Several years ago, United was going to but a 767 domicile in SIA. At that time I was a first officer on the 747.
I had a three day time change layover, where I couldn't connect to get back, so when I got into my hotel that night I called an Escort Service and asked them to send over an Escort......
The man on the phone said "Would you like a Chinese girl, Indian, Malay or English girl". I said Malay...He said "She'll be over within 45 minutes", but I said, no, let her show up tommorrow at 8:00 AM and she must speak reasonable good English and must have a valid Singaporean drivers license.
At 8:00 AM sharp, a 29 year old girl showed up speaking perfect English. Better than mine, acutally, I speak American. I told her that my company was going to put a pilot domicile here in SIA. I wanted her to show me a grade school, middle school, high school, where I would live as an Expat and where I would live if I wanted to be part of the Singaporean Community and where I would never want to live at all.
We rented a car, and off we went. My conclusions were that this would be a place where my children would be safe and schooled well, learn at least one if not two additional languages, and my wife and I might be reasonable comfortable.
Uniteds grand plans fell through, but I would have gone......