singapore prices are crazy." ”
To tell the truth, Singapore is really not suitable for poor travel, the domestic middle class comes to Singapore and directly becomes the bottom, and people who do not earn more than 10,000 a month really can't afford it.
Singapore is a paradise for the rich, and only the rich are welcome.
There is no quality, and the fine will be punished until you cry
It's expensive, it's expensive, anyway, if you don't stay for a few days, it's good to save it" Everyone had this idea, but they were caught off guard that there were "assassins" waiting for them behind them.
Singapore is also known as "fine city", which is both a beautiful city and an allusion to the city of fines.
The country's fine system is strict, detailed, and pervasive, and the huge fines make tourists become poor if they don't pay attention.
Take a cup of milk tea into the subway, and you will definitely become the focus of the staff. Eating any food, including taking a sip of water, is strictly prohibited on the Singapore MRT, and once it is violated, it faces a fine of 2,650 yuan.
After rushing to the toilet and forgetting to flush, the detector in the toilet immediately sounded, and as soon as he got out of the toilet door, the security guard put one out$798 fineIt's in your hands.
You can't bear it, you want to smoke a cigarette to extinguish the fire, as a resultIf you don't smoke in the designated smoking area in Singapore, the price of a cigarette is $5,320, a month's living expenses are gone.
After filling your stomach, pat your ass and leaveIf you don't clean up the dishes and wipe the table, you receive a fine of 1,500 yuan.
Spitting, littering, crossing the street, singing in public, and verbally abusive are punishable by fines or imprisonment, ranging from a few hundred to tens of thousands.
Singapore's fine system covers all aspects of a person's daily life.
So, netizens advised: "People who are not very qualified, don't go to Singapore!" ”
Be careful, you can still avoid these fines, but there are some systems in Singapore that are really hard to prevent!
In your own home or hotel, you are naked, and you are accidentally seen by someone outside the window, and you receive a report**, and the law enforcement officers come to collect more than 10,000 fines, and if you don't give it, you will be imprisoned for 3 months.
Exhausted, you feel too wronged, pick up your mobile phone and tell your family.
As a result, I don't know how to rub into other people's wifi, which is serious, and I accidentally became a hacker, and I either paid a huge fine of 53,200 yuan, or squatted in the Singapore bureau for 3 years.
If you want to chew gum, you can't buy it all over Singapore, and you are told by the locals that you have to take a car to Malaysia next door and come back after eating and vomiting, otherwise you will be fined again.
Don't think that if you do it secretly, you don't know, Singapore is full of plainclothes police, and as soon as they break the law, several police officers will immediately pounce.
This country uses money to control people, and it is better to solve it with money, which is better than going to jail or being whipped.
Graffiti in public places, drunk driving, etc., are punishable by caning. The night before the execution, the whip was soaked in salt water, and only the buttocks were whipped, one whip was fleshy, two were fleshy and bloody, and three were unconscious.
When visiting Singapore, it's important not to study the route, but to study the laws and regulations.
Why is Singapore so expensive, which cannot be climbed
Singapore is a small country, with an area of only 1,50 of Hainan Island, and it is only 1 hour's drive across the country.
As the only developed country in Southeast Asia, it has topped the list of "the most expensive cities in the world" for 6 consecutive years, why is Singapore so expensive?
Singapore has the Strait of Malacca, an international transportation fortress, which has always been contested by various countries, and has become a source of income after being reclaimed.
In addition to the sea,Singapore has few other resources, no mountains, little fresh water, almost all of which are supplied by Malaysia, and almost all of which are imported.
The cost of living remains high due to the lack of living materials to meet Singapore's population of nearly 6 million and more than 1 million immigrants.
The word "expensive" is like a sharp knife stuck in the body of generations of Singaporeans.
Under the governance of Lee Kuan Yew, the "light of the Chinese", and his son Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore got rid of the tertiary industry and developed high-end industries
Top biopharmaceuticals, 60% of the world's top 10 drugs are made in Singapore; export 10% of the world's chips and semiconductors; Replace Hong Kong as Asia's financial centre.
More than 50% of the Asian headquarters of the world's top 500 companies have set up headquarters in Singapore.
Such a Singapore naturally attracts capital and elites from all over the world, and it is difficult not to get rich.
Among rich countries, Singapore ranks in the top five, with a GDP per capita income of 830,000 US dollars, while China has just entered 10,000 US dollars and Hong Kong has more than 40,000 US dollars.
And because of the epidemic, global inflation, and the appreciation of the Singapore dollar, Chinese have to spend more money on this trip than in previous years.
Rising prices make tourists very unhappy:Singapore is too expensive to afford!
Even Singaporeans are crying out "I can't live anymore!" ”
Of course, there is no denying that Singapore is a charming country that attracts not only Chinese, but also people from all over the world.
Singapore is known as the "ceiling of Forest City" and "the country with the lowest crime rate in the world", and its cultural diversity and high quality can easily win the favor of the public.
Changi Airport is surrounded by greenery, with a giant waterfall cascading down the air; The giant flowers blooming at Gardens by the Bay are like traveling back to the world of Avatar, which are the most popular check-in spots for Internet celebrities.
There are few natural and cultural attractions in Singapore, and tourists mainly enjoy the Straits of Malacca, various buildings and man-made attractions.
Visiting Singapore is actually a visit to a modern city.
There is no shortage of modern cities in China, and after seeing the appearance of Chinese cities, everyone is somewhat disappointed with Singapore's tourism.
At one time, Singapore was almost blown to the sky on the Chinese internet.
Affluent Singapore, whether for tourism, investment or immigration, has always attracted many middle-class and wealthy people in China.
Jet Li, Vanke founder Wang Shi and others immigrated to Singapore, and in the past few days, there has been a hot search on "Ma Yun's wife buying a house in Singapore".
After this wave of tourism, Singapore's filter was completely broken, and everyone found out that Singapore was generally considered to be "livable and travelable" in China, but the real situation was not.
More and more Chinese, after coming to Singapore, love the motherland more, the moon in foreign countries is really not as beautiful as home, or China is better!
We have a vast and beautiful land, a long history and splendid culture, abundant materials, and noisy fireworks in the world, which warms the hearts of China the most.
The author of this article |Not small.
Editor-in-Charge |Blue orange.
Curated |Faint emerald.