http://news.omy.sg/News/Local-News/Q...i-2Tian-225217
本地出现新贫族,有房有地没现金,有七旬老翁为守住160万元的祖屋,2片面包当早午餐,2元菜饭吃两天。
已退休的陈老先生(70岁)的父亲,60年代买下位于如切集选区一带的排屋,当时花了8万多元,现在价值约160万元。
陈老先生在30多年前与妻子分居,父亲过世后,和老母相依为命。
他受访时说,原本在建筑公司任职时,生活还过得去,可是为了照顾生病的老母,15年前退休,两人靠积蓄过活。5年前,他拿出3万元给出国留学的儿子当学费及生活费,自己就剩下两三千元。
母亲在三四年前过世,日子过得十分清苦,只靠着儿子每月约500元的生活费过活。
From Google translate :
Local appear "new poor family," there is room to no cash, there are seventy man to hold 1.6 million yuan of "ancestral home", 2 slices of bread when the "brunch", 2 yuan dish eat for two days.
Retired Mr Chen (70 years old) father, bought the 1960s is located along Joo Chiat GRC townhouses, then spent more than 80,000 yuan, now worth about $ 1.6 million.
Mr Chen and his wife separated 30 years ago, after his father died, and the mother had each other.
He said in an interview, had worked at the construction company, life is also decent, but in order to care for a sick mother, retired 15 years ago, they rely on their savings to live. Five years ago, he took 30,000 yuan to study abroad tuition and living expenses when his son, himself remaining two or three thousand dollars.
Mother died four years ago, life is very hard, relying only living son of about 500 per month to live.