If you're paying $3500pm for a condo, you are not "living local". There are quite a few families in Singapore where both parents work and their combined earnings are less than that.Leone Fabre wrote:IYes, we are close to averything and the condo is cheap compared to other areas (3+ bedroom for $3500pm) but the 'locals' just do not want to know us at all......they have this weird idea that we have come here to get the big bucks and take away the jobs from them!!!!
...and here is me 6 mths back thinking it would be a great idea to live in the Heartlands and be amongst the 'locals', shop local and live local be part of the community etc and make the most of the time that we have to spend here...... but it is nothing like that at all.
You are expats. Here today, gone tomorrow. Why would they be interested in getting to know you?We find the 'locals' have no interest in getting to know us, yet we are very easy going and friendly and smile and say hi to everyone......but we get laughed at and comments are made about our "expat package"!!!
Orchard area, condo with 300 appartments, of which only 3 occupied by westerners?Leone Fabre wrote:We live in a condo with over 300 apartments and only 3 have Westerners, up until recently there were 4 but one suffered severe depression and had to return to the US.
Leone
No no... I thought OP did say so JP....jpatokal wrote:Huh? I didn't say anything like that.La grande boucle wrote:Orchard area, condo with 300 appartments, of which only 3 occupied by westerners?
Like JP said, impossible.
need your budget so as to wrk it out for you.MRSP wrote:Looking to move to Singapore and wondering where would be a good area to raise a toddler (19 months). Here's what I currently know!
- Looking for preferably a condo
- My Wife and Toddler will use public transport
- Would like a condo within walking distance to MRT, supermarket, shopping, park, kiddo activities, daycare, etc
- I will have co vehicle that I will drive to work in Tuas area.
I do not know my budget right now, unfortunately. Will have that info soon.
Any ideas?
Hi... we are in Tx right now.. in few months we will move to Singapore.. my husband will work in Tuas.. we have 2 kids (6 yo and 2 yo).. We are looking condos around Newton and Novena.. because our son will go to SAS in Woodlands area.. and the other reasons are the same like yours...MRSP wrote:The area which seems very appealing (at least from online research) is around the Novena MRT. Darn expensive for housing but you have malls, MRT, lots of child care options, good hospital to have a baby (Thomson).
Anyone have any opinions? I take it from the condo rental rates that this area is pretty darn popular.
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