There was an article that says Brunei government housing schemes will no longer be offering individual homes but high-rise apartments similar to those in Singapore in the near future.
We attended a conceptual show unit of these future high-rise apartments and was quite impressed with the design. It was the size that not many Bruneians will be too thrilled about – since we are so used to spacious landed properties and we are not talking about houses the size of park models either.
One comment on this that I remembered well was why the need for high-rise housing when we have acres of undeveloped land. In fact, this was the exact question a friend asked me years ago when told how hard it is to buy or build houses here.
I have no conclusive answer to this except that despite the scarcity of (affordable) houses, we appreciate being in a country with so much greens around.
I will definitely not be happy living in a highly developed city with no trees in sight and I would not want my children and their children to grow up in a land where it’s concrete for as far as the eyes could see.
So if they need to live in high-rise apartments in the future but are guaranteed views of green lush hills nearby, I am all for it.
