I am currently living in a rental flat, with my family of five. I’ve heard and read reports that Ministers said it is not difficult to own your own house. What would they know? They have never been in my situation before. I was comfortably in a job that pays me $2,000 a month, enough to tide by and support my family. If we had saved and followed the financial plan we as a family had, we would be able to own our own house, one day not too far away.
But that was provided I still have my job, Unfortunately, my company deemed me too expensive. They released me when my contract ended, and in my position, they appointed a foreign worker, who they pay much less than if they had to pay me. The company saved on money, while I lost my job. Is it fair? Is the foreign worker that took over my position more highly skilled than me? Or he has a job just because he comes cheap? He does not have to own a house in Singapore. He does not have to provide shelter for his family in Singapore. This cheap foreign labour will be a rich man when he returns to his family in the country he came from.
While me and my family of five still have to live in a rental flat, where we cannot call it our very own home. We are just numbers to the government. I work hard, but i cannot help myself if cheaper foreign labour is preferred over a Malay Singpaorean male with a family of five to feed and house. Maybe that is my fate in life. I will forever be one of the growing number of Malay families living in rental flats.
Reader Contribution (Yan Yonex)
