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Every service and product in one place, organised by what you’re actually trying to do. Templates and guides download the moment you pay; written plans and advisory are made for your situation. Pay securely by card — and questions before buying are welcome by email, answered within 24 hours.

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Questions before buying? contactstgbyalocal@gmail.com — Answered within 24 hours, usually much sooner — a real local, not a ticketing system.

How this shop is built: four doors, by what you are actually trying to do. Inside each, the instant downloads come first — templates and guides from SGD 39 that arrive the moment you pay and work without me — then the personal services, where a local applies judgement to your specific situation and writes it up for you. Every instant product is credited in full against a personal service within 60 days, so starting small is never a dead end. If a free guide would serve you better, Email me and I’ll say so.

I'm visiting Singapore

Plan your own days, or hand the dates over. Everything at the top downloads instantly; the written plans below are made for your specific trip.

The Singapore Trip Planner Kit

SGD 39

Plan your own days the way a local would: a daily template built around the 9–12–4–5 heat rhythm with a rain-plan column, the timing rules that dodge queues, an eat-by-district sheet, and the blue-hour photography window.

Instant download on payment — printable PDF, yours to keep.

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Printable tick-card — stall level

The Hawker Hit List

SGD 39

Stall-level, not centre-level — that is the whole point. The free guides on this site name centres and explain how hawker culture works. This card names the specific stalls I send friends to, with the details that decide whether you eat well or queue for forty minutes and regret it: which day each closes, roughly when it sells out, and what to order when the famous dish is gone. Twenty-two dishes across the canon and the ones visitors miss, the centres ranked by what you want from the trip, and the ordering words that make it easier. Printed to carry and tick off as you go.

Stall names aren’t published on the site for two reasons: the detail goes stale fast, and a public list swamps small stalls in a way that ruins them for the regulars. This card is re-checked each edition instead.

Instant download on payment — printable PDF, yours to keep.

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Best value — eight guides in one

The Singapore Visitor Playbook

SGD 189

The complete visitor system in one download: The Hawker Guide (how centres work, what to order, the queue rule that never lies), Chinatown Local Map, Kampong Glam & Little India, Rainy Day Singapore (the wet-weather plan that saves an afternoon), Your First 72 Hours, and The Changi Layover Playbook — plus the itinerary audit checklist, so you can red-pen your own plan before you travel. Everything one visitor needs, written by a Singaporean born and raised here, with nobody paying to appear in it.

Instant download on payment — one link, all eight guides, updated editions included. Credited in full against any advisory service within 60 days.

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The Changi Layover Plan

SGD 350

The Brief, tailored to your interests, plus a wet-weather plan B and email access during the layover itself. Includes the honest leave-or-stay verdict for your exact landing and departure times — sometimes the answer is that Changi itself is the better use of your hours, and you will be told so. Now covers the full transit day end to end: the leave-or-stay verdict, a timed route, food stops matched to your window, and the return buffer that stops layover trips becoming missed flights.

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The Local Brief

SGD 350

A personalised written Singapore plan for your trip, delivered within 48 hours. Yours to follow on the ground. See a real sample → Now includes the neighbourhood-and-hotel recommendation that used to be sold separately: your area, three named properties, and the honest reason for each.

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Self-Guided VIP Experience

SGD 1,200

Everything bespoke: itinerary, custom neighbourhood audio guide, reservations handled, a local on call for the whole trip. Includes two full revisions and me reachable throughout trip week. And if something goes genuinely wrong during your covered week — lost passport, hospital, scam — message me and helping you navigate it is part of the service.

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I'm moving to Singapore

The paperwork side first — checklists and models you fill in yourself — then the advisory for the decisions that carry five-figure consequences.

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The Singapore Landing Checklist

SGD 39

Your first 30 days, sequenced by a local: what to do before you fly, in week one, and before month one closes — with the lease clauses that decide your deposit and the five things people miss. Printable, tickable, with space for your own additions. This is the printable sequence on its own — if you want the trackers and the housing scorer too, the Relocation Guide below contains this checklist plus all of it.

Instant download on payment — printable PDF, yours to keep.

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The Tenancy Red-Flag Checklist

SGD 39

Read your Singapore lease like a local before you sign. Eleven clauses marked Standard / Push back / Missing, the handover-day photo protocol that protects your deposit, and six questions worth asking before you commit. Local-practice guidance, not legal advice.

Instant download on payment — printable PDF, yours to keep.

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The Expat First-Year Calendar

SGD 39

The deadlines nobody tells you about: tax filing, pass renewal windows, the lease-renewal notice date, licence conversion, school terms and the two days a year Singapore genuinely closes — month by month, with space for your own dated obligations.

Instant download on payment — printable PDF, yours to keep.

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SG Cost-of-Living Budget Model

SGD 49

A working spreadsheet (Excel / Google Sheets) that turns “can we afford Singapore?” into your numbers: three lifestyle scenarios, car/school/helper toggles, one-time setup costs and the first-year all-in figure. Reference table included. Try the free 60-second version first: the quick calculator. Built on the same quarterly model as our published Arrival Cost Index — assumptions exposed and editable, sourced from real client commitments and provider rates, never vendor-supplied figures.

Instant — your download link is on the Stripe receipt.

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Singapore Relocation Guide

SGD 79

Your whole move in one system: the 30-day sequenced timeline with official links, documents checklist, housing shortlist scored on the clauses that matter, services tracker, school waitlists and the Renting Playbook. It includes the Landing Checklist and adds the parts a checklist cannot carry: the scored housing shortlist, the services tracker, and the Renting Playbook.

Instant — your download link is on the Stripe receipt.

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Relocation Advisory

SGD 690

Two 30-minute sessions plus a written summary, covering whichever of these matter to you: neighbourhoods and commute, schools and waitlists, healthcare and insurance, banking, and what a lease actually means here. Split deliberately: the first session before you commit to anything, the second once viewings, school replies or the contract have raised the questions you couldn’t have known to ask.

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Book session one now and session two when you’re ready — most families take the second after they’ve viewed properties or heard back from schools, when the real questions arrive.

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My parents are in Singapore

For families organising care or a visit from overseas. Documents you can fill in and share today, and remote advisory when the decisions get harder.

Remote — before and after the consultation

Appointment Prep & Debrief

SGD 380

The moment families abroad feel most useless is the twenty minutes their parent spends with a specialist. Before: you get a written brief for whoever is going — the questions to ask for this specific condition, what to bring, what the doctor will assume you already know, and the two things older patients reliably under-report. After: you send me the notes, however rough, and I return a clean written record — what was said in plain words, what it means, what happens next, who books it and by when — in a form you can forward to siblings in three time zones.

Entirely remote and bilingual English–Chinese. Brief within 48 hours of booking; written record within 48 hours of receiving your notes. This is documentation and judgement, not medical advice — the diagnosis is your doctor’s.

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English and 中文 included

Golden Age Explorers

SGD 59

The field guide for older travellers and the adult children hosting them: the one-anchor-a-day pace rule, the attractions that are genuinely step-free and where the benches are, food that suits older palates (and how to ask for less salt), the dignity layer — wheelchair loans, toilet-mapped routes, a driver arrangement that changes the whole trip — and what to do if something goes wrong. Includes the full Chinese edition (《乐龄畅游新加坡》) so the parents can read it themselves.

Instant download on payment — both language editions, printable. Credited in full against the Parents’ First Visit Plan within 60 days.

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The Family Handover Pack

SGD 59

Six sheets for families caring for a parent in Singapore from overseas: one-page medical summary, medication schedule, emergency contact card (995 printed on it), visit-report template, the six questions to ask any doctor, and a care decision log. Fill once, share with everyone who might need it.

Instant download on payment — printable PDF, yours to keep.

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Parents' First Visit Plan

SGD 380

For your parents' first Singapore visit: an itinerary built to their pace — accessible routes, rest rhythm, food they'll actually enjoy, medical-info prep — plus email support while they're here.

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I'm moving people here

For HR and mobility teams, executive assistants, relocation firms, serviced residences and schools. Full detail on the For Business page.

Corporate Advisory

From SGD 1,900

Cultural briefings for arriving executives, per-assignee relocation orientation, new-hire welcome support, team offsites and volume digital licensing — scoped to what your team actually needs, on a call. Volume licensing of our relocation templates — for assignee teams, serviced residences, international-school parent packs, and client welcome gifts from relocation-adjacent firms (mortgage, tax, legal, moving) — is scoped the same way. Full detail for organisations: the For Business page.

Everything starts with a conversation — payment follows the call, before any work begins.

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