ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
$1:
Tropical places are fekin great.
Some are and usually when you visit them for a few weeks during their dry/winter season. Summer in the tropics is a bitch. Summer in south western Somalia was nicer than summer in southern Taiwan. If Cuba isn't for you, try Costa Rica...a hell of a lot less crime compared to Meh-ico and cheaper.
$1:
and btw that's just Singapore
And since you've been there, you can obviously disspell the myth of Singapore being super clean...it's only clean when compared to most other south east Asian cities which tend to be cess pits.
I can certainly attest to the cleanliness of Singapore as compared to let's say Bangkok, Hong Kong or Manilla, Pusan, Seoul and various others. But even in those cities there are areas of cleanliness and proper santitation that would rival any North American city, it's just their working class or slum areas that are kinda nasty and for some odd reason that's where we always seemed to end up.
Singapore was always great but you can only take so many British Expats twits sitting in Raffles, sipping gin and tonic while reminiscing about the glory days of the Empire which, is something most of them weren't old enough to remember.
It may not have been smart but it was always alot more fun when you went with the natives than doing the tours of the museums, library's and tourist attractions.
But IMO compared to most South American Cities, Singapore actually ranks as pretty clean.