And it's cured my insomnianakatago wrote:At least, it's not getting deleted.JR8 wrote:Anyway, I get a feeling this is going nowehere...

--- This reads like a solidly serious discussion with no frills. Why should anyone want to delete it?Jeppo wrote:And it's cured my insomnianakatago wrote:At least, it's not getting deleted.JR8 wrote:Anyway, I get a feeling this is going nowehere...
HDB flats are excellent flats at a fraction of the market price. This is a true statement. You, apparently are referring the HDB flats that are being "resold" on the open market. THEY are the ones that are being sold at market value. New HDB flats are heavily subsidized by the Government AND the gahmen offer a number of additional grants to allow citizens to buy at very affordable costs. As far as it being a pipe dream, lots of homes in major cities around the world are not actually "owned" but are long term leases (in the HDB's case, 99 year leases - unless the government decided it needs to buy back the units. Even then, the post is suitably sweetened with alternative locations thrown in as well.JR8 wrote:AnneTeoh...
Yeah I've been in some HDB flats that are like bloody mansions! Crikey O'Reilly!
But I would question your comment 'the HDB provide some very excellent flats at a fraction of the market price'.
After all the price they sell at IS the market price. Plus remember the price they sell at is controlled by the government who have been run by one family for 40+ years. Plus: people who feel they are getting richer every year as their home is worth more, even when it is a chimera, (catching my drift) don't tend to reach for their rifles and take to the barricades.
All so happy in our concrete units eh?
Hi JR8JR8 wrote:P.s. Anne... thank you.
Why indeed can friends not have a robust, informed, intelligent discussion?
Heartened you noted that point! Thot I was in bimbo-land for a bit there....
--- JRB - Yes you may, most welcome, I'd say.JR8 wrote:I'll come back to your long and thoughtful post in due course, if I might
Landed gentry!? I wish. No it was just a damned old house. It had been a coaching inn - i.e. on the route from London to Cambridge where people would stop for the night and rest their horses. When we bought it my father changed it's name as it was still called 'The Hen and Chickens' and he got tired of being asked if we lived in a pub, something it hadn't been for many hundreds of years lol. Some of the ceilings in that place (all the ground floor hallways) were no more than about 5'9" or so... as a result I have a very very hard head :0 Walking around with my head bent to the side is also not a problem LOL ...anneteoh wrote:Your house sounds fab - landed gentry? One of my friend's husband's family have a cluster of large manor type houses with cottages on a huge farm with a 5 acre lake. There'd be croquet on the lawn with iced punch, strawberry cakes and lamb on the spit every summer.JR8 wrote:I'll come back to your long and thoughtful post in due course, if I might
For me , I have a rather large house on 3.2 acres in France but it constantly needs a lot of attention and tenants are a problem. I am putting it on the market. I dream of having just any 2 bedroom flat in Singapore where I need not cook at all unless I've invited guests for dinner! That's what I really miss most of Singapore - food, saftey and convenience.
But I'm not entirely sure how much of a culture and quality of literature there is around to stimulate me. I used to miss my London papers so much!
---Hi. Yes, old houses take all one's time. It was funny... is your head straightened up now? lol My daughter has a house in Sweden with a sloping attic. I constantly bumped my head into the wall when I was drowsy after watching a great programme.JR8 wrote:p.s. Just read the end of your post. Nice bit of property in France, 3 acres is a pretty damned nice garden:)... so are you 'moving home'?
anneteoh wrote:---Hi. Yes, old houses take all one's time. It was funny... is your head straightened up now? lol My daughter has a house in Sweden with a sloping attic. I constantly bumped my head into the wall when I was drowsy after watching a great programme.JR8 wrote:p.s. Just read the end of your post. Nice bit of property in France, 3 acres is a pretty damned nice garden:)... so are you 'moving home'?
But it'll be worthwhile if you have family who want to own it and commit themselves to making it a lovely home. I like that - you know, horses, trees, gradens and veggie plot, the self -sufficient life. I love nature and the touch of the earth. And France is an incredibly beautiful country.
Well, I have that dream house and land but noone in the family wants to have anything to do with it , except for the short visits.
I have 5 options - Sweden, France, London, KL or Singapore. I nearly bought a small condo in Ampang KL but withdrew when the agent told me how small it would be for family visits. It's difficult to choose - and I would happily live in Singapore or KL - great weather, food and lifestyle. But family's rather rooted in UK at least for some time. I reckon it'll be better just to rent and live between countries? Besides, long distant properties stand empty mostly if no one lives in them and tenants are a pretty lousy lot in that distance. So, yes, I've decided to sell the property, somewhat reluctantly. What do you think?
Is it difficult, from what I'd read here, to find a place to rent in Singapore in the present time?
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