Originally posted by maurizio13:
1) 90 sq.m for $150,000 to $200,000? Which god forsaken kampong
(village) is this area?
{Enter 3-room + Toa Payoh + Search} Toa Payoh 3-room (2 bedroom + 1
hall), [60 sq.m to 78 sq.m] price ranges from $183,000 to
$270,000.
Who were you intending to trick?
For the $250,000 you pay for a 3-room HDB (2 bedroom + 1 hall), you
could get this 2 bedroom + Swimming Pool in Perth for
AU$169,000.
For AU$299,000, you could get a 412 sq.m (4,434 sq.ft) property
tax, free semi-detached house. At least 6 times your average 3-room
HDB leasehold flat.
Wow!!! Must be a bargain deal!!! 4-room HDB going at $150,000 to
$200,000!!! Is this HDB related to any body part murders??? Any
Adrian Lim satanic human sacrifice ritual took place there?
30mins by train from Pasir Ris or SengKang? Peak hours 30
mins?
Low crime rate doesn't mean no violent crime, so many vicious body
part murders these days. Another POSSIBLE reason of low crime rate
could be police non-involvement, as can be seen from some recent
cases of fight, where police ask the aggrieved to take civil
action. Thereby not including the number in the crime
statistics.
No water shortage because we are recycling our toilet waters to
drink. Which can be easily overcome by Australia, but I think they
have more dignity than to drink their own urine and sh|t water.
Moreover drinking too much of recycled water is not good, as they
contain a chemical additive that is carcinogenic.
2) Though they have a mortgage rate of 7.5%, but this is more or
less abated by Australia not having a property tax. In Singapore
our property tax for owner occupied property is 4%.
Just think about the property taxes you will still be paying even
when you retire, whereas Australians don't need to pay any property
taxes when they retire.
i am not PAP supporters but as far as i know, australia these days
are not cheap to stay either. how i know? coz my kids are
there.
For the $250,000 you pay for a 3-room HDB (2 bedroom + 1
hall), you could get this 2 bedroom + Swimming Pool in Perth for
AU$169,000.
For AU$299,000, you could get a 412 sq.m (4,434 sq.ft) property
tax, free semi-detached house. At least 6 times your average 3-room
HDB leasehold flat. [b]
these data are probably more than 3 years ago.
in Perth these days, few houses go below AUD300k for a decent one.
prepare +AUD700k if u r looking for 10 minutes drive to perth
city.
the cheaper city nowadays could be adelaide.
points i do agree that for those hard labours, middle lower, lower
skills job, australia does indeed pay 3-5 times higher than those
in singapore.
however when come to middle management or top management jobs, it
is almost equal or could sometimes lower than singapore due to the
tax deduction. You are right that waitress, carpenters, plumber,
car mechanics, cashier earns good living in australia and everyone
as long as got a job could live decently a good living in
australia. the same cannot be said for the same group in singapore
holding the same comparison jobs.
But on the otherhand, as far as i am concern after speaking to
group of singaporeans, they are majority PAP supporters. either
they are contented of the life or the propanganda by the Goebbels
are magnificient in making ppl beliebve there is no land better
than singapore.
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