Singapore?

"Charlie Choc" wrote in message
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On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 09:50:39 +0100, "riverman" wrote:

or is China just so populated that it will be endless
urban sprawl for hundreds of miles? I'm considering moving there for 3-5
years...am I nuts?

When I was in Singapore it wasn't in China. Sure you aren't thinking of
Shanghai, or are you just including all of Indochina in China?

Singapore has a Disney-like enforced niceness that you might find
oppressive,
but I was only there a short while and it didn't bother me. Cross over
into
Malaysia, though, and it's all rock and roll. g
--
Charlie...

Damn.....

"riverman" wrote in
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Any of you more well-travelled roffians been there, and what are the
flyfishing opportunities? I got a googlepost from 1999 where someone
said that there was no freshwater fishing near there, but some pretty
good swff, and excellent travel destinations (NZ, etc).

Its a possibility for next year, but I gotta weigh the
advantages/disadvatages. Like, I hear it gets hot there....

--riverman




IIRC, they have other uses for cane rods in Singapore

Scott

"riverman" wrote in
:

Any of you more well-travelled roffians been there, and what are the
flyfishing opportunities? I got a googlepost from 1999 where someone
said that there was no freshwater fishing near there, but some pretty
good swff, and excellent travel destinations (NZ, etc).

Its a possibility for next year, but I gotta weigh the
advantages/disadvatages. Like, I hear it gets hot there....

--riverman




IIRC, they have other uses for cane rods in Singapore

Scott

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:08:57 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:


Malaysia, though, and it's all rock and roll. g
--
Charlie...

Damn.....


But Malaysia is only what? An hour or less away? Singapore is a
relatively small area. It's sort of a country and sort of a city.
What in Europe used to be called a city state.

It's your kind of place, once you get out ot town (whole place looks
smaller than Manhatten Island, but you'd want to check that...).
Pirates, rebellions, and something like two or three other countries
in easy reach. Yes, last I read (I may be behind date on that),
piracy still happens in the oceans around Malaysia. So you can
(probably) sleep safely at home and work safely in the day, but face
all the messy dangers you want on a mere day trip. The city seems to
be an ethnic mix that's heavy on the Chinese and the Hindu, or was a
decade or two ago.

If you move there, go to the Raffles Hotel and have a Singapore Gin
Sling for me, okay? It's one of the places I have most wanted to see
since reading novels where the spies met in the bar, back when I was a
teenager. If it's still there. I may be behind the times on that,
too, and it may be gone by now. Shouldn't be. It should be a
national monument.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. And sometimes by the net.wolverine.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:08:57 +0100, "riverman"
wrote:


Malaysia, though, and it's all rock and roll. g
--
Charlie...

Damn.....


But Malaysia is only what? An hour or less away? Singapore is a
relatively small area. It's sort of a country and sort of a city.
What in Europe used to be called a city state.

It's your kind of place, once you get out ot town (whole place looks
smaller than Manhatten Island, but you'd want to check that...).
Pirates, rebellions, and something like two or three other countries
in easy reach. Yes, last I read (I may be behind date on that),
piracy still happens in the oceans around Malaysia. So you can
(probably) sleep safely at home and work safely in the day, but face
all the messy dangers you want on a mere day trip. The city seems to
be an ethnic mix that's heavy on the Chinese and the Hindu, or was a
decade or two ago.

If you move there, go to the Raffles Hotel and have a Singapore Gin
Sling for me, okay? It's one of the places I have most wanted to see
since reading novels where the spies met in the bar, back when I was a
teenager. If it's still there. I may be behind the times on that,
too, and it may be gone by now. Shouldn't be. It should be a
national monument.

Cyli
r.bc: vixen. Minnow goddess. Speaker to squirrels.
Often taunted by trout. And sometimes by the net.wolverine.

http://www.visi.com/~cyli