{"id":4309,"date":"2012-05-13T18:44:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T10:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4309"},"modified":"2012-05-14T22:28:35","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T14:28:35","slug":"pre-post-comments-on-studio-flats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4309","title":{"rendered":"Retirement living: Looking to studio apartments for seniors for inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Today i visited a block of studio apartments for seniors near Toa Payoh Central and was glad to see how PLEASANT the environment is. The common areas are SPACIOUS and CLEAN. The common corridors outside the individual units are WIDE and UNCLUTTERED. The units are small bed-sitters, bright with windows on one wall. In the bathroom is an emergency alert cord.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The two lifts are BIG and stop at EVERY floor. On the third level are two cozy GARDENS.&nbsp; Seats are PLENTIFUL and INVITING!<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nearby are other blocks of flats, shops, a hawker centre, a market&#8230;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><font color=\"#cc0000\"><strong>Could HDB adapt this concept of studio apartment living for seniors with smaller nest-eggs to cater to seniors with bigger nest-eggs by building bigger studio apartments and providing more facilities? But however HDB modifies\/adapts, it must keep to the 30-year lease and the non- marketability of the studio apartments for the &#8216;richer&#8217; seniors. These two conditions will keep out the sharks and the profit-driven entrepreneurs.<\/strong><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>N.B. Comments no. 1 -5&nbsp; are pre-post comments.<br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today i visited a block of studio apartments for seniors near Toa Payoh Central and was glad to see how PLEASANT the environment is. The common areas are SPACIOUS and CLEAN. The common corridors outside the individual units are WIDE and UNCLUTTERED. The units are small bed-sitters, bright with windows on one wall. In the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/?p=4309\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Retirement living: Looking to studio apartments for seniors for inspiration&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":760,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-29"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/760"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silverhairsclub.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}