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Have an offer to work for swedish company in Stockholm. My salary would be 140000 SGD per year, but tax rat would be 58%.Even the VAT in Sweden is 25%. What should I do?? You will roughly have the same buying power as with a 70000 SGD salary in Singapore. Of course all that tax is being spent on th...

24601 wrote:Wow that's shocking. Singapore failing to meet basic human rights.... In the UK it's illegal for any room without a window to be used as a bedroom. I can't believe they're essentially building windowless prisons.

It is illegal over here too. But who gives a damn?

Big Mac wrote: Anyway i think the decision really can only be made once i am on the ground.
swim.

Yes, it would be a very bad idea to rent a place before seeing it first. Even a pretty fancy condo may have rather substandard toilets and kitchen etc.

@sundaymorningstaple: I've never heard of an employer recommending an employee to get PR. Most do their best to stop the employee from doing so as it will cost them more not less. I'm currently in a similar situation. My prospective employer (academic) seems to prefer that I apply for PR. They clai...

The price difference between a condo with facilities and a private apartment without facilities is not big. As others have pointed out, an HDB of similar standard can easily reach a similar price as well (except there are not many HDBs in Novena). So I wouldn't say that you should avoid the faciliti...

As I already said, condos are much cheaper in Woodlands than further south. But perhaps you are also considering HDB's. If you do, you will see that HDB's in the suburbs often are newer and of higher quality than HDB's in central areas. In Yishun, Sembawang and Woodlands you can (with some luck/pati...

Check this one out for some tips if you haven't: http://forum.singaporeexpats.com/ftopic68790.html

So I'm an American student who's going to be working in Singapore from May 14th to August 14th. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to find a place to stay. With that May 14th date barreling towards my still-without-housinged-self pretty rapidly, I'm starting to get worried. I've been trawling t...

The strongest argument for moving to Woodlands would be money, and thats a major argument. I dont think you can rent a 1500 sqf condo apartment for less than 2.5 K anywhere else in Singapore. I have been living in Woodlands for some time and I'm quite happy with it. Its definitely much more quiet th...

There is always this kind of risk if you have visitors whatever level of stupidity the management may show (as for yours or mine criteria if different). You may have 8 visiting family members, not just two and then what? It is always a compromise. Personally I think this should be a problem to be s...

Edmundfo wrote:And now I discovered that I can't even exit the condo without my access card. Madness beyond my wildest imagination.

And finally they seem to have discovered that in order to be consistent with this mad scheme, they need to manually check the access card of everyone entering the condo.

Strong Eagle wrote:Very common to find in office buildings, hotels in many US cities... can't say that I've seen one here.

Because singaporeans have better things to do?

And now I discovered that I can't even exit the condo without my access card. Madness beyond my wildest imagination.

Hi I was wondering if somebody knows the current rental at Anchorage, we are staying there and its soon time for renegotiating the lease. Currently we pay 4k/m (1500sqft 3BR+1) which we find quite pricey for such a run-down place. PS. On the URA site there were not enough transactions last Q to be ...

Hi I was wondering if somebody knows the current rental at Anchorage, we are staying there and its soon time for renegotiating the lease. Currently we pay 4k/m (1500sqft 3BR+1) which we find quite pricey for such a run-down place. PS. On the URA site there were not enough transactions last Q to be ...