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    S'poreans unhappy with personal savings in last 6 months: study

    Singaporeans have rated themselves to be unhappy with their personal savings in the last six months, according to a study titled "The Happiness Report".

    The study conducted by global communications firm, Grey Group, found that almost one in two respondents were unhappy about the fact that they had insufficient personal savings, reported Channel NewsAsia.

    40.5 per cent of the 200 Singaporeans surveyed said they were unhappy with their personal expenditure while 27 per cent of the respondents were unhappy with their confidence in the economy.

    Two other areas in which people cited unhappiness were job satisfaction (23 per cent) and work-life balance (21 per cent).

    The study, conducted in June this year with Singaporeans aged 18 to over 60, also revealed the top five things Singaporeans were most happy about.

    78 per cent of respondents ranked Singapore as the best place to stay in the world while 74 per cent ranked close family ties as one of their prime sources of happiness.

    The next three things were spirituality, social support networks and personal time.

    People aged 45 to 49 years old were the happiest people with an overall net happiness score of 11.4 per cent. Young adults between 18 and 29 years old had a score of 6.8 on the same scale.

    At work, men were also found to be happier than women, with 46.08 per cent of men happy with their jobs, compared to 37.75 per cent for women.

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    • Kok Wee  •  4 months ago
      i'm unhappy that the president gets 4m a year
    • cooler  •  4 months ago
      If family have old parent to take care and young children to raise, every month the bank is near zero plus very everything is on the raise make the situation worse!!!
    • Sweetvoice  •  4 months ago
      A totally useless and baseless report.
    • J-Le  •  4 months ago
      Worse, when the inflation is 3% our savings is only 0.25%- this is ridiculous! Frankly, Banks in Singapore should not be so corrupted and devious.
    • Cybertrouble  •  4 months ago
      we are paying them so much to make them look so good to the other world....
      end up we suffer and live like shit!!!!! i cant even afford a house.... i have alot in CPF... guess we will never have a chance to even touch it....
      evil strike in the dark.... robber steal in the nite.... we have been rob in the board day light..... !
    • thethethe  •  4 months ago
      If I were to ask all the PAP, their reply will be 1000% happy with their personal savings in every months.
    • Heng  •  4 months ago
      We just want a roof and enough money for daily expenses... is it so tough?? But our earning cant even support both. Yet gov lose $120 billion on rubbish investment.

      If the Gov give the $120billion loses to Singaporean : $120billion/Purely Singapore 3mil = Free housing+ free transport + free daily expenses till we die.

      WE WANT OUR MONEY BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • J-Le  •  4 months ago
      Why other Developed Countries can give 8% interest rate for savings account during good economy times but not Singapore??
    • bbsm  •  4 months ago
      y we sporeans need to serve ns to protect our country n yet our gov dun protect us .
    • Dio  •  4 months ago
      Yes I'm unhappy with my CPF SAVINGS!! I don't know when I can see my money !!Or will I ever got the chance to even hold it???
    • AZ  •  4 months ago
      I can't believe that 74% of people surveyed think Singapore is the best place in the world to live.....and yet still feel unhappy over major things. What a paradox!

      First - have you lived anywhere else? To make such a bold, naive statement?
      Speaking personally as someone who lived in a couple of countries before.....you certainly don't know what you are missing about in the world. And there is something deeply missing or wrong about Singapore society by large. Singaporeans don't know how to live. The Italians have a saying...La Dolce Vita. Which means the sweet life.

      Singaporeans complain and grouse a lot because they do not have the 'sweet life' nor do they take pleasure in life and enjoy life's wonderful journey. Instead work - means career and productivity. Life is about accepting challenges and change and coping. Responsibilities are everything and defines who you are. Pleasure is eating and shopping. If you live like this, you won't really be living or be alive.....and you end up dead or very ill-health very soon.
    • PAP my foot  •  4 months ago
      "S'poreans least happy with personal savings in last six months"
      - It means Singaporean aren't happy with personal savings after the election

      PAP my foot!!!
    • DRAGON  •  4 months ago
      AIYA! all these survey are wrong lah. SINGAPORE MOST UNHAPPINESS IS WITH THE PAP!
    • chia  •  4 months ago
      @cooler 3 hours ago
      If family have old parent to take care and young children to raise, every month the bank is near zero plus very everything is on the raise make the situation worse!!!

      when money in bank not enough, bank deduct 2 dollars from your account until none left then they sent you a letter to top up. banks are biggest ah loong
    • Tin Pui Lang  •  4 months ago
      again another lying survey... Singaporeans most unhappy are: no. 1 foreigners immigrating to Singapore, no. 2 singapore government treated foreigners better than it own citizen, no. 3 PRs are allowed to buy public housing. no. 4 older workers are discrimated by public and private companies. no. 5 foreigners are given scholarships to study in NUS and NTU whereas it is so difficult for singaporeans to get scholarships from government. no. 6. the jam in MRT and public buses are terrible. no. 7 government is going to build more public houses, meaning more immigrants. no. 8. PAP members and LHL are still using lips servicing, preaching how much they love the country and singaporeans but always come with faking survey. no. 9, if you expenses couldn't cover what you earned, what saving are you talking about? no. 10, why is LKY still breathing and talking?
    • TRUST WHO THAN.  •  4 months ago
      @PHONY Tan...."There is one thing I am MOST UNHAPPY about !
      The President, PM, DPM and ministers paid themselves SKY-HIGH and OBSCENELY HIGH salaries and yet pretend that they did nothing wrong whatsoever.
      They have the HIGHEST SALARY IN THE WORLD ! ! !
      Is there OK or morally right ? !
      What justifications are there for such HIGH salaries ?
      It is plain self-serving and a form of corruption and tyranny !
      Don' they feel ashamed of themselves ?
      How do they sleep at night ?
      Boy .... they must have very THICK skin and a STONE COLD conscious ! ! !
      Can you imagine it ? The HIGHEST salary in the WORLD not just SG or SEA !"
      AS A WISE MAN SAY----IF THEY ARE MORALLY WRONG, NO AMOUNT OF MONEY CAN PREVENT THEM FROM CORRUPTIONs AND SOCIAL ILLNESS!!!!!!
    • Mona Liza  •  4 months ago
      Dont mind me saying - Singapore is an Expensive Country!! How do people wanna be Happy if we Keep On workinG hard bUt no TIme For Family, Friends?? How to have Good Savings if we Pay pay pay and get little Money?? Hmmmm...
    • Aftermath  •  4 months ago
      Personal saving will never catch up with price increase and inflation.
      Upon hospitalisation, one may expect personal saving to be drained.......sad is it?
    • Airy  •  4 months ago
      I'm unhappy with this govt who dishes us with BS... Useless bunch of craps...
    • chia  •  4 months ago
      yahoo do you know? feng shui master bluff you 8 to 10 years, pap govt bluff you 50 years. now most citizens are wiser la