ST Forum: Build ECs At Prime Locations

[Funner]

  On 8/17/2011 at 2:13 PM, Viceroymenthol said:

Don't talk c--k lah.

 

These 2 areas got no more state land big enough for the typical 1000 units type of EC.

 

So HDB has to buy en bloc land at $3000-$4000 psf ppr. Plus the cost of construction? Add another $300-$400 psf ppr.

 

Ok how much do you want HDB to sell these orchard and nassim ECs?

 

Everybody has a right to stay there? Can, overthrow PAP and make this the communist republic of singapore. Btw, you sound like a Marxist conspirator. Be careful ah.

u dont get it

if you are poor that does not meant that you cannot enjoy things that the state can control

 

like museum, where are are days that are free, so rich or poor can enjoy

 

as for property

why must poor be only given a choice of suburban areas

in many developed countries the poor lives beside the rich

 

please dont look down on the poor

[Throttle2]

  On 8/18/2011 at 3:07 PM, Funner said:

u dont get it

if you are poor that does not meant that you cannot enjoy things that the state can control

 

like museum, where are are days that are free, so rich or poor can enjoy

 

as for property

why must poor be only given a choice of suburban areas

in many developed countries the poor lives beside the rich

 

please dont look down on the poor

 

 

err....i got mental block....i stupid....can you tell me which developed countries these are?

Edited August 18, 2011 by Throttle2

[Viceroymenthol]

  On 8/18/2011 at 3:05 PM, Throttle2 said:

Yes it depends, I agree.

 

Can built, if today is 1966

Not big deal if today is 1966

Everybody has a right to stay, if today is 1966.

 

but it is NOT 1966. So do you see things as they are in 1966?

 

I wasnt born yet... Do u know if policemen wore shorts in 1966?

[Viceroymenthol]

  On 8/18/2011 at 3:07 PM, Funner said:

u dont get it

if you are poor that does not meant that you cannot enjoy things that the state can control

 

like museum, where are are days that are free, so rich or poor can enjoy

 

as for property

why must poor be only given a choice of suburban areas

in many developed countries the poor lives beside the rich

 

please dont look down on the poor

 

I haven't seen any country or city in the world in which the rich live beside the poor. Besides, in many developed cities, it is the rich who live in suburban areas and the poor live in urban ghettos.

 

Maybe during the cultural revolution in china, the ex-rich worked and lived in the same coal mines as the poor.

Edited August 18, 2011 by Viceroymenthol

[Throttle2]

  On 8/18/2011 at 3:14 PM, Viceroymenthol said:

I wasnt born yet... Do u know if policemen wore shorts in 1966?

 

 

They did, i believe.

[Tjkbeluga]

  On 8/18/2011 at 3:07 PM, Funner said:

u dont get it

if you are poor that does not meant that you cannot enjoy things that the state can control

 

like museum, where are are days that are free, so rich or poor can enjoy

 

as for property

why must poor be only given a choice of suburban areas

in many developed countries the poor lives beside the rich

 

please dont look down on the poor

You better go live in communist country then... You want?

[TandemAssassin]

  On 8/18/2011 at 3:07 PM, Funner said:

u dont get it

if you are poor that does not meant that you cannot enjoy things that the state can control

 

like museum, where are are days that are free, so rich or poor can enjoy

 

as for property

why must poor be only given a choice of suburban areas

in many developed countries the poor lives beside the rich

 

please dont look down on the poor

 

there is a distinction. the museum is not a scarce resource. i seldom see people Q up to enter the museum even when it is free entry. do you know that all NUS students have free entry into museums? how many do you think go to the museum and how many do you think pay to go to butter factory?

 

as for land, it is a scarce resource in Singapore. i will be glad if they can control the prices of HDB flats (which they have difficulty with already). the distortions brought about by the HDB scheme is already making lift difficult. for things like houses on prime land, i think less intervention is better! i think the EC scheme is giving some deluded Singaporeans the illusion that it is an atas housing and should be in an atas area!

 

come to think of it. while EC residents to be are not rich, they can hardly be considered poor. so why are we looking down on the poor when all we are doing is laughing at one deluded (potential) EC resident?

[Scoots]

  On 8/18/2011 at 3:07 PM, Funner said:

u dont get it

if you are poor that does not meant that you cannot enjoy things that the state can control

 

like museum, where are are days that are free, so rich or poor can enjoy

 

as for property

why must poor be only given a choice of suburban areas

in many developed countries the poor lives beside the rich

 

please dont look down on the poor

 

No... you don't get it.

 

It's not a case of looking down on the poor. In fact, there's nothing of that sort here.

 

It's just a plain simple case of a person with unrealistic expectations... she'll have more chance of having here pime location residence buy trying her luck at Toto and winning the money to buy her preferred housing at prime location.

 

 

[Funner]

  On 8/17/2011 at 12:04 PM, Tigershark1976 said:

of course,Y not? built in Sentosa also can... question is, how much money to pay? HDB is suppose to be affordable to average Singaporean (low and middle class). if built in Nassim park and sell at 2 to 3 mill for an EC.... is that still consider a HDB??

HDB in redhill, holland V, Duxton etc

these are prized location too