Sifu Sifu,

Wanna ask, what is the common price of renting a whole unit with a room of 2?
Probably around Clementi, Tiong Bahru, Redhill, Commonwealth area.
Whats the fastest way to look for a whole unit.

Btw, some post i see in iBilik, it says "2+1", that means 2 rooms and 1 living room is it?

Thanks in advance to sifu-sifu's advise

you gotta ask deodorant. He is well verse in this area and have helped many people before.

Food
about $4-8 like what the other dude had mentioned. When you are free, walk around and you might bump into cheaper alternatives. E.g. some places offering $2.40 for 2 vege 2 meat kinda mixed rice.

Transport
- BUS - Raffles Place to JB - Go to Bugis mrt, walk to Queen Street and board bus CW2. It'll cost you $3.30 to JB CIQ and then to Larkin bus terminal. More info  here.

- BUS - Raffles Place to KL - Take mrt to Lavender or Nicol Highway, walk to Golden Mile Tower, buy bus ticket from Starmart to KL. It'll cost you $30 for weekend and $20 for weekdays. Alternatively you may book online here. Golden Mile to KL is about 6-7 hours.

- FLY - Try browsing TigerAir, Jetstar or Malindo's website and wait for promotion.

Room Rental
- There are 3 types of room. Small aka utility room(1pax), Common Room(2pax) and Master Room(3pax).
- A small room is about $450-500(without aircond). Some landlord might include utilities(electricity and water) in your room rental fee, some you have to pay separately.
- A common room ranged around $600-800.
- Masterroom is about $800-1xxx depending on what they are including.

Mobile phone.
- Mobile phone package ranged between $30-50 monthly for average user(data and calls).

Example of monthly breakdown,

$500 Room Rental, small room 1 pax.
$600 Food - $20 x 30 days.
$  50 Mobile Phone
$  50 Transport (Bus & MRT)

Singapore is a lot more competitive than KL is. If you can't make it in KL it's unlikely you will fare any better in SG. Anyways you can always PM your CV to our "BIG FOUR" daikor/daikarche's here and see if your profile is worth their time. Banking/Finance Fiona Chin, Oil & Gas MacKiddo, IT Lester1987, events scitzo.

Sifu Sifu,

Wanna ask, what is the common price of renting a whole unit with a room of 2?
Probably around Clementi, Tiong Bahru, Redhill, Commonwealth area.
Whats the fastest way to look for a whole unit.

Btw, some post i see in iBilik, it says "2+1", that means 2 rooms and 1 living room is it?



Thanks in advance to sifu-sifu's advise

$50 not enough for transport I think. Say $1.5 per way to work. One day already $3. 20 days $60 d. Some activities on random day/weekend, another $20 maybe around $80.

$600 for food depends I think. Currently I use about 600 for food + phone + transport + groceries per month. But my work place nearby normally just eat food court la. $3-6 per meal. No need $20 a day.

Haha... Just saying... I was using less than $450 a month on all those thing previously in the first half year when I just came to SG. Since then there's some adjustment in salary and so the increase in expenses haha
But I think he mean...

Work till die at KL still earn nothing have to ikat perut. Might as well work in SG till die at least still got savings.

I think so haha.

Seriously I'm glad that I chose to work in SG 1.5 years ago. That time, calculate working in KL still got like RM500 savings per month based on estimated salary. Now if work there... Maybe every month negative d. Have to really eat roti everyday.

Hi,

Anyone can advise if the job require you to own a car but they do not subsidy and oni pay according to milleage , $0.70 per km. Do you think worth it ?

Take into consideration that you pay for your own car insurance, road tax, hdb parking, wear and tear and maintenance.

The only Pros i can think of,

You are more flexible and can drive back to malaysia hometown anytime.

Not worth at all , to run a car in SG currently is 1k/Month adding up with with other expenses : Road Tax , Insurance , Parking , Fuel , wear and tear + 500 SGD .

so basically prepare 1,500 per month (min) to have a car in SG , you need to run about 3,000km / Month to break even, do you think you can travel 3000km for business in SG ? with the longest run is 50 km (changi to Tuas) .

1.5k per month is for new car ?

How bout 2nd hand car ? Would it worth the troubles ?

The interviewer told me average their employee claim 1000km, means $700 to $800 per month, i assumed.

Any possibility a 2nd hand car plus other ancillary cost can be cover ?

New or second hand not much diff .

unless your salary is high then I have nothing to say .

If you are new to SG you'll cry yourself out . eg Vios balance 2 year about 30k now , first you need to fork out 15k ( 45k MYR) , then monthly paying around 700 SGD (end of 2nd year you'll get back around 6k) ; of course some will just calculate 30/24 , but in SG to get a loan 50-50 rules kicks in .
sgcarmart.com -> check out the second hand car market here.

Suggest do Taxi claim is much better than this arrangement , it works around < 1k worth of claims and save you from liability of the car .

can always opt for car lease.
not sure who pays for the maintenance though...

So how much salary you think can afford a car ?

Wat is 30/24 ?

Yeah damn it, just check the sgcarmart, used car oso super exp, somemore all loan cover 50% oni

I cannot opt for taxi claim, becoz this new job required us to standby for emergency , need to react fast, so taxi might not be suitable
Thx for the idea, i check it out

No such things as fresh grad need to start in KL first. Just give it a try who knows you might get yourself a job.

5k at least , so you still could have some saving.

30k/24 months  = 1.25k / month

is there any hiring in sg?
im 19years old, male, malaysian, without WP, just finished STPM, currently waiting for the result, able to speak mandarin, simple english and malay, ready to be interviewed ASAP, preferred jobs in sengkang area.

Wao 5k is high

I checked the car rental too , monthly range from 1200 to 1500 for a normal sedan car 

Damn exp too

Looks like my oni option now is used car that within my budget 

So are you thinking having Malaysian car ... that could work if you stay in Johor .

to be honest if 4k barely make through and can be abit tight 1.5k for car , 1k rental +uti +phone , 800 for meals around 500 - 700 for savings or emergency.

IN such case might as well stay put in places like KL , Johor or Penang , with the same dollar dollar pay at least your car is yours forever and working in a less stress environment.

I got my malaysia car back in kl, the problem is i am pr aldy, not allowed to drive my car into sg

No lah ,surely my saving more than tat

Means you have been in SG quite some time d ... then you should have the maths behind your head d .