Husband just returned from a work trip to Singapore. It's alluringly civilized. Clean, friendly, gracious, polite. People leave their wallets on tables to save them at counter order restaurants. Homes are small but third spaces are plentiful and immaculate and filled with families. Everyone has an apartment but this is tolerable when the guy above you isn't blasting obscene music and the guy below you isn't smoking weed. Something to be said for enforced decent behavior.