Not true. You can own a wide assortment of small dogs up to certain weights/sizes.3. You can't live in an HDB and own a dog: Unless it is an official guide-dog.
Ohhhh.... that explains it. I knew someone who lived in an HDB with a cat. IIRC it was all a bit hush hush, and the cat was never allowed out. From that I inferred dogs were not allowed either (added to with the haram element), esp considering I have seen many cats around HDB estates, incl ones with snipped ears and collars/tags, but never a dog.sundaymorningstaple wrote:You cannot own cats. That's why so many wild in the HDB estates.
JR8 wrote:You'll get a volume of feedback directly proportional to the effort you demonstrate you have made yourself in answering these questions. That's just IME, but something for you to keep in mind. But I'll suggest a few starting points, and some tips.
1. http://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/comparison.jsp
2. I'm unaware of such a figure being mentioned before, and if such a thing existed I'm not sure what value it might have. Better to identify a couple of suitable 'target' neighbourhoods via the 'Where should I/We live?' FAQ in the Moving/Relo section of this forum. Then use Numbeo to help fill out the rest of your total budget.
3. You can't live in an HDB and own a dog: Unless it is an official guide-dog.
4. http://www.ica.gov.sg
5. Sniping at each other. [/jk]. Locals spend it discussing and consuming food. Expats spend it drinking so that they can forget what made them move to SG [/jk2]. In reality (just IME) locals tend more towards eating and shopping, and expats towards an ongoing pursuit of trying to understand what SG *actually* is. It being so multi-cultural and fast changing, makes the latter a task seemingly without end.
6. Child, yes, 100%. Dogs? Far less, since to Muslims they are haram ['unclean'], and to many other locals they are a luxury as they can be expensive to keep. So I think it fair to say most SGns are unfamiliar with dogs, and hence not at ease around then. Same reason, for example, most taxi drivers (of any race) won't take them. Same reason many landlords (even condo) wouldn't want a tenant with a dog, or might ask for an additional deposit against potential caused by it.
Most cafe's tolerate well behaved dogs that are kept on short leashed tied to your chair, that's IF you sit outdoors. IME most would not want you to bring them indoors. Some places are perfectly happy with dogs and bill themselves as such. I have a dog-owning friend and have been with her to places where the staff have specifically provided a bowl of water for her dog. Restaurants are probably similar but rarer, since food and dogs don't go together well in most cultures.
Bars and dogs, perhaps rarer still, since dogs and consuming alcohol don't naturally go together. Bars are rare enough, and mostly downtown, and few people who venture downtown go to the trouble of taking their dog with them.
For dog-friendly parks etc, refer back to 2 above.
sundaymorningstaple wrote:Not true. You can own a wide assortment of small dogs up to certain weights/sizes.3. You can't live in an HDB and own a dog: Unless it is an official guide-dog.
http://www.hdb.gov.sg/fi10/fi10326p.nsf ... enDocument
sundaymorningstaple wrote:Not a problem, but can gets fined if one is not responsible with their dogs, e.g., keeping them leashed unless in a dog park (a couple here on the island) and the owners/walkers must pick up their droppings and can be fined for unleashed animals and fined for littering (dog crap) if they do not clean up behind their dogs.
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