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Yes. The best advice is to start an SRS account today to beat the 10 year holding rule and withdraw at your current age of retirement. Since I opened an SRS the age of withdrawal has gone from 62 to 64.

For those of you following this thread - a very useful subreddit has started. It is interesting to see how few Singapore high earners maximise their tax deductions with either SRS or CPF VC.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singaporepayslips/

An alternative to new projects is simpler apartments. Avoid built in furniture. Insist on new or almost new white goods. Negotiate the repair clause down to $50.

Save the kid. You can buy enough time with legal maneuvering until they are at the age of majority. I was a fully grown adult of 40 before I realised this; the only authority that can force you to do something is the court - because they have the monopoly on legal punishments. No one else (cops, the...

I think you will get in (eventually).

Was your IDP from the local AA in Singaproe? It's a pretty automated process to issue them so I am surprised they messed up. There ARE counterfeit IDP's around (esp the ones you buy online) and your IDP issuing country MUST match the country your DL is from.

It may not have been approved in time by the mods.

Wow. What a turn around. Good to hear from you.

I grew up overseas so moving to Singapore (with just a suitcase) wasn't a shock.

What I'm finding hard is imagining how to leave now.

It does. People still commission art, books, designs. Even middle class people do it. Much rarer would be the someone locking in an exceptional talent under their exclusive patronage (like Michaelangelo and the Medici and Pope). You effectively see a form of this now in science and university chairs...

Pretty cheap

10k on reseller market

No

I have friends who just signed up to the Serangoon Garden club. Mainly to have something to do in retirement.

Australia is running about 2 years for partner visas (although if you can get an ETA into Australian your partner can then apply onshore and be in Australia during processing).

Mine is up by about 33% for a GE IP plan (best one). 3.5k

Saying that they've spent over 140k on me in the last 4 yr