Higher costs

Yikes! A bad time to be moving back to Singapore from the US. In addition to inflation listed below, US dollar is down about 15% in the last year : (

Overall, Singaporeans paid 9.2 per cent more for food than they did a year ago because of more expensive items such as cooked food, rice, milk products, fresh poultry and vegetables.

Housing costs also went up by 13.4 per cent on year because of higher accommodation costs and electricity tariffs.