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So should I try to retire early, in Singapore? Or in Mexico?
They welcome everyone, Unless you have a criminal record or are hunted. As with all first world countries, people from other first world countries are accepted more easily than others. Also , since they encourage foreign investment, expatriates from the USA, Australia and UK have lived there for ages.
The chances of bad rulers taking place is slim, Although the same party has been in power, It is still a democracy and any alternative to a bad ruler or changes to the lifestyle of its citizens can be countered.
As for Population density, It is manageable with capable infrastructure and resources. Currently land reclamation is underway to the south of the island, and eco friendly buildings are being built on sentosa, Pulau Ubin and other islands. Singapore is like any big city in the US, without the pollution, crime and racism.
You've correctly pointed out the problem of land, but the small size allows for tighter border security and interdiction so it works both ways. Since it isn't in conflict with any country, no one is going to nuke it despite its high density population.
Yeah, I know all about accomodating rising population density with technology and stuff, I'm all for that, as I see "birth control" as direct pollution of the body, and welcoming the natural flow of human life to go on spreading and rising, as respecting nature and nature's creator God. I agree that it is managable or mitigable. I encourage "unchecked" human population growth, even in Singapore. A human "population explosion" at already high density, merely "overspills" people to other areas that can aborb them, densifies the people, or stacks them up higher into the sky.
If I already lived in Singapore, I would welcome "all the children that God gives," and be proud to add my contribution to the rising population density. And encourage everybody I can, to do the same. My point is, since I don't already live there, why would I want to take the chance of moving to, where the population density is already high? When I can stay at home where the population density is low, and raise it here instead?
The U.S. supposedly has all these democratic elections, but the greedy, evil corporations and rich elites buy the public airtime, and American morons elect so many evil, unqualified people to public office, so how do I know that Singapore won't be taken over by some ruthless dictator or something? And with so many people, only 3 million actually, living in such a confined space, they have better be into developing resources and energy, or costs may soar.
Just yesterday, somebody at work told me, that he likes that I am "pronatalist," as he agrees that there's some special value in having children. So I came back later and told him, "You do know that Al Gore is anti-natalist, don't you?" He had lent to me his "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's crock-umentary about "the sky is falling" alarmism "global warming." Me and somebody else, was trying to tell him, that we just don't buy Al Gore's claims that we need to do anything about this presumed, human-caused "global warming." I see it as well worth "crowding" or "warming" our environment, if ever it comes to that, in order for people to be able to go on having their precious darling babies.
Human population growth is beautiful, because it so expands the numbers of people who can then enjoy living.
The natural "blossoming" of the human race, increasingly filling the planet, helps keeps things interesting, children make the world so much less dreary-looking, and provides a very useful motivation towards innovation and technology growth. Besides, humans need a few "challenges" anyway, to keep us out of trouble and to keep from getting bored.
