Air conditioning is essential in Singapore, IMHO. As we were meeting with our relocation company they were talking about how we will be responsible to have the "Air Con" serviced then she asked how often we think we would run it. I had to laugh to myself as I said "we will run it 24/7" she replied "oh no, we do not use it that much over here, you only turn it on when you sleep in the bedrooms" WHAT?? Well as we learned more about the air con in Singapore we discovered that every room in the house has it's own air con with individual control, so you can turn the temp up in the bed rooms and still have the main living area be cool. OK, that made more sense to me but seriously a lot of Singaporeans although they have air con they do not use it, even in the hotel, the "lift lobby" aka elevator had air conditioning but the hallways did not so it is common to go from a warm area to a cooler area. I read a blog that talked about making sure there was an air con unit in your kitchen before making an offer on the apartment. Our kitchen will have air con and trust me it will be on!
So why not central air? Well it has to do with saving energy and utility costs. I mentioned before that each bedroom had its own complete bathroom. We found out that each bathroom has it's own individual hot water heater before you get excited about that, the master bath has a whopping 12 gallons and the other bed rooms have a 6 gallon tank. In addition you have to turn on the hot water switch before you want to shower, like 20 minutes before you want to shower. The tub in the master bedroom will not be able to fill up with one tank of water but really I am thinking a nice cool bath will be refreshing.
They do much to conserve energy, each outlet also has its own on/off switch, just about every morning we were there I would plug in my curling iron to come back and find it cold because I forgot to turn the outlet on.
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