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by Michael_V » Wed, 02 Feb 2005 11:23 pm
Hmmmm.....I'm looking for a subtext relative to your wink. I have indeed read that Batam is pretty wild and wide-open. Is this so? I wanted my wife and kids to be safe and secure, with proximity to all the mod cons, schools, hospitals, etc, if Batam is in fact more, er,.....more. I understand it is, in addition to an oilfield support center, a more or less free trade and industrial zone.
I confess absolute ignorance on all things Singapore as well as Batam. I was entertaining the notion that I could find a nice 2- or 3-bdrm bungalow or semi-d in Sg for maybe US$2000/month? Two boys in elementary school (British or Aussie; cannot afford the American School) at US$5000/year each? Groceries, public transport, utilities and misc. for another US$1K/month?
Plus a small bungalow in Batam for a fraction of the foregoing?
Am I wildly off-base here?