Public Housing HDB
January 2nd, 2025 | 
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Someone who had stayed and worked in Australia made a comment that Singapore is "better" than Australia.
It is said that housing is "comparably cheaper" in Singapore. The comparison is made between Sydney and Singapore HDB.
Why Sydney and not other second or third tier cities? Why compare public housing HDB with private apartment or condominium in Sydney?
The definition of "comparable" is actually skewed and slanted. They are really NOT comparable just for one simple reason, can you provide any Strata Titles for HDB which private housing in Australia has?
Many Singaporeans are pretty superficial and ignorant when they tried to make comparisons.
What so important about Strata Titles? It specifically means you own a certain part or percentage of the whole land which your apartment or condo is built on. You can do enbloc or decide on whatever things to be built on this land.
But you can't do that for HDB. because legally and technically you don't own that land and you don't have any Strata Titles.
Someone had tried to apply to do enbloc of their HDB flats before and they went to court and fight it out. Eventually they lost, expectedly. They didn't know they don't really own that land without Strata Titles.
So next time when someone come up to you to make such "comparison", just ask them for their HDB strata titles.
We must make comparable comparisons, remember?
Goh Meng Seng
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So working in Australia did not make him smarter?
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He said, in comparison to Perth FREEHOLD, our HDB would ALWAYS appreciate in value.
He meant ALWAYS. No 99=0 scam.
Even in China, when the lease is up, renewal is the default.
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Well, aren’t the MIW happy to see that? But this is the behaviour of unscrupulous people. Unlike the MIW, our neighbour’s government had decided not to scam their citizens by publishing a new statistics to gauge the basic expenditure needed for decent living.
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So, in Johor it will be about RM$1300 per month for a single. Can a SG single survived on S$1300 a month? Don’t BS about exchange rate, no one is earning in SG and spending in MY. This is about earning in your home country and spending it there. For a 4 person household in Kuala Lumpur it is RM6536. In SG, this amount sufficient for a family of 4?
Let’s admit it, our government don’t even dare to publish a similar statistics like our neighbour. Best to keep the daft ones ignorant.
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Our gov says 1 or 2 million dollars a year needed for a family.
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His brain went down under if you get what I mean.
It’s a favourable comparison.
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Don’t talk c**k lah, GMS. How much you pay for a HDB and how much for private?
Want Strata Title? That’s why I say OPPOS & Sinkies are free riders and GREEDY. Want strata? Pay for it and stop trying to be an opportunist!!!
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