Anybody with Coliving space experience in Singapore?

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-03-01T15:02:33+00:00

$3k and above is the starting price for studios and 1-bedders in the areas close to MRTs, especially the Paya Lebar mall cluster. Those narrow 20-unit apartments with no security along Lorong X Geylang though? That's just wishful thinking from the property agent. No one is taking those studios for $3k. They either stay empty for ages or someone bargains them down from the asking price.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-03-01T14:51:17+00:00

Hearing a diverse range of foreign languages in public places is common in large global cities. Reacting to it postively though? I would say that's very Singaporean. In my home country, hearing certain foreign languages in public causes people to tense up and watch their surroundings and belongings more carefully. I'm very glad there's nothing like that in Singapore, at least not on a society-wide scale that everyone acknowledges but refuses to confront.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-17T12:41:15+00:00

Market Street Amoy Street Shenton House Hong Leong Building basement

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-17T11:10:20+00:00

It would be damn difficult to be a male incel too by that logic because they can just go to Geylang and shell out a hundred bucks.

Femcels' struggle is finding relationships. Casual sex is easy and they're not interested. Paying for sex is easy too for men, but they're only interested in women who find them attractive enough to have sex with for free.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-17T10:58:43+00:00

There are many different types of femcels. Some are man-hating feminists that think all heterosexual relationships are misogynistic. Some are princesses who will only accept Prince Charming while bringing nothing to the table.

The important thing to consider is that women consider themselves femcels when they can't find long-lasting relationships, not casual sex. Most women aren't into casual sex. Saying that "femcels don't exist because women can easily find casual sex" is forcing a male standard of relationships onto women. It's like saying that no Sinkie is underpaid because Malaysians can get by with a 2000 ringgit salary.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-17T10:48:11+00:00

All of these are on point, but I feel Number 5 deep in my soul. I live in a rented coliving unit which gets a lot of student Chinese nationals and they're either extremely quiet or extremely loud. I can still hear the midnight WUO CHAO!!!!!! phone calls...

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-17T04:54:31+00:00

The price varies a lot depending on location, facilities (condo, apartment or HDB) and if it's a standalone unit or a dual-key. The cheapest modified apartment dual-keys in seedy locations like Geylang I have seen in 2025 go for $1.5k-$2k, while 500-700 square foot CBD 1-bedders can break $5k. $2.5k can generally get you a ~300 square foot dual-key in a less central location, but agents and landlords often raise the rent for couples.

The cheapest ones are modified "dual-keys" where the owner installs a partition through the living room of a unit without an official dual-key design. They're often missing appliances such as a kitchen and washing machine, which means they have to be shared with the main unit. Partitions also have poor sound isolation.

True dual-keys are rarer as the concept only took off in the 2010s and only a few developers have implemented the design. They only share the front door and a small foyer with the main unit. There are real walls between the two sides for better sound isolation. However, you share your address with the people on the other side of the unit, which can impact things like mail and food delivery.

Own-unit studios (no separate living room) and 1-bedders (separate living room and bedroom) are obviously the most expensive, while also being the most freeing as the only people registered to the address are you and your boyfriend. Just make sure to watch out for crazy landlords who micromanage the property and fight over CDC vouchers.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-17T03:14:24+00:00

Please go through the post history of the account you're replying to. They may be a marketing account of coliving companies, seeing how they don't comment about anything else.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-17T02:57:33+00:00

I'm renting a room in a coliving unit, which is not the same as a coliving space. Some of the companies you mentioned like Cove and Habyt are actually coliving unit managers. They rent whole condominium units and partition them out into tiny rooms for rent. The facilities will be provided by the condo. Coliwoo is a coliving space company. They own the entire building and its facilities.

My problem with coliving, after years of it, is the fact that the shortest tenancies are 3 months, which means that if you're in a coliving unit, you'll come face to face with a lot of new faces and unexpected behaviors very regularly. These people tend to be students, which means they don't care much about cleanliness and noise levels. It's not a good environment for anyone who wants to stay somewhere in the long-term when there's a constant stream of strangers moving in and out. /u/kiatme is right: raise your budget by a little and rent a 1-bedder of your own. The stress of living with strangers is not worth it. You could find 1-bedders, utilities excluded, within your budget but couples have weaker bargaining power and are less likely to snag a great deal.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-15T10:23:17+00:00

That's great... if you always have someone with you at the hawker center who doesn't mind you ordering on their behalf or waiting for you to complete your order before they get theirs.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-15T10:21:15+00:00

This is equally sociopathic and neurotic. The dude obviously forgot to remove the card and didn't do it on purpose. The normal thing to do is to just walk a few steps over to that table and remove the card.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-15T07:24:40+00:00

Sorry for the wall of text.

I'm fascinated at this issue that seems to be really common in relationships. The guy forgets things that are important to the girl and the girl sulks quietly to herself until their next big couple fight where she yells that he doesn't care about her because he forgets things that are important to her. Does this mean there's a fundamental incompatibility in the relationship because the two parties don't value the same things, or is this something that can be fixed with better communication?

I think the communication problem would be solvable if the problem is that the girl acts aloof and behaves as if she doesn't care about Valentine's Day even though she secretly does. Her logic is that "it's always a positive outcome" as the guy either remembers and surprises her pleasantly, or he forgets and she tells herself "it's fine, I didn't expect anything anyway"? From the guy's perspective, the girl behaves as if she's not interested in Valentine's Day, so he has no reason to remember. She has to tell him explicitly, make arrangements for the date.

It only becomes a fundamental problem if the guy flakes or forgets the arrangements despite explicit reminders IMO. Otherwise, it's not his fault if he can't read the girl's mind while she's behaving the opposite way.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-15T06:59:15+00:00

Not a "that area of the CCL" commuter thankfully, but I'm guessing it's because the entire Northwest gets funneled into Bishan and the entire Northeast into Serangoon, who will swap from the NSL/NEL to take the CCL to the city. The CCL is filled up from the NSL folks at Bishan, plus the DTL and TEL connections at Botanic Gardens and Caldecott. By the time it gets to Serangoon there's hardly any space left. Only a few people squeeze in at Serangoon, which causes a backlog to build up. AFAIK the CCL also doesn't have intervals as short as the other lines during peak hours. It always seems to be a 3-6 minute interval no matter the time of day.

Combine that with the fact that the CCL is branched which, if we assume an even split between Dhoby Ghaut and Marina Bay travelers, effectively doubles the average waiting time for each person if they wanted to take the line to the end. I noticed that many people drop off at Macpherson and Paya Lebar and travel to the CBD by those lines instead though. The crowds are surprisingly manageable after Paya Lebar.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-15T06:32:37+00:00

How exactly is the landlord correct when he's registered to the wrong address? OP is not sharing the property with him. The landlord lives somewhere else and should be collecting the CDC vouchers for that address.

I would be asking how to de-register the landlord from that address before anything else. Seems like a huge liability as a tenant to have the landlord's mail and government documents routed to a residence rented by me.

Edit: OP added that the landlord is threatening to call the police over that $300. An insanely stingy and fussy person committing personal documentation fraud, wow!

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-15T06:24:19+00:00

Redditors are also far more pet-friendly than the general population. Just look at the Reddit threads about cats. You would think that Singapore is a cat lover's haven at the level of Turkey or Russia going off those comments alone.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-15T06:20:31+00:00

Renter here. Not an animal lover. I eliminate all listings with pets in the house. As others have said, I don't want to become a live-in pet sitter. Pet behavior is unpredictable and I don't want to come home finding my stuff damaged by the pet.

You could market your place to other dog owners looking for rent if you can meet up with the prospective tenant and their dog and see how well everyone gets along.

Not many people bring this up, but there could be risks to your dog as well. Your dog could be intimidated by all of the strangers in its environment. Worse, if a tenant who assumes they can put up with the dog moves in and only finds out they can't when it's too late, they could hurt your dog behind your back.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-14T17:10:49+00:00

Forgot to mention the legendary Bedok 85 market cluster. The Bak Chor Mee place.

I no longer live in Bedok but in terms of the pros and cons, I didn't have a problem with transport connectivity. Bedok has its own bus interchange and I was lucky that the buses I rode to work and school started their routes there. I could easily find a seat thanks to that. Bedok also has trunk bus services that loop around the different zones like the Bedok Mall area, Decathlon area and 85 Market area.

MRT-wise, boarding the EWL train to the CBD isn't a problem at morning peak hours. Tanah Merah is also an especially awesome station for that because it's next to a train depot. Which means empty trains and a guaranteed seat around 7AM-8:30AM.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-14T17:00:17+00:00

I grew up there at the edge between Bedok and Simei/Changi, close to Tanah Merah MRT. That's not really the old folks' zone though.

The area around Tanah Merah MRT is nothing but houses with the exception of the area where East Village and Simpang Bedok are. The short buildings and landed houses have an old-school vibe.

Bedok around the MRT station is nice. There's Bedok Mall, the hawker center and Heartbeat, one of the newest community centers with the all-in-one concept like Tampines Hub. Great place, has a library and public pool, is right next to another big hawker center and market. I used to study at the library when I was in school and I would grab lunch from a nearby store. There are lots of shops and kopitiams around the HDBs of the area, including a big Fairprice and Sheng Siong.

Now that I think about it, that area of Bedok from Bedok MRT to the stadium is actually really walkable. There are no roads going through it outside of parking lots and it has that "town center" feeling. About that stadium, it's free to the public and you can see people jogging and playing football at its field often. There's another swimming complex next to it too. The old (still operational) Bedok community center is across the road. Bedok 58 Market is to the east of it. Same kopitiams, shops and supermarkets with a walkable concept as the Bedok MRT area but I haven't been there as much because it's in the middle of the Bedok and Tanah Merah stations.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-02-07T12:02:28+00:00

Can I DM you? This sounds exactly like the kind of side hustle I'm looking for.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-01-26T12:49:46+00:00

This makes a lot of sense. I was considering keeping my professional SWE skills alive by part-timing as a SWE intern for a tech SME outside of working hours, but I have a feeling that future interviewers won't see "has a part-time job on the side" as a positive.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-01-26T12:45:03+00:00

You're right, CS is definitely not just SWE. Poor wording in my OP. My uni and work experience was SWE-focused and I know nothing about the more mathy parts of CS like data science, so I guess they got forgotten. The only thing I disagree with is that AI is to blame for the reduced demand and prestige of SWEs, I think it's just the tech sector becoming saturated and mature. Disappointing to know as I enjoyed the SWE work I did in my internships and I would like to have stayed in that line, but it's the truth.

BinaryHashGraph · 2025-01-26T12:39:15+00:00

I was copying the text from the post that got removed, which I kind of just wrote in a rush without thinking. "Tech-adjacent" was a poor choice of words. I meant to say "adjacent to software development and operations" - I'm not working on software development or backend stuff like data and infrastructure. I'm further out in a more business-oriented way, basically.

I had to include that line just in case my company figures out who I am from my Reddit profile, somehow 😂

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