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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Probably not.

What about Singapore?  We're living there now for work, and while English is the official language, Mandarin is widely spoke as well, and Chinese culture and traditions are a part of the thread of life here.  And I think it would be a low-risk, safe experience, compared to the uncertainty of relations with China and conditions for expats there right now.

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I totally agree with you but he’s not particularly interested in Singapore. Says the partner program there isn’t as appealing and also I think he just thinks of Singapore as ‘boring’. He’s looking at it from a 19 year old perspective unfortunately.

[b]How do you like living there? [/b][/quote]

I love it.  I also think I would have loved to have spent time here as a university student.  There are so many things to do for university kids in the city.

Singapore is a clean, safe, modern place to live, but it definitely has its own flavor.  Singapore is quite multicultural as well: this isn't something most people think about when they imagine it, I think.

I also love how it is so easy to just zip off for a three-day weekend mini break in places like Japan, Australia, South Korea, etc, and you can drive across the causeway into Malaysia for shopping, exploring somewhere different but close, etc.

Maybe you could bring your child here to visit for a few days, to see if he changes his mind?  I would be happy for my child to be in Singapore alone for university without us, and let him fly to China for a break or two when he has a school holiday, but would much prefer knowing he was safe here.  Again, he can absolutely use his Mandarin here every day, wherever he goes, if that is his focus.  But Singapore is also clean and safe, with drinkable water and a transparent, organized legal system.

We know a lot of expats who were previously posted in China, and the unanimous consensus among them is that China was a great place for expats a few years go, prior to Covid, but things have changed a lot and continue to move in a direction they don't like.  I would not want my child to live in China without us (or even with us) any time in the near future.

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