Friday Stereotype hanging out & Expensive living in SG

We had a good time at Quet's place last Friday. To sum it up:

Delicious and cheap food                    -> Chicken chop n carrots n corn
Branded ice cream                              -> Cookies and Cream
Copious amount of alcohol poured     -> almost halved the Lemoncillo
Gourmet tea self-brewed experiments -> first one with Green Plum & green tea
New free movie(s)                              -> Zootopia
Luxurious and invigorating massages  -> Deep tissue and 5-min one
Good sound system and HDTV          
Nice piano playing
and good chatting (scandalous topics at times)

So it was an improvement over the previous week of cleaning her house and getting it ready for house-warming. More fitting the stereo-type of how women should be hanging out together at a pad. The food alone was good enough to warrant a trip down and it was really a much cheaper way to hang out, yet has all the extravagant trimmings and cost a fraction of the price if doing these outside.
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On this point, I personally feel SG has really become an expensive place to live in. Partly due to my unemployment status, I feel it. Also in part, having gone across the causeway and seeing how much more the equivalent money could get, aka the purchasing power of the money. Having gone for recent trips to Bangkok and Taiwan, the purchasing power of the sgd is admirable. So much more stuff and value for the same buck compared to back in SG. And in part, the rising prices of things in sg. A meal out easily cost close to $20 and up to high $30s. At times higher. The serving portion is small, at times normal but not extravagant. You look at the small cut of meat on the plate and wondered where the price you paid went to? This is not the case in Bangkok and even Taiwan. The portions are bigger, generous amount of ingredients, fresh, and many a times, cost lower or equivalent to normal sg cafe prices, those in the $20 but not easily hitting $30. I feel it is good to earn SGD and spend them abroad. Can see now why so many SGporeans go travel in their holidays and leave. SG has become pricier than some EU countries. Better value to spend it there than here. I wonder if others feel the same way?