How do you normally deal with those who look down on you?
We are a family of 3 and stay in HDB and do not own car. We are not into brandrd stuff as well. We live a simple life. We dont even have driving license because we dont think it is necessary yet as the public transport in SG is already very convenient and good.
However, we travel pretty often. We mostly travel during school holiday. In addition, like once or twice we will go to europe during school holidays.
Some of our circle of friends often ask us this:
“How come you can go europe few times? Its not cheap right. How do you do it?”
“Eh why don’t you buy the BTO in this place? This is very good but its pretty expensive though. Like 800k larrr..”
“Wah your job can earn that much meh till can go to europe?”
So this is the thing. Our household income exceeds the maximum BTO income ceiling. Its not we do not want to buy or cannot afford to buy. We are not eligible to buy BTO. But we cannot be telling them this as we feel it sounds too bragging.
We go to Europe every year is exactly because we stay in HDB and do not own cars/other expensive expenses. To be honest, we do not even have to spend a single cash for our HDB because our monthly morgage is paid off by my husband’s monthly CPF. So the gross salary we receive every month is solely for our savings and monthly groceries/expenses. So it is safe to say, our most monthly expensive expense is only our HDB mortgage. Our only debt is our HDB. This is why we have some spare cash for our luxurious travel.
If they ask us once or twice in a while, i think its fine. But they ask us everytime they meet us, it is pretty bothering.
Is it just because you live in HDB, do not live in Condo do not own cars in SG snd not into branded stuff, you are considered “poor”?