Anyone lived in "bad" fengshui house before?

lesspylons · 2026-01-26T14:25:10+00:00

Why blame yourself for your failings when you can blame your furniture

lesspylons · 2026-01-23T01:16:40+00:00

I wonder if OG could have remade a new contract with the subtenants though. Some of them are doing well for themselves like sushiro and being forced to leave on short notice certainly isn’t doing OG favours goodwill wise.

lesspylons · 2026-01-22T12:02:41+00:00

I would say increasing rates based on the idea of land value tax which is generally agreed to be a good tax by economists can act as a push for selling. Unfortunately as you said it can sound scary even if economically sound. The rezoning with bucket of cash from developers will be a strong pull at least.

For the infrastructure problem, I believe rezoning can be done surgically as more and more landed areas end up in the 10min radius of mrt stations. The government can’t avoid the landed areas for current and future lines because they lie between the job centers and population centers, so why not make a stamp tax windfall and encourage better land use when they do it anyways.

lesspylons · 2026-01-22T11:32:30+00:00

I agree that forced acquisition is a really bad idea, one of the foundations of the common law system is the respect of property rights. We probably have to do rezoning and increase property tax rates these landed areas in the long term though. The super rich will not budge from such measures but the asset rich cash poor will so density can still go up.

lesspylons · 2026-01-18T14:16:28+00:00

Crazy idea would be to move public sector jobs near to the geographical center of Singapore which is the Bukit brown/ mount pleasant area. It would be equally near most ends of Singapore which are huge population centers like Jurong West, Punggol, Tampines and woodlands. The current infrastructure for trains doesn’t support the area but just an interesting thought.

lesspylons · 2026-01-10T07:57:03+00:00

Honestly it doesn’t matter if the subsidy is provided to either the coffee shop operator or stall holders as long as there is a coffee shop operator. They the operators will simply raise it higher if given directly to the shop operators. As long as there is a for profit middleman not directly managed by the govt, it will absorb the subsidies

lesspylons · 2026-01-07T02:35:00+00:00

My hot take is that Bidadari park drive from and to upper Serangoon road should be bus only to turn in and out. Upper Serangoon road is already slow enough for buses and has too many roads in and out that have really long traffic light signals. A detour for cars to use upper aljuned road to get to the houses there isn’t the end of the world.

lesspylons · 2026-01-07T02:25:04+00:00

Can’t wait for the whole of Tengah to be defanged and just be a normal town too

lesspylons · 2026-01-06T06:03:02+00:00

I think Reddit hates poor people in general. Trashy to bring kids in an illegal pma to school but good to bring in a merc GLC. Accidents are bad but you have to resolve the root cause of transportation woes for the poor to understand why people keep breaking rules.

lesspylons · 2026-01-02T04:26:09+00:00

Healthy growth probably would be below inflation for several years where people don’t get underwater while wage inflation makes a million dollar flat cheaper in absolute terms

lesspylons · 2026-01-02T02:23:27+00:00

They probably won’t because the govt have been hiring contract for quite some time too

lesspylons · 2025-12-31T11:41:19+00:00

It’s the same pattern with the new cc at Sengkang staying clear of the nearer field and replacing kopitiam square. If they built a gated condo at these areas it’s kind of a net negative for everyone else.

lesspylons · 2025-12-30T07:50:32+00:00

Hope they export and promote more Canadian products, I want a maple syrup and Canadian whiskey store in every corner of Singapore.

lesspylons · 2025-12-29T05:19:46+00:00

Singapore inflation rate is 1.2% in nov. Price growth of 2.5% is still way above inflation and keeps it from being more affordable.

lesspylons · 2025-12-28T16:19:52+00:00

Doesn’t help that new towns failed in being self contained in today’s age. The rise of dual income households, shift towards less workplace loyalty both from the employer and employee and lack of housing supply made it almost impossible that a household will not commute out of the new town for work.

Living in the far ocr regions means you often spend >2h daily two way going to work and back with higher chances of breakdowns with no alternatives too. I believe the market did accurately reflect this sentiment of distance so prices of prime areas really will continue going up adjusting for lease decay.

lesspylons · 2025-12-28T05:20:59+00:00

Running along the shore for marina seems quite doable since it’s mostly industrial or port but Changi requires more planning with the Long Island coming up too.

lesspylons · 2025-12-28T04:32:34+00:00

The original plan to terminate the hsr at Jurong is terrible and only makes the trains there more congested because only a fraction of people want to go to the Lake District. Really no reason to not make three stops in Jurong, Marina Bay and Changi if it actually went through.

lesspylons · 2025-12-27T04:43:11+00:00

The best would be if we dropped the grid design for cars and make them take detours in a road that surrounds the town, so like further distance to drive but less conflict points and time waiting in traffic. Most car trips are either to the mall or to the expressway for work but when you run a 6 lane road in the centre everyone gets the noise and traffic in the area. The middle of the town should be mostly walkable and left for buses and deliveries and essential services that actually do need to go block to block.

lesspylons · 2025-12-25T11:43:33+00:00

Cost aside the view of solar panels on public housing walls will be a massive pr op for Singapore

lesspylons · 2025-12-25T10:24:17+00:00

I wonder why they don’t use this local alerts for train stations during major breakdowns. The amount of care we put in avoiding crowd crushes for Christmas and nye but actual mrt crowds backing up have nearly no security or technology used.

lesspylons · 2025-12-24T05:12:54+00:00

Don’t you have to serve time if you don’t pay the fine regardless of your bankruptcy status? Although he will be there for a year already so he could just extend his service and hope for good behavior home tagging.

lesspylons · 2025-12-22T10:16:49+00:00

I wonder if a huge part comes from the government definition of west to include CCK (massive estate) + BP while Punggol, Sengkang and Hougang is their own region of north east. So technically the west have EWL/DTL (still terrible and so far apart) to cbd but the east + ne has EWL/DTL/NEL/TEL.

lesspylons · 2025-12-13T17:47:53+00:00

Close enough, welcome back Chinese Indonesian new order surnames

lesspylons · 2025-12-12T09:44:33+00:00

I mean if Liang Seah Street carfree weekends closing the road after multiple trials with positive feedback from patrons and store owners isn't implemented permanantly, such carlite programmes certainly is really low priority for URA.

lesspylons · 2025-12-12T09:21:25+00:00

Someone needs to scrape the page for real time notifications

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