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Coke in Singapore is a different recipe with less sugar.

Interesting! According to [1] it's labelled as "less sugar" though, so it's not as if the original/standard Coke is different. There seems to be some widespread thinking that Singapore has issues with sugar consumption so I guess this is Coke's response (or perhaps they were forced by authorities).

[1]: https://www.coca-cola.com/sg/en/brands/coca-cola


TIL

I actually had beer in mind for Singapore which I find somehow always tastes a bit off here...


Rent/mortgage would be dirt cheap if you didn't have to live near a job.


It's never been easier to live far from your job, yet rent/mortgage prices are higher than ever.


Sure but price to income has never been lower if you're willing to move and work remotely (or retire on investment income) somewhere cheaper.

If you want to live in the best real estate in the world and expect to continue doing so when you have no job, that's not going to happen. If you're willing to adapt and spread out you can live better and freer than ever in a hypothetical world where AI has taken most jobs.


Boy I wish I lived in your reality.


No, labor mobility means YOU can take a better job across town that pays 20% more without causing your rent to triple.


"Newcomers" to the rental market include every person who already lives in that city and hasn't moved out of their parents' house yet. Why should they be penalized even more for not being born sooner?


If they print enough money your other assets will go up (maybe enough to buy a house that has stayed flat in nominal terms)

This is basically the situation with housing in Canada actually, it's been down/flat in nominal terms since 2021 but if you owned US stocks during that time while waiting to buy then Canadian real estate is now much more affordable to you.


As a thought experiment would you not feel (much) poorer if houses suddenly cost >$5 million tomorrow and you didn't own one yet? Even if everything else cost the same? Even if everything else cost the same and your net worth went up $100k?


To add to that, an unemployed 28 year old living with his parents in the house that they own is a "homeowner" in most of these homeowner stats.


Someone needs to allocate capital, might as well be someone that has done it successfully in the past.


No.


They like walking around without a car AND without homeless addicts screaming at you for change.


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