I would hardly call East Coast places like Bayshore and Mandarin Gardens the equivalent of Mayfair. What Thermal Image does not understand and more likely does not want to is that there is no point in being an Expat unless one is better off than staying in ones home country.There has to be an incentive to stay or to join in the first place which is no longer there in my opinion.
Expats are only under short term contracts that may or may not be renewed and have no employments rights.
It has come to a pretty poor state of things if Pilots in SIA can only afford to live in HDB's. Clearly Thermal Image is one of those who hates Pilots like LKY. I am glad that I am now out of all this having retired recently. I certainly would not have considered joining SQ under the present T & C's, what with the Exchange Rate and Housing costs.