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Is the "GRASS Always GREENER" on the other side ?

Published Tuesday, April 18, 2006 by SaiRay | E-mail this post

Yeap, thats the question running through my mind for the last few days when I got wind of a friend iminent departure to Ireland for 2 yrs. He had a wife and 2 kids, with the younger one being 4 mths old. Now let me summarise here how many friends that I have are currently overseas or are going to soon.

1. Raymond Lian + wife in Vancouver, Canada

2. Dr. VL Loh in London, UK

3. My bro with wife and kid in London, UK

4. Kok Sang + wife + 3yr old son going to Ireland soon.

5. Dr.BG Chua in Brisbane, Australia.

6. My wife good friend with 2 kids in New Jersey, USA.

7. My wife ex-singapore colleaque with family in Chengdu, China.

8. CK Chan in Thailand soon.

9. Dr.AL Tan in Wellington, NZ.

10. PY Liew (Singapore) with bf in UK.

11. CP Ship + husband + baby in Sinagapore.

12. MK Liew (Grace) + husband in Florida, USA.

These are friends I have direct contact with and not including those indirect one like friends friend, family friends, acquintance and etc etc. Can you imagine what is the correct no./ official no. for the number of people going overseas and never come back. This is what I called brain drain. No wonder !!! Now we know just why the chinesse population figure are dropping like fly.........25% of the whole population of 28million. This drop is so drastic once that a chinese association had called for the policy of encouraging chinese to have more kids with incentive and kickbacks. A consolation and meagre incentive if you ask me. It wasn't supported by the Gov and was a one way street thing.

Just look at it. Doesn't it compel you to shipout and move out of this country ? Let me give you some of the thoughts why

1. The cost of living is lower oversea (dollar earn to purchasing power)

2. Opportunity (education, work and rights)

3. Quality of life

4. Higher and stable currency (with the dollar/pound earn you can always choose to move anywhere u want)

5. Governing system

Think ABOUT IT !! Think Aloud !!