I am intrigued by the bathrooms in Singapore. Yesterday we were at the mall and I was standing in line in the ladies room when suddenly I noticed that there was a picture on the door of the stall. "That's unusual" I thought to myself until upon further examination I realized that not all the pictures on all the stall doors were the same. Asian toilets or squatty pots as they are known are really just a hole in the ground surrounded by porcelain and hooked up to water for a cleaning flush. This ladies room in the mall had both the squatty pots and the normal western toilets, the pictures on the stall doors were either a person squatting or a person sitting. Ok so I am next in line and the stall that opens is a person squatting stall so I turned to the lady behind me and told her she could go ahead of me from the look on her face as she turned around when she entered the stall, she had not noticed the pictures on the doors. Lucky for me the next stall was a "normal" stall.
Today we looked at 5 different kinds of living options for our family when we move to Singapore, one of which we liked so it is an option. Here is the crazy thing, EVERY bedroom has a full bathroom sometimes two bedrooms would share a bathroom but usually every single bed room had a bathroom plus there is a powder room off the kitchen and what they called the "common" bathroom. So the 4 bed room places we were looking at today had SIX bathrooms!! We were told this is how they do it over here, each bed room has a bathroom otherwise it is not listed as a bed room.
Another weird thing is the listing of the square footage, they basically take the perimeter of the apartment and that is the square footage so all the closet space bathroom space, hall ways etc... are in that square footage listing and some even include the balcony in the square footage listing, so it is really hard to tell from a description just how big the place really is.
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