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Originally Posted by nono1973
Hehehe...pesta is dowry,and dowry cost around S$5k,which is about 50 juta. I believe as you type this,the bro whom PM-ed me should be reading it. I think he might have got a rude shock with the around S$16k marriage expenses and the hurrying part of the parents to try to marry their daughter off to him.  |
Pesta is not dowry, bro. Maybe I was a bit unclear (i can get a bit long winded sometimes. Hahah) pesta is the wedding banquet, which cost sgd5k but is optional. Dowry is sgd500. Yes. Idr5m which is sgd500. That was what my previous batam gonna-be-gf-but-didnt-happen told me. Unless I remember wrongly. Cause I remembered I laugh when I heard this and compared to sg.
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Originally Posted by nono1973
The Indo city the bro will be (or likely be) marrying the girl isnt in Batam tho. Not so sure about buying property and having a notary against the girl selling it off but well,i was looking at apartments in Batam.... (out of topic,hehehe...)
https://samleong.shop/showpost.php?p=17...ostcount=11191
...selling at about S$40k plus minus. (landed property actually isnt that expensive but i think it isnt eligible for foreigners),installment for a studio apartment is around S$680 a month (foreigner eligible). Not so expensive afterall for most Sillyporean tho,hehehe...thank you for sharing the good info.
*Actually i have seen in real life Indo girls selling away the house the guy bought and ran away with the money (written in the old Batam thread,where it happens in my ex work place's building cleaner). |
I think when they get married, I doubt he would want to travel back and forth to the girl's village, so it would be easier to convince the girl's parents to let the girl move to batam and buy a house there.
I was looking for property there too. But for foreigners, you can only buy properties that are sgd75k and above (Not inclusive of luxury tax etc). And the upcoming properties coming up which offers foreigners financing for studio apartments, the financing period is only 5 years max if I recall correctly. So either u have to fork out a big first instalment, or you have to pay generally about sgd2-3k per month.
Very huge difference from local buying properties