“The ultimate Singapore culture shock : a $15k bike left unattended,” Nick Whitaker wrote on X, sharing a photo of a yellow Pinarello Dogma F12 leaning against a wall next to a coffee shop.The post has been viewed one million times on the platform since Monday, with users highlighting the obvious contrast in crime rates between Singapore and the United States .
Finance professional Lyall Taylor added, “When I first moved to Singapore, I was stunned to see a friend I was meeting at a busy inner-city restaurant for lunch, ‘reserve’ us a spare table by leaving his phone unattended on said table while we ordered at the interior counter outside of eyeshot. He had no concern whatsoever of it being swiped.
Another said, “Aspiring to this level of law and order should be like aspiring to clean drinking water: obvious and uncontroversial. Tolerating routine crime and disorder is like tolerating a poisoned water supply.”Former NFL player Jake Bequette wrote, “We could live like this in America, but our leaders decide every day they’d rather have crime.”
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