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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:23:01 JST Adrianna Tan

   I was telling an American friend who just went to Japan that the Singaporean version of ‘omg you don’t have a passport and you don’t travel’ is ‘omg you only travel to Japan’ (because it is safe and easy and it points to someone who only does what everybody else does and only does safe and easy things)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:25:06 JST Adrianna Tan

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     You can fly from Singapore to many cities in Japan for less than the cost of a San Francisco to Seattle flight

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:28:47 JST Adrianna Tan

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     That’s what I miss most about living there: easy access to the world

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:30:36 JST Adrianna Tan

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     There are low cost flights to.. Vienna now?!?

     https://milelion.com/2025/01/16/scoot-launching-non-stop-flights-to-vienna-from-june-2025/

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:34:32 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Phil Dennis-Jordan

     @pmdj scoot is no Singapore airlines, but much nicer than Ryanair haha

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     Phil Dennis-Jordan (pmdj@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:34:33 JST Phil Dennis-Jordan

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     @skinnylatte That could possibly end up being useful knowledge, thanks! (from the other direction 😅)

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:38:46 JST Adrianna Tan

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     Yes I know that is a very first world privilege thing to say! It is true tho! I think all of the street food sellers I know in Singapore have also gone to Japan. Multiple times!

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:42:56 JST Adrianna Tan

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     That’s >20% of all *citizens*

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:45:32 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Alan

     @alansuspect still owned by Singapore airlines. Still fly to Australia

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     Alan (alansuspect@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:45:33 JST Alan

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     @skinnylatte scoot is owned by Singapore Airlines (or was a while back), they flew from Australia to Singapore quite a bit.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:46:00 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Alan

     @alansuspect it’s fine. They fly Singapore airlines’ older planes but they are kitted out differently. Service is not as overwhelming (which I prefer)

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     Alan (alansuspect@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 16:46:01 JST Alan

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     @skinnylatte I haven't flown them but I do enjoy Singapore airlines, it's been a while though.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 17:06:09 JST Adrianna Tan

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     I really get whiplash between (1) my home country that is so small everybody feels compelled to leave and is mostly able to (2) where I live now, in the heart of an empire where people rarely leave nor are they able to

     The first time someone asked me for advice on ‘how to travel internationally’ I was so confused. I had never considered that travel could be *not* international. I used to get 2 different counties’ cellphone signal if I stood in a certain way at a window.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 17:10:04 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • SeaFury 🦜🍃

     @SeaFury I didn’t that regularly. Like I would bring my passport to school so I can go to Malaysia for lunch. At 14 years old :)

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     SeaFury 🦜🍃 (seafury@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 17:10:05 JST SeaFury 🦜🍃

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     @skinnylatte When I was in Singapore, I went to Malaysia for lunch 🤣

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     Cassander (drsbaitso@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 17:21:55 JST Cassander

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     @skinnylatte Yup, the US contrast: I jokingly describe myself as living in "Almost-Canada-Land". I am 100 miles from the nearest crossing.

     I'm going to drive to visit some family in a few weeks. I will cover ~1500 miles (~2400km) over three days. I will not cross any borders. That's only one way.

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 17:21:55 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • Cassander

     @drsbaitso while flying to New York from San Francisco I realized that flying the same amount of time from Singapore would get me almost to Dubai and therefore halfway to Europe

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 17:35:39 JST Adrianna Tan

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     When I flew from SF to NYC, it reminded me that a flight of a similar amount of time out of Singapore would get me almost to Dubai. Which is halfway to Europe. So sometimes when people say ‘America is X’ I guess I now get a sense of scale that I didn’t really perceive before

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     Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 18:39:27 JST Adrianna Tan

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     • David P

     @pewnack 10M to Bali!

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     David P (pewnack@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 18:39:28 JST David P

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     @skinnylatte

     Australia, like the US is a large continent. But unlike the US most of it is very sparsely inhabited.

     And yeah, the distances are vast. A flight from Sydney on the east coast to Perth on the west coast (which I believe is actually closer to Singapore than to our capital Canberra) is roughly the same as a flight from Moscow to London.

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     David P (pewnack@aus.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Dec-2025 18:39:28 JST David P

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     @skinnylatte

     Well, sparsely inhabited except for the coastal cities.

     In terms of international travel. Apparently in 2024 Australians took over 11 million overseas trips. For a country with a population of 25 million, that's quite a lot.

     I suspect it might be a wealthy subset.

     https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-09-16/travel-tourism-australia-holiday-cost-of-living/104337072