[EvertonDiehard]

For Msia landed if you renovate too nice along that stretch of houses yours will stick out like a sore thumb and easy target for robbers. If you are a robber along that stretch how to decide which to enter?That is why some Msian old folks come Spore look for relatives or children cannot find easily as most HDB flat from outside looks the same.

After working for a decade in S'pore, my maid's concrete house stands out like a sore thumb in her kampong of wooden homes in Indonesia. However, it has never been burgled. The exterior of a house may be kept modest in Malaysia, but the buyers may renovate the interior to their liking. My cousin and his wife retired early after working for decades in S'pore, and returned to Ipoh where they were originally from. They renovated their old house and have been living there in bliss with 2 cars for the past 3 years.