For reasons which can only be explained if you know me well enough, I seldom have a meal with my secondary school classmates. It's just the way it is if you are a banana and your school is very Chinese helicopter. But when I do, I always learn something. Prior to the latest event, my classmates asked me why his dad could support a family on one income but he can't and whether it is feasible to emigrate to Australia. This time around, my classmate, who is a very senior Malaysian R&D engineer, said that Singapore is very tense and he'd rather live in JB and commute to Singapore than living here in Woodlands. Initially, I thought this was an economic argument because SGD goes a long way in JB. But it is not, the main draw is that he can be with his family in JB over weekends....