Being an expat in a city where basically everything is handed to you on a golden platter, the move away can present itself as quite the challenge for most people. People who have not lived this kind of life don't understand the extent to which our life is quite frankly perfection. In Singapore my life consisted of taking the world renowned IB program in the city central with the closest shop being something along the lines of Dior, being asked to model by people on the streets and basically being treated as a VIP everywhere I went. I had the opportunity to eat food from all over the world in luxurious restaurants, shop in the most high end shops on the planet and live in the most expensive city in the world since 2014. At some point, whether you want to admit it to yourself or not, you start taking it all as a given and you don't recognize how good you have it. Even if you do appreciate the opportunities you are given, you can't think of going back to an alternative way of life where everything isn't as easy or doesn't work as perfectly as it does in Singapore. 

In the last month that I came back to Singapore I started to think about all this, having come back from my summer holiday in Finland. I started to notice how smoothly life rolled and somehow everything was just better in Singapore: it made me never want to leave! Naturally it isn't perfect and there are things that start to get on your nerves after a while (the bluntness of taxi drivers for example). Having said that, Singapore has and always will hold a certain charm to me that no other place can ever beat. Therefore as relief for the immense home sickness that I've been feeling towards my favourite little island, and as a demonstration of my gratitude of the life I had there I decided to compile a list of the characteristics that I miss the most.