Your current home and commute:
- looking for two rooms (plus a kitchen and a living room)
With the given budget AND the wife looking for an active social life (understood by me as interacting with other expats wives/spouses) AND a vicinity of MRT, it may be a difficult puzzle to solve even if you are fine with HDB. I would suggest you first look for HDB estates along the yellow line and see if anything reasonable could be found.karanmaroo wrote:Priorities:
- Budget: SGD 2,500 per month
- Office in: Marina Bay Financial Center
- 2 rooms
- will you have a car here? No
- A proximity to the MRT is a must. Would prefer the red/yellow line but I'm fine with the other lines as well
- will you have any accompanying children needing to attend school? If so, age/s? No
Nice to have:
- access to squash, badminton and gym/yoga trainer facilities
- an access to the library would be a plus but is not necessary
- an access to the market will be nice
- an access to some open area for jogging would be a plus as well
- my wife would be looking for an active social life (presuming its not easy finding jobs for her)
- not fussed about living in condos, am fine with HDBs also
Your current home and commute:
- looking for two rooms (plus a kitchen and a living room)
- willing to commute upto 45 minutes one way, but only by walk/MRT
East Coast,Toa Payo and perhaps Simei (not sure) could probably be the best bets in respect of your wife's local, walking distance entertaining circle but I would suggest to forget about your wife - Singapore is small and she could travel to meet other people - then all these locations are fine.karanmaroo wrote:@rarkins - My apologies if I was not clear. Trust @sundaymorningstaple has clarified it.
@x9200 - Many thanks for your revert, much appreciated. Been going through the forum over the last few days and understand that I could look at the following areas for my set of requirements:
1) The stretch from Tao Payo to Yishun: I understand that I could get HDBs within 10 minutes walking distance of the Tao Payo station, or closer to the Yishun MRT station - either ways, my travel time one way to MBFC would be about 50 minutes.
2) Bedok - Simei stretch
3) Clementi, Jurong East
4) Kovan - Punggol stretch
5) Serangoon (Will explore your suggestion here on more stations along the yellow line)
6) I also understand that I could look at options along the East Coast (Telok Karua, Marine Parade) as the flats in these areas are not very expensive. The MRTs, of course, could be at a distance of 3-4 kms from these flats. However, it looks like the buses to downtown are fairly comfortable (and could also allow me seating space). Is my understanding here correct?
Many thanks
Many thanks @x9200 , much appreciated!x9200 wrote: East Coast,Toa Payo and perhaps Simei (not sure) could probably be the best bets in respect of your wife's local, walking distance entertaining circle but I would suggest to forget about your wife - Singapore is small and she could travel to meet other people - then all these locations are fine.
General rule: further away from the central part, West/North, less expats in the condos and one order of magnitude lesser in HDBs. Outside the more central places (including the whole Bukit Timah stretch) there are only some few areas I believe where there is sufficient critical mass of expats so if she goes out she is going to meet them regularly. For example, I always see Caucasians (lets assume they are an indicator) in Bishan Park or Pasir Ris Park.
You could also consider Bukit Batok / Bukit Gombak - Bukit Batok Nature Park is in a walking distance and a very popular place among expats for running/exercising, walking, playing with children...
Yes. You purchase what is in effect a stored value card that you can top up whenever you need to and it works seamlessly for trains and buses. http://ezlink.com.sg/karanmaroo wrote:Regarding transportation - are metro lines and buses in Singapore integrated? As in, can I get a monthly pass kind of a thing if I need to combine the two for travel?
Thanks a lot. Will keep this in mind.Addadude wrote:Yes. You purchase what is in effect a stored value card that you can top up whenever you need to and it works seamlessly for trains and buses. http://ezlink.com.sg/karanmaroo wrote:Regarding transportation - are metro lines and buses in Singapore integrated? As in, can I get a monthly pass kind of a thing if I need to combine the two for travel?
Some of the banks here even have EZLink integrated into their credit cards.
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