British man gets emotional becoming a Singapore Citizen 

You definitely don’t get that from QANTAS as maybe they may charge you much more. Profit is what Alan Joyce wants. And his A$28M golden handshake soon when he retires. No humanity from AJ, pure commercial transaction

Fly only SIA mate

I misses countless times or changes frights but never charge me a single cent. That’s why I only fly through SQ

@@alanbgtanBA is the worst k experienced .

Well, those box meals were definitely not compassionate 😂. But seriously, kudos to SIA.

Blue or red ? Don’t worry we welcome both 😊

You're making a big mistake bozo. Don't come to Singapore and stay in Europe. I was in manny for an exchange programme recently and my life there was infinite times better than being in Singapore.

@@Lelnubhax Because calling someone a bozo is going to make them change their mind. Welcome, Matt!

Welcome to Singapore in advance!

@@Lelnubhaxgoing overseas on an exchange program and thinking life is better. Duh because you were an exchange student. Try live as an adult first bozo

Govt hire influencers to put out fake positive views or hype things.

What do you make of Katong I12?

Bro thinks he slick trying to say Singapore is in China knowing damn well they are different countries. Attention seeking

@wahhwahhbunchababies please elaborate.

​@@user-fb7rf4kr5khe assumed you live in a cave like flinstones, no need for further elaboration

If you have passive income after retirement like Jim Rogers, then sure, Singapore is not expensive at all, quite affordable in fact, for all the benefits like security and quality of services

Glad to hear that!

Yeah, the mics were off at this one and Jim Rogers one. So we had to recover audio from cameras using numerous tools, including AI

@@MaxChernov Well all things considered then, that's pretty impressive and pretty cool. :)

Cor blimey, mate! Oi agree, we should learn some bleedin' better English, innit, bruv! Polish it up a lil' so others can have a butcher's at what we're sayin' innit?

@@finding_aetherNAHH 💀

Singlish makes us singaporeans uniquely singaporean

Dude english is easiest of foreign languages especially for the predominantly mandarin speakers in Sg. Most choose to speak local Singlish but of course they can easily make a switch when the need arises.

To me...as long the message is relayed.....can already mah😂😂...everybody has their own style own way of speaking...

Hahaha

Too late. Yishun has created its branding since.

Now Lady Halimah have stepped down, Yishun probably gonna revolt for independency and call for a republic state ....

But u never tell us where you moved to

Guess you found out much earlier the truth behind the phrase..."NS for Sinkie, Good jobs for FTs"😆😆😆😆

Went there almost every year for 20 years. The traffic getting worst and worst. It's the traffic it's killing. Prefer Butterworth or bukit metajam.

Yup he’s smart and as he said there are some similarities in Penang but the cost of living will be much lower which is great after retirement

Not sure why he said that, but it's not true. The most powerful passport in the world is the US passport.

@@AlexDrastico380 that’s because a recent ranking was published with SG being no.1 while the US passport has fewer visa free destinations

@@AlexDrastico380references please

@@idoit5005 Ah that kind of "powerful". Just the places where you can go without paperwork for a tourist visa.

The ball is round.

UK might be in EU for some right and wrong reasons but Brexit was definitely all for the wrong reasons.

@wahhwahhbunchababies I doubt that. Dunno where you get this fantasy from.

Singapore was once a State of Malaysia. That was a much tighter union than Britain and the EU. Independence was not an easy road.bzThere were many privations and difficulties. It could have easily failed. BREXIT may not succeed. There were many promises of fantastic trade deals and other treaties (each which subordinates sovereignty to some degree as they lift trade barriers, tariffs, and subordinate laws to commissions that oversee the treaty). That fantastic trade treaty with the USA, promised by DT has still.not manifested. He did nothing to move it forward on equitable terms. It was, as should have been expected, "America First". Many British expats living or doing business in Europe face additional hardships of residency, travel, and trade. Retired expats living for ages in Europe have seen their lives upended.

Lol me too

There are more out there. My husband included - he also eats durian, stinky tofu, natto... He's strange. 😂

me too lol

30 degrees C and over as hot day right on the equator, Singapore is a little north of the equator so 28 degrees C is about right back then.

@maxchernov do you agree? Try asking your interviewees about this.

I am thinking the same thing too. That's when they really show true allegiance to S'pore

Besides allegiance, it’s a sure way to integrate in the society. To see beyond shiny buildings, efficient public transport and affordable hawker food …

I should’ve asked

Liverpool😜

Yes... definitely Liverpool! YNWA 😂

There are many advantages to becoming a naturalised citizen. The main one is that you're no longer just a guest so your life there is no longer conditional on anything, you can't be booted out because you don't have the right visa because obviously you have a visa. If you are a US citizen and therefore subject to global taxation there's an obvious MASSIVE advantage which is why the Facebook co founder did it and pays 16 percent income tax not 40 percent. Plus you can vote or even run for some local office yourself. Finally as mentioned the Singapore passport is strongest in the world so gives you visa free access to more places than even an EU or US passport. However if I was going to end up with one of the weakest ones - like a Phillipines passport then yes I'd be much less keen.

I think the Philippines accepts dual nationality. While the US does have a global taxation regime it applies to both citizens and residents. So a Singaporean (or a Brazilian-American dual citizen) is subject to US taxes generated within the USA, and globally...subject to tax treaty. So even if one renounces a US citizenship escape from taxes earned there is not so easy. And there is a period of time (2 years) when one still has to file and pay taxes on global income. The US has fairly liberal tax rates and tax relief for those who do live, and are taxed abroad. Usually the US Citizen ends up only paying taxes on their gains on US income plus whatever local tax there is. Renouncers often discover that they have made a worse deal than they had before. They may be restricted from doing some types of business in the US esp. as a majority stakeholder. Fortunately a foreigner can still own land and be a minority shareholder. Some renouncers simply don't want to pay so much of their taxes to a government they don't like..but they will anyway unless they entirely pull up stakes. It's usually not smart to renounce unless one has fully looked into all aspects and really has cultural, familial and emotional tied to the new culture. He seems to have few regrets on breaking his links, but I bet on a Quiz night he'll do really well on UK history and pop culture and not so well on Pop Yeye or Shaw Brother films😂

@@gerrelldrawhorn8975 If the US genuinely had such a "liberal" global taxation policy then self evidently you wouldn't have people going through the lengthy, expensive and almost vindictively punitive process of renouncing citizenship in the first place. Pretty much everything you wrote here is objectively false, which makes me wonder why you wrote it. Perhaps you work for the IRS I don't know, but amongst my many expatriate friends here in Hong Kong, most democrat voters but a few republicans I've yet to hear one of them have anything remotely positive to say about their country's global taxation system. In point of fact it's so illiberal that they can't even open a bank account here with many ( actually almost all) major financial institutions as if the incredibly onerous reporting and auditing isn't perfect then the US gov will come after the bank itself - so it's simply not worth it to them to have US clients. I have a number of friends with net worths in excess of 5m USD here and looking to open an account with a private back and none will touch them with a ten foot pole. Meanwhile I'm worth less but I'm from the UK and I've had banks falling over themselves to take my money. As I understand it there's actually a branch office of the IRS now physically in Hong Kong to cover SE Asia and track down anyone in SE Asia they suspect of not being fully compliant. Certainly if it was easy many of my friends here would have renounced citizenship by now or at least seriously considered it as with 25 plus years here ( like me) they have to pay the difference every year between the 15 percent top rate in HK and the US top rate, which on their incomes is a lot of money. And yet they haven't lived in the US in decades and so aren't getting any of the benefits of their tax dollars. Not that there are many benefits of course as unlike being an EU or UK citizen it's not like you guys enjoy great free/ very cheap tertiary education or healthcare. And speaking of EU and UK citizens, we don't have Global taxation - thank god as I wouldn't be able to afford to live here if we did - so have none of the massive expense and hugely time consuming shennegans my friends have to go through.

Yes...a bit weird that the Malaysians are harsher on their former colony😂 than they are to their colonial masters😂.

@@gerrelldrawhorn8975 US & Japan passport holders also enjoy a 3 month visa free stay in Malaysia. I guess Singapore passport is classified as a non 1st world passport in the eyes of Malaysia government 🤣

Yes he would be quite surprised or he could be laughing too lol. He is very old though, so sometimes people make mistakes about whether he is still around

*NE singapore is further away from the equator.* that's why there is a slight cool breeze

Truthfully, I’ve never heard of someone renouncing their British nationality before. Hopefully it isn’t a revolving door.

Lots of interest from not just SG but INA CN HK TW people too who have been buying/renting in Penang. There are also direct flights to Penang from these places which is really convenient

Lol precisely😅 I shocked when I heard the late of my fave archi of Sendai Mediatheque. Oh no, better edit that part Max …

That’s put me off too...😳😅

Many friends of mine are thinking of retiring somewhere else where the cost of living is lower, safe and advance. Penang is a common choice for many, not to mention JB. So its quite normal for Singaporean to consider retiring elsewhere.

@@rolandyeo6311 Genuine Singaporeans are not likely to retire elsewhere as you said. Those who do are most likely nationalized citizens, who have no qualms of moving yet again to elsewhere coz their roots are not really in Singapore...

Well, many Singaporeans are thinking of retiring elsewhere too. 😂

​@@bell-xk5dd Thats ok, many ppl retiring in other countries still missed sg and still wanted to come back to sg.

The world is the oyster for those who can. Good education all the way to the university, big house, car(s), and weather all play a part to stir the hearts of those who are pining for greener pastures.

Lots of Singaporeans take a few years abroad and come back home in the end. Those who don’t return will always have a tie to this place. So it’s fine really, sons and daughters of Singapore should be allowed to see the world. And those who don’t leave should be allowed to experience a little bit of the world and work alongside international colleagues.

Population must grow, either organically or through import. People need spacious homes at least, never be like HK, flats smaller than a car parking lot.

Er nope. Not the many people I know age 10-50

That’s broken engrish.

thats mean