colonial houses at temenggong road

while looking for an alternative route to get to mount faber, we stumbled upon these 2-storey black and white bungalows located along temenggong road, a dead-end road with hardly any vehicular or human traffic.

a few days after i blogged about these colonial houses in singapore, i came across a report about their being in great demand.


"But now that the bulldozers have rolled in to turn the area into Singapore's key aerospace hub, monthly rentals for the colonial houses sitting on streets with quaintly English names have shot through the roof." (from the straits times dated 21 may)

i am not surprised. many of the tenants have been ensconced in these houses, some with a sprawling compound, since the day they got posted to singapore. the rents for these houses are not exorbitant; in fact, i thought they were subsized. the cost of renting such houses ranges from a couple of thousand to 20k a month. anyway, many of those working for multi-national corporations have their rent paid for by their companies.

the houses in the alexandra area, a number of which have their own swimming pools and one even has a large tree house in its compound, have such pleasant surroundings. i feel that this is a haven for the expatriates - countryside living, away from the maddening crowd, and yet only a few minutes drive to their working place. these people really know how to live the good life.

i know of some locals who have opted to live in such rented houses but most of them are in the seletar area, and not in some secluded places like royal road, humes heights or temenggong road.