Originally Posted by
ethan80
agreed. with rocketing prices here, a really good long term solution for the govt is to improve connectivity with JB and spill over. definitely this will help ease the prices and give people more optimism.
but it is difficult with the country's troubled politics, poor governance and corruption. the result is the high crime rate and dampened investor confidence. while improved relations between sg and msia have helped stir up some investment, still its a long way to go. but sg and jb are just too physically close to not affect each other.
while still many people are scared of going to jb, not to mention buying property, what if there was good connectivity (eg MRT), low crime and high investor confidence? i'd imagine a huge portion of the low and middle income, especially with families, will move there.