Allow me to share my experience in Cyberjaya. Please don't get mad at any point I shared here, they just my personal opinion, not true fact.
I stayed here for 15 months and moved to Dengkil. Everyone outside of Cyberjaya says I'm crazy to live so far but I really enjoy my life now.
Since I'm a local university student here, I could say I have quite amount of friends here. Only one of my friend likes here, who is working in Cyberjaya. His dad bought him a unit in the early days. Most of my friends live in KL, or run away quickly after graduation.
I'll start with good things first:
1. Wide fibre optic coverage: I love TIME fibre last time but for now, my landed room in dengkil have unifi 100Mbps too. so it's not something I miss now.
2. The waterflow was amazing: I'm not sure all condos have amazing water flow but bathing in one of those condo is very nice.
3. Trees are properly maintained, but also blocks vision when driving
4. IDK why the weather here seems colder than dengkil, puchong or sri kembangan. Perhaps the layout design allows wind to go through.
5. The road design are overkilled. Hardly jam here. This could be bad sign too since not enough people is here.
6. Tamarind looks promising and really changes my mind. I was so surprised for entire hour when my friend brings me there. Cyberjaya gives me a dead city stereotype but the shopping mall there is quite convenient and sell useful things.
7. Banks or government services are very civilized and provide good service.
Well, waterflow with heater is the only thing I miss very much lol.
Then I will talk about the bad side and why I left here..
1. overpriced / oversupplied units: people got too much hype about being the next sillicon valley. Our local technologies level and education is no where near enough to build a centralized technology center. Places like KL Central, PJ or puchong is more suitable to run IT business.
With the hype, too much units are built. The place I live last time got a building PAUSED until I left, it is still stuck at the floor i came in the first day. Investor groups discussing to sue them everyday in Facebook group.
If you look from outside and compare to condos in KL you can see most of the lights are off.
2. With (1), there are many empty units. I got a friend move from 13rd to 12nd floor and save rm300 every month. the price starting to slide. This is not main issue for me, but this is the sign of people going to bankcrupt. Thus, they got no money to pay maintenance fee and facilities get spoilt frequently or not maintained.
3. Also with (1), a lot of foreigner are attracted. [they] -> (those I've met in the area, I'm not saying all their people in their country is like that) are the worst. In my hometown, I live with indian,malay,arab,taiwanese,chinese, never had those issues. I believe this is due to the cultural difference. They talk really loud until 4am and i think hisap dadah, throw things around, yelling with football matches. Called police once with guns and 3 weeks after they still went noisy afterwards. this is the triggering point for me to leave.
If you look into the community you can see a lot of them making a lot of trouble. Reverse one way driving, crashed a malay lady to death (foreign students), crash and run, etc. I think few mentioned in this post. Locals in Cyberjaya are too civilized, won't make them rival and those news just disappears.
4. Still with (1), due to lack of people, developers trying to cheat people to invest with [just looking good facilities]. There are a promising looking malls but sells nothing inside. Then the agents will advertise how useful this mall is.
Also the building quality is low. Low paint quality, low iron door quality, low joins quality. The door in my unit got loud noise every 3 months, and the unit above me or under me will squeek loudly every 3minutes every midnight until 5am. I mean really loud like those big ancient door u see in movies.
5. No food. Sorry, I mean no proper food. People tell me got mcd starbucks dpulze face2face blah3, I don't consider them as proper food. This opinion is obviously biased. I used to eat those food everyday and feel nothing wrong with them, until I almost cry when I went dengkil/puchong/sri kembangan and tasted proper food. I mean any food, chinese, malay, indian food outside of cyberjaya will taste better. Due to experience rental here, most shops hire cheap foreigner to do things, instead of having the feeling of running own business and cook themselves.
6. This is what I read from reddit: People proposed grid layout for cyberjaya but they think its too boring. We have a lot of fancy parks in between and now hardly maintains them. Oxidized stuff is quite normal for malaysia, but exposed wires are a bit over. Cycling lane.. I'm glad they removed some of them. Imagine it is grid layout like the silicon valley in the US, tamarind square and dpulze could be 1-2 blocks away, and dpulze can be also 1-2 blocks away to shaftbury, really walkable. Today u hardly see people walking in Cyberjaya.
7. no LRT.. KLIA express is not meant for daily usage. Too expensive to go KL. MEX do have some distance but I'm quite ok with it, since Dengkil will use that too.
8. Too much traffic lights. the best day I had is all the traffic lights spoilt. went from tamarind to shaftbury in like 3 minutes.
I miss nothing here than that amazing waterflow with heater. Sometimes I went KL and put my friends back to their hostel/condo I'm so glad I moved away from here
Thanks for the honest opinion.
BTW don't mind to share which place u stay last time? And also which building like abandoned? I couldn't see any high-rise that stop work. So just curious which area.
For the food part, yes many still complain. But it's improving a lot since past few years. U can't imagine how it was 10 years back... Seriously those working here will drive out of cyberjaya daily for lunch last time... Now at least half of the time they can explore food around here.