What if you die-die want to swim during the Circuit Breaker period?
You can do what Joseph Schooling did: swim at home if you have a bathtub.
Or you can do what this Crazy Rich Foreigner does: rent a private swimming pool for $10k a month.
Like, seriously.
Facilities in Condominium all Closed
Lest you’ve been stuck at home so long that you didn’t even know that air exists outside of your house, here’s a shocker: public gyms and swimming pools are closed.
Reader Bao: But swimming pool should be clean since you’re in chloride the entire time, right?
Right, but the whole idea of the Circuit Breaker is for you to stay home, so it doesn’t matter whether you swim in chloride or drink chloride in bars—they’re all closed.
Even swimming pools (and gyms) in condominiums are sealed off. In fact, if you think living in a condo means you’ve free from the rules, think again: you can’t even walk your dog or exercise within your condo premises because safe-distancing ambassadors can’t enforce safe-distancing rules on you.
So there’s no special privileges for you even if you’re rich.
Unless…you’re super rich.
Like, so rich that you’ve your own swimming pool in your own backyard.
Since the pool belongs to you, you can choose to leave it open.
And that’s when someone else who’s equally rich and loves to swim has an idea.
Man Rented a Swimming Pool in a Sentosa Bungalow for $30k to Swim During CB Period
According to EdgeProp, a foreigner living in a condo in Sentosa had just rented a swimming pool in a nearby bungalow.
You see, the owner of the bungalow is looking to rent out the entire bungalow at $30,000 per month.
Suffice to say, now’s not the time when people are out there looking for places to rent.
The tenant was then looking for an alternative house (unknown whether it’s temporary or permanent) because the condo facilities in his condo have all been closed.
The bungalow was a good fit for him as it had a private swimming pool and his two young children can exercise there. However, he didn’t want to pay $30,000 for the bungalow.
Well, of course I can’t use the word “afford” or “budget”. These words are taboo in Sentosa.
And so, the agent suggested renting just the swimming pool and the garden for $10,000 a month.
After two days, whereby viewing was done entirely via images even though the landlord and tenant lived near each other, the deal was done: it would be a lease of $30,000 for three months.
You’d have heard the word “unprecedented” often recently, but this is truly unprecedented.
Or maybe it’s not?
People Whose Bank Account Has Many Commas Are Switching from Condos to Bungalows Due to Circuit Breaker Measures
While we peasants are struggling to pay our bills, it seems like some people have other problems to solve.
According to the agent who brokered the deal, there have been “several enquiries” from people wanting to rent bungalows in Sentosa due to the closure of facilities in condos, because it seems like the only option to swim now.
And these people usually live in Orchard Road.
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However, these deals are still under negotiations as they can’t agree on a price.
What a first-world problem, indeed.