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Singaporeans, by and large, are a meek, kiasi, kiasu, don't want to lose face and a lacking of street wisdom lot and if it were not for the MOS for Sustainability and the Environment, Desmond Tan's parliamentary disclosure that >150,000 or 10% of our households are in arrears of their water bills and >12,000 of them owing... 

I am writing to counter Mr Tan Kin Lian’s suggestion in his opinion piece - “Buy or rent a house?” on TR Emeritus. We have to tackle the root cause of the problem and not simply tell Singaporeans to bite the bullet and go for an alternative. So instead of suggesting that Singaporeans should rent a place to live in, Mr... 

Is it better to buy or rent a house? Most people think that it is better to buy a house to stay in. They lock in their housing cost and also have an appreciating asset. This is no longer the case. House prices have gone up so high. It cannot continue to go up at a high rate. We have now reached a point where house prices have...