Singapore is also an authoritarian concrete jungle, among one of the most expensive cities in the whole world.
Let's try not ruin a beautiful country like Portugal by turning it into S'pore, aye?
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Not to disagree about the beauty in Portugal, but I visited Singapore as a young child, and it's so much nicer now because of the greenery they're adding within the city.
Also, at Singapore population density (I have different numbers from the other commenter), even if the entire EU moved there it would still be 42% untouched (and the rest of the EU would be empty).
i don't understand this comment.
by any measure (for example wealth, health, social security, safety, housing, jobs) Singapore is outranking most of Europe, including Portugal.
I'll take literally any country in Europe, the Balkans (where I'm from, a tiny poor shithole for lack of a better word) included over S'pore any day of the week.
I lived there for a while, and I could go the rest of my life without ever even thinking of stepping foot into that depressing hole of a country again. These cute stats people like to throw around are nice and all in theory, but actually living there is a whole other story.
Maybe things have changed in the last 7 years since I last lived there, but I very much doubt it.
Things have only gotten worse. I left the island after more than 6 years there, moved to EU and couldn’t be happier. The stats vs the real life statement totally makes sense.