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Migrating from Malaysia: The Singapore I chose has changed
The city is more shiny now but has fewer pockets of quiet. The writer acknowledges that she has changed, too.
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Migration is a lasting trade-off: exchanging one set of certainties for another life altogether, and learning to take responsibility for that decision as circumstances evolve.
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About two weeks ago, a viral Reddit post about a Singaporean e-hailing driver who told a passenger he regretted his decision to migrate from Malaysia struck a chord with me.
According to the passenger’s now-deleted post, the driver said he believed he would now have to work for the rest of his life to cope with rising daily expenses and save enough for retirement.
