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Re: Concerns about Singapore

2016-04-10 00:27:36

I would have thought the cost of transportation would likely more than offset 
the savings in terms of hotels. Not sure how practical it would be to use cheap 
public transportation to make that trip every day to attend a meeting .

Although Singapore may be called a city state like Hong Kong there is quite a 
bit more to it than just the city and the causeway to Malaysia is the other 
side of the island from the Metropolitan area. 

In the case of HK the MTR does go all the way to the border and then the 
Schenzhen subway is accessible from the other side, however I wouldn't think it 
would be very practical to try to commute every day between HK and Schenzhen 
either and I expect a similar or worse situation exists between Singapore and 
Malaysia.

This is coming from someone who commuted every day to Yokohama from downtown 
Tokyo which was actually quite cheap (about $5 US each way) although it took 
about an hour each way.

Andrew

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  Original Message  
From: Michael Richardson
Sent: Friday, April 8, 2016 20:48
To: Andrew Allen
Cc: Dave Crocker; Ole Jacobsen; ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org Discussion
Subject: Re: Concerns about Singapore


Andrew Allen <aallen(_at_)blackberry(_dot_)com> wrote:
According to the Web link posted earlier Malaysia has similar laws.

Yes, I wasn't suggesting it because of laws, but rather because I thought it
might have a larger variety of price ranges in hotels.

--
Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF(_at_)sandelman(_dot_)ca>, Sandelman Software Works
-= IPv6 IoT consulting =-




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