Singapore can be a very uncomfortable place to live if you're Singaporean, poor and unskilled, which is also precisely the combination that makes it virtually impossible to emigrate.
Every now and then the gov't media accidentally lets the veil slip, as in a story about a retired old lady who worked as a hawker centre table cleaner with wages of around S$190 per month (around US$100, this in a country with higher cost of living than the US) and slept in a pile of cardboard boxes on a public housing block's "void deck" (outdoor forecourt). This wasn't the story, mind you, since this is what happens to you if you have no retirement funds or family to support you in Singapore; the story was that somebody had stolen her S$90 of savings.
Every now and then the gov't media accidentally lets the veil slip, as in a story about a retired old lady who worked as a hawker centre table cleaner with wages of around S$190 per month (around US$100, this in a country with higher cost of living than the US) and slept in a pile of cardboard boxes on a public housing block's "void deck" (outdoor forecourt). This wasn't the story, mind you, since this is what happens to you if you have no retirement funds or family to support you in Singapore; the story was that somebody had stolen her S$90 of savings.