A netizen on LinkedIn said that it is “very hard” for her to live in Singapore because “HDB people” are allowed to work in private residential areas.
She said that it is necessary to limit contact with them otherwise she will lose her “unique identity”, which she says the “HDB people” have lost.
She said that people in the rich areas have their own identity and are different because they have a different “outlook on community building”.
The OP added that the “HDB people” only care about money and not values, and they sit and wait to be told what to do.
Here is what she said
It’s very hard for me to live in Singapore because the govt allows HDB people to take jobs in private residential areas. Which means they don’t just visit, they remain for about 6-8hours a day. And that’s a lot. So it is necessary to limit contact with them less I lose #uniqueidentity as most of them have. But they did it by choice, most of them.
It is time to accept, for the large part, HDB people and private residence people are very different because of our outlook on community building.
Private residence, we build according to values and mindset, we ignore race, language and religion and prioritise mental acuity and emotional stability. We don’t wait to live life, we live now. We show our values and our humanity in how we work, play and hire.
In HDB, it is simply about networks and rules that the govt can give them, and they sit and wait for those, and until then they group according to age, race and marital status. It tells us nothing of their values nor their humanity. They are about money, not values.
Happiness is not about humanity. Humanity is about humanity.
