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Old Mar 26, 2016 | 4:45 am
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Originally Posted by shuigao
Frankly, this is equal parts due to the army of foreigners SG hires to wash corridors and clean up all the trash that the locals throw everywhere.

Just today I was waiting for my wife at an open area. Saw a bench and approached it to sit down, but decided not to thanks to literally hundreds of cigarette butts strewn all over the ground.
I second this statement. During the last few elections one of the big gripes, other than housing being too expensive for locals, was the fact there were too many foreigners taking jobs from Singaporeans.
Well --- who build the housing, the trains, the roads, the airport? Invariably foreigners. who staff hawker centres, does office/house maintenance, are maids? again ... invariably foreigners.

It makes me kinda frustrated when visitors say Singaporeans keep their country clean --- nope, no they don't. It's the foreigners. It's the Singaporeans who through the rubbish the first place!
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