This is a master index page …
- U.S.学区房 ≈ SG condo — https://tanbinvest.dreamhosters.com/2017/06/23/u-s-sd-home-sg-condo/
- Reality shock: perhaps at my age and with our combined income we simply can’t afford 700k + pTax.
- Grandpa reassured me repeatedly that regular school is good enough for my kids. We aren’t an affluent family.
- A real alternative — rent in a good school district long term.
- alternative — private high school]low-cost area like Bayonne
- long commute — I’m unable to tolerate long commute (esp. bus), as my “peers” could. I feel weak, inflexible. I feel the pressure to “conform” and sacrifice.
- Those peers don’t have multiple properties in Asia!
- Those peers don’t have an alternative cheaper education system back home
- Actually …. not 100% of my peers bought a nice big home in a top school district — https://tanbinvest.dreamhosters.com/2017/07/14/shades-of-grey-peers-owning-sd/
- Deepak’s points — https://tanbinvest.dreamhosters.com/2017/06/23/deepakschool-district-yourself-peer-pressure-is-the-issue/
- Deepak’s point #2 Some bought school district homes because it was easy, not because it was important to them — https://tanbinvest.dreamhosters.com/2017/07/14/some-bought-sd-not-cos-important/
- https://tanbinvest.dreamhosters.com/2017/07/14/cheaper-options-in-good-sd/
- various costs of owning a $700k home
- we always have the option to go back to SG, at a certain cost.
- justification for not buying top school district as peers did