JustSee wrote:Hi all,
Hi, welcome to the forum.
I have been accepted to a job in Singapore, after reading through the different forums I am left with bits of unanswered questions and I hope you can assist me answering these.
I have read that when renting an apartment the landlord takes on himself the property tax - is this true in most cases?
Yes
Are there any taxes that should be payed by me on renting the apartment? - I mean monthly/bimonthly taxes and not stamping or agent fees.
No. The owner is liable and not the tenant.
Are there any parts of Singapore that I should avoid when renting an apartment? Parts where traffic will not allow you to sleep at night or other parts where there are extremists? (I am from Israel and my nationality makes it harder to live in some parts.)
Singapore is a city state and hence (in my opinion) is generally noisy. I'd avoid places like in the City (CBD) Marina Bay, Shenton Way that must be one of the world's biggest construction sites. Also when flat-hunting avoid proximity to obvious construction sites. There are a handful of highways that criss-cross the state and these tend to run 24/7 as well and I don't know if SG has got the concept of double-glazing.
Extremists? No I don't think so, most SGns wouldn't recognise an Israeli if they had an IDF platoon complete with hardware sat right in front of them. More seriously SG is so small that it is generally quite homogenous. There are no ghettos as such, or areas that one might wish to avoid. There are areas that have higher concentrations of one race but multi-culturalism is a state imposed dogma and there is zero point zero tolerance for racial stirring, never mind 'extremism'.
Has anyone had an experience when relocating pets to take the dog for a walk when you were stopping for a connection for over an hour?
Can't help but try a search (the button under the Profile button) and search for 'dog' and 'pet relocation', and you'll find some recent discussions on the topic.
Any recommendations on hotels that might allow pets in?
-The dog will be in quarantine and I will be travelling with my two parrots as I understood that no quarantine is needed for birds so I will be taking them with me to a hotel for a period of a week or two.
First time I've seen this asked! No idea, maybe others have!
Thank you all!
Ilia.
zzm9980 wrote: As for your parrot... I saw a pair of guys a week or two ago at the beach. They were each out on the breaker, about 300m from each other. They'd toss this parrot into the air, and it would fly to the other guy blowing a whistle. Back and forth. Pretty fun to watch. Not sure I want one though.
The parrot was blowing a whistle? This I've got to seezzm9980 wrote:As for your parrot... I saw a pair of guys a week or two ago at the beach. They were each out on the breaker, about 300m from each other. They'd toss this parrot into the air, and it would fly to the other guy blowing a whistle. Back and forth.
Hah sorry. The two guys would each take turns blowing a whistle. The parrot flew to whoever was blowing it.Mi Amigo wrote:The parrot was blowing a whistle? This I've got to seezzm9980 wrote:As for your parrot... I saw a pair of guys a week or two ago at the beach. They were each out on the breaker, about 300m from each other. They'd toss this parrot into the air, and it would fly to the other guy blowing a whistle. Back and forth.
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