Explore
Gaia Soulmates
 Advertising keeps Gaia free! Interested in sponsoring us?

HDB Flats in Singapore: Pigeon-holes or Bee-hives?

Posted on Feb 6th, 2008 by Alex Chua : Clarity Coach Alex Chua
HDB Flats: Pigeon-holes or Bee-hives? : 86 per cent of Singaporeans live in public housing flats built by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). These blocks of flats used to be known informally as small "pigeon-holes". Nowadays, prices have risen while the "pigeon-holes" have shrunken into tiny "bee-hives"...

86 per cent of Singaporeans live in public housing flats built by the Housing and Development Board (HDB). These blocks of flats used to be known informally as small "pigeon-holes". Nowadays, prices have risen while the "pigeon-holes" have shrunken into tiny "bee-hives"...
Access_public Access: Public 2 Comments Print views (282)  
Tagged with: Singapore Stomp
Mark : Visionary
about 8 hours later
Mark said

Thanks for the picture.  Do people rent these “pigeon holes” or buy them?  When were were in Singapore 2 years ago ( 1 night stop over on our way to India ) there were new high rises going up all over the place.   We stayed somewhere downtown along the river.  Singapore is very clean and I noticed quite a bit of green mixed in with all the buildings.

Alex Chua : Clarity Coach
2 days later
Alex Chua said

We have a choice to rent or buy… but we never really own them…

Your observations are very true, Mark. High rise buildings sprout like mushrooms here… especially now that the integrated resorts (high class gambling dens) are coming up ;-)

& yes this is a clean, green & exciting place to be living in :-)

You have to be a Gaia member to post comments.
Login or Join now!