I recently drove through Lim Chu Kang and noticed some very bad 'slums'.
Does anybody have any idea what these buildings are?

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6614/screenhunter01dec151655.gif

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I recently drove through Lim Chu Kang and noticed some very bad 'slums'.
Does anybody have any idea what these buildings are?

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/6614/screenhunter01dec151655.gif

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Nah, they are probably those farmers in Lim Chu Kang. It can be slums as they are near the road. The govt would make sure that anything near the road is govt property or private property. They own the land so they build whatever they want. Went through that area alot during NS days. Parts of Singapore you don't get to see.:)

Thanks, what do you mea. By NS days? So there cannot be slums near the road? Definetly I dont want to see more lin chu kang. Horrible place!

Thanks, what do you mea. By NS days? So there cannot be slums near the road? Definetly I dont want to see more lin chu kang. Horrible place!

Sorry, are you Singaporean? If u aren't, well, that area of Singapore is known as the live-firing area of Singapore. So, things tend to be not developed there. The only thing developed there are for military purposes or by farmers. NS means National Service, a compulsory military training for male Singaporeans for 2 years. For my training as an NCO/Specialists?Sergeant, I go through that area a lot. Besides, I like the place, the air there is fresher than the air in the city. It makes us appreciate nature better:) Besides, those guys who have those "slum" have to be rich as landed property in Singapore ain't cheap.

You may want to read more stuff about Lim Chu Kang in this thread, and on the contrary, there are some lovely pics in it. I'll merge the threads later.

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=309344

The Lim Chu Kang area is also home to rustic farmstays and the Sungei Buloh Wetlands Reserve.

http://www.sbwr.org.sg/

http://www.sbwr.org.sg/images/headers/home01.jpg

Well, I wouldn't force 'happiness' upon people. I have no problems imagining some would prefer to live in that house (its not yet a real slum, it reminds me of Pulau Ubin houses more than a shantytown) than in crowded and noisy HDB areas. Kampong Lorong Buangkok is a great example. Households there look very spartan but you can see lots of nice cars around, which means well off people choose to live there. I guess its a matter of taste.

From more general point of view, its good to still have non-urbanised and non-developed areas. Otherwise Singapore (or any place in that case) would look far too generic and this "keep discovering the place" factor would die. ;)

Thanks for the answers! And yeah, Im not singaporean, Im Finnish.

Welcome to Singapore, Skyscraperer. Hope you have a good time here :)

Yup, Im having a great time on Singapore!

In any case I won't consider kampongs and rural living slums. It's how we had been living for the past few hundreds or thousands of years before the colonisation era by the European empires.

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The natives of Singapore. Majority of Singaporeans are of migrant stock settling here once the colonial port was established.

Isn't it great that we still have "slums" in Singapore..
Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.
Anyway, don't look like a slum at all.. More like a kampong style living..
A country-side type.. which is hard to find in Singapore

In any case I won't consider kampongs and rural living slums. It's how we had been living for the past few hundreds or thousands of years before the colonisation era by the European empires.

The indigenous people of Singapore were probably the Orang Laut who lived on sampans near the mangrove forests around the coast. And they have gone extinct long ago. Physically, they should resemble the Orang Asli from the tropical rain forests in Peninsular Malaysia.

The indigenous people of Singapore were probably the Orang Laut who lived on sampans near the mangrove forests around the coast. And they have gone extinct long ago. Physically, they should resemble the Orang Asli from the tropical rain forests in Peninsular Malaysia.

I thought Malays are Orang Laut/Asli

I thought Malays are Orang Laut/Asli

Not all of them. Some of us Malays are descended from Malaysians and certain Indonesian islands.

This pictures are from Google O.o
Are you sure those are yours?
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I never said there mine

lol what the hell is it? :?
Weird O.o
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