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🗓️ 10 October 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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I get asked a lot about places where libertarians might move were things to go really sour in the United States. I myself plan to stick it out come what may, but it’s a good question all the same. One place sometimes cited in this respect is Singapore. Ivo Zlamal, a Supporting Listener of the show who has lived in Singapore for four and a half years, shares his impressions of that small country.
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0:45.9 | I'm talking to Evo's Lamal about the subject of Singapore. Once in a while I get people |
0:51.0 | asking me, where should I go if the, you know what hits the fan in the United States? |
0:56.3 | What's a good place where a libertarian might feel more or less at home? |
1:02.5 | And sometimes I hear Singapore raised as a possibility. |
1:06.4 | And Evo offered to come on and talk a little bit about Singapore as somebody who has lived there for a number of years, about four and a half years, but who wasn't born there. And so has a perspective of somebody taking a fresh look at the country, the very small country. Evo holds an undergraduate and a master's degree in economics from the University of Economics in Prague. |
1:29.8 | Evo, welcome to the show. |
1:31.3 | Thanks, Tom. |
1:32.0 | Pleasure to be here. |
1:33.0 | I have some curiosity among some listeners about some countries in the world and what they'd |
1:38.5 | be like to live in from the point of view of what you and I believe. |
1:42.8 | And you happen to live in Singapore, and you're a supporting listener of the show, and of what you and I believe. And you happen to live in Singapore and you're a |
1:46.2 | supporting listener of the show. And one time you wrote to me and said, you know, I'm not the |
1:50.9 | world's foremost expert on Singapore, but I'm somebody who's lived here for a while and I could |
1:54.8 | come comment on it. And I thought, why not? You know, I don't think we do quite enough of that |
1:58.4 | on the show. So let's start with your background before you moved to Singapore. |
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