Originally Posted by
Adam Goi
Hi PF, to answer your queries, I just share my story briefly.
I will be moving out probably by the end of the year as I'll be settling down. Though I'm very used to the location and even thought of moving to a unit in the 'less glamorous Lorongs', I have been receiving reports from public as well as friends that they are either seeing more prostitutes appearing outside their properties or their neighbouring units are used to house them and start to operate as brothels! These reports are coming from the 'less glamorous Lorongs'! As such I've decided, given what I've seen and heard over the years, that if I plan to raise a family and do not want the females to be harrassed or seen as 'another piece of meat', I should even consider getting a unit within Geylang.
As for renting it out, unless they are single males who do not mind the lack of security here, you can't really find ready tenants, unless they are foreign workers or vice operators. In fact, we are experiencing this problem now, given the inconsiderate, selfish decisions by our ex and some current neighbours who chose to rent to vice operators as they are the ones who are keen to operate their business from there.
For me, I have to be vigilant at all times, given the vice operators know that I blew the whistle and constantly posting their videos and pictures so as to pressure the authorities to take action.
We don't look forward to weekends and holidays as the street is swarmed with prostitutes and worse still, the hordes of noisy strangers.
As night falls, we dare not even step out, thus we always ensure we padlock my gates, install a CCTV and that we have enough food in the house. We usually pray hard that our property and our parked car are not vandalised by them.
In short, the vice situation here remains bad and I personally don't have much confidence in the authorities that they can improve or even change things. It seems like over here, it's an exception; rule of the law is non-existent.
I'm still fighting for a safer neighbourhood given my elderly mom couldn't bear to leave as it's her nest, a keepsake left to her by my late father. As for me, since I do not have to run the risk of having strangers and prostitutes loitering outside my place and even ending up living next to me, I have reluctantly decided to move away from geylang area.
As said these are just my views, as a resident who have been living here my whole life, taking on the authorities (which is always a dangerous thing) as well as the vice operators for years.
It is really up to you.