BTO horror stories : Did you regretted your BTO choice after staying there due to the environment?
Some backstory to my question.
Back around 2015, I applied for BTO in the west side of Singapore because back then the BTO projects were largely concentrated in the sengkang/punggol area and those weren’t my favourite locations. Plus there were plans about making the west the next CBD etc thing as well as the high speed rail project. The price of the BTO was manageable for my salary back then and would be considered relative cheap (who dont like cheap right?)
Water under the bridge, everything happened and fast forward….
I’ve been staying in my current estate for a few years now and frankly I really like this area and the west side in general, but it’s the people’s behaviour and the kind of people staying there that make me regret my choice.
Below are a few of them:
Very often I observed very serious high rise littering, ranging from packaging products to food, tissue, etc. The cleaners are doing their best trying to keep up with the litters.
Dog poo. There are so many dog owners here, including myself. But there is also a high number of unethical ones. Dog pee still ok, pee in grass or pee on lamp post etc, but some of these people don’t even pick up their dog poo and poos are everywhere, from staircase to shelter areas and even on grass.
Unruly neighbours. I have a verbally rude neighbour living near my unit who is constantly shouting at his family. Neighbours who are singing karaoke at anytime of the day, even at 9pm and blasting for everyone to hear. Screaming, shouting and even fights at the common areas late into the night. Sometimes police are involved.
The latest case, some druggie caught by police and it was reported in the news.
I’ll probably get flamed to oblivion for this, but I told my wife immediately after reading the news. Are we staying in a gettho?
All these are making me feel like I unknowing onboarded into problematic estate and it’s making feel really uncomfortable staying here. I used to stay in the infamous north side of Singapore and I can assure you, Yishun might be crazy, but not as crazy as what I experience in my estate alone for the last few years.
I will definitely shift out of my current estate into a better one in the next few years and again, I’m going to state something really nasty but I stand by it and some might agree with me, that estates that are generally more expensive serves as a poverty barrier and naturally you will observe less of such unruly things happening in such close proximity around where you’re staying.
Let me know your stories if you have one.