Singapore!

try walking slowly and aimlessly, sometimes standing in place

haha

i will be doing that, i think.

See if you can find a beer in a restaurant or bar for under $10.

http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?248-Singapore

"Money is the world's greatest aphrodisiac"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard_Towers

The only country music bar in Singapore 'Country Jamboree' is located on the 2nd floor.

if you go to singapore and don't go to country jamboree, you might as well stay in union.

I'm headed to Singapore in a month - we have some friends there on a fullbright and I'll have just finished grad school so it seems like a nice time to go. They (and another friend who has traveled there a lot for business) say it's kind of boring but we're also going to go to Phuket and Bangkok for a couple days - these friends have lived in Bangkok on two separate occasions and will be our guides which will be kind of nice.

Anything worth checking out other than eating a lot? Art stuff, cheap foods, people watching, etc? I've never been anywhere outside the US except Italy so I'm super stoked but also kind of terrified.

i might be moving to singapore. anybody lived there before?

Is someone paying for you to do that? The rental market (which almost entirely targets ex-pats) is deeply awful right now, theoretically because of companies moving everyone from Hong Kong but also because there's nothing stopping people from raising rents by 75%.

Yes, my wife’s job, but I’ll have to leave my job to go. Tell me good places to live

Expats tend to cluster around Holland Village and Bukit Timah; they're livable, though it feels very much like a suburb, and a little boring, though maybe that's just how Singapore is. If you can live way out east, I like Joo Chiat and Kantong - they feel a bit more neighborhood-y.

thanks for the info!