Barnsley, there are a few dorms around and none seem to have riot police on standbybgd wrote:Little India will be quieter
The local population will be happy, won't have to mix with the hired help.
If the facilities are good then perhaps the workers won't mind either, particularly if it's better than their current accommodation. I guess it really depends how they run these dorms, easy to get it wrong.
It starts that way, but then will progress to draconian measures. Mark my words. Give them an inch they will feel like they can then take the whole mile. Typical. That is why Subcontinentals like Singapore so much, they think alike, give an inch, take a mile.ecureilx wrote: from what I read the plan is to 'encourage' the workers to reduces outings and not to force it like some middle east countries.
Heck, Wd40 will tell you that.
Article in the bird cage liner... try this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=singapore%27s+biggest+dormitoryzzm9980 wrote:Curious, where are the 'megadorms' located?
+2 Mega-ghettos in a decade. I'm sometimes surprised I don't have to send our FDW off to one every evening.sundaymorningstaple wrote:It starts that way, but then will progress to draconian measures. Mark my words. Give them an inch they will feel like they can then take the whole mile. Typical. That is why Subcontinentals like Singapore so much, they think alike, give an inch, take a mile.ecureilx wrote: from what I read the plan is to 'encourage' the workers to reduces outings and not to force it like some middle east countries.
WHERE THEY WILL BE
Nine new dormitories will be built over the next two years, providing nearly 100,000 extra beds for foreign workers.
Woodlands Avenue 10
Capacity: 4,100
Pulau Punggol Timor
Capacity: 4,000
Pulau Punggol Timor
Capacity: 14,000
Admiralty Road West
Capacity: 9,000
Tuas South Avenue 1
Capacity: 16,800
Tuas South Street 15
Capacity: 12,800
Tuas South Street 13
Capacity: 9,200
Sungei Tengah, along Old Choa Chu Kang Road
Capacity: 25,000
Mandai Road
Capacity: 2,000
Total: 96,900 beds
you remember the hoo ha for the serangoon gardens dorms? though the govt went ahead and put the dorm there, despite cries of possible rise in crime because of 'workers', after rounds of consultations ... those were the days the govt did what is right, even after listening to public opinionPNGMK wrote:
+2 Mega-ghettos in a decade. I'm sometimes surprised I don't have to send our FDW off to one every evening.
While I know the problems of housing a lot of foreign workers is not easily overcome I could have thought the current work around of housing them in un-used (or slated for enbloc development) HDB to be a far better idea.
and the dreaded rise in crime rate didn't happen Yes, and that was the major reason that the PAP lost Aljunied GRC to the WP in the 2011 GE. The Gardens is part of Aljunied.ecureilx wrote:you remember the hoo ha for the serangoon gardens dorms? though the govt went ahead and put the dorm there, despite cries of possible rise in crime because of 'workers', after rounds of consultations ... those were the days the govt did what is right, even after listening to public opinionPNGMK wrote:
+2 Mega-ghettos in a decade. I'm sometimes surprised I don't have to send our FDW off to one every evening.
While I know the problems of housing a lot of foreign workers is not easily overcome I could have thought the current work around of housing them in un-used (or slated for enbloc development) HDB to be a far better idea.
btw, the locations of the dorms listed are 'far' from civilization!!!
the lynx wrote:I've seen some mega-dorms in Jurong East and Tuas area and some of them are really nice.
Even nicer than those dingy HDBs that cheap, loan-shark infested landlords try to rent out to feed his addiction, while scheming to cheat yet another gullible foreign tenant for good faith deposit or rental deposit.
someone is on the grumpy pills today. 
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