Do you need a car in Singapore?
May 25th 2012, 9:49 am
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Re: Do you need a car in Singapore?
We haven't bothered with a car and we have a 6 month old baby. We chose to live within walking distance of a very central MRT (Orchard MRT - and managed to find an affordable clean condo - which was an amazing result), and whilst we're at the junction of two main bus routes, we usually survive with the MRT and an occassional taxi. The main supermarkets deliver and we have a little shop onsite for day to day stuff like milk. It is easy to survive without a car as the MRT system here is so good and Singapore is smaller than Anglesey! I don't miss driving and especially not with the SG way of driving - have witnessed one fatal crash in SG and husband has been in another much smaller one. Good luck!
Not the Ferrari incident is it? All my Singaporean colleagues hate bloody foreigner now.
Jun 1st 2012, 3:19 am
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Re: Do you need a car in Singapore?
Sadly we don't live near the MRT. If you don't need to travel in the rush hour with your little one then its ok. Do not travel in rush hour with your 6 months old. It will give you panic attack.
Not the Ferrari incident is it? All my Singaporean colleagues hate bloody foreigner now.
Not the Ferrari incident is it? All my Singaporean colleagues hate bloody foreigner now.
No, it wasn't the Ferrari incident we witnessed. The one we saw was in Autumn 2011. The one my husband was in involved a taxi, but it wasn't the taxi drivers fault - unsurprisingly, it was someone trying to change lanes at a junction!
Jul 8th 2012, 4:21 am
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Re: Do you need a car in Singapore?
We didn't have a car and we found that quite liberating.
A lot of my friends still there think the same, but I do know most with children have ended up giving in and getting one. With small children requiring car seats, it's the safety aspect; with older children it seems to be the "getting them all to different activities in different locations" issue.
A lot of my friends still there think the same, but I do know most with children have ended up giving in and getting one. With small children requiring car seats, it's the safety aspect; with older children it seems to be the "getting them all to different activities in different locations" issue.
