Traffic jams are a norm for every travelling individual Malaysian. Jams on roads, human traffic in trains and on buses, what else isn’t there?
I travel to work by car…We car pool simply because if I were to opt for public transportation, I will have to take a bus to an LRT station, then take the train to another station and from there a bus to the place of work…hence I car pool.. As we travel to work we always wonder where on earth do Malaysians get their cash.
Undeniably we are facing inflation as the cost of living increases almost without fail. Cars have a price tag with tax of about 300 percent yet you see only one person in these Beemers or Hondas and Toyotas and there are more cars on the roads than ever before..which boils down to the initial question..Where do they get their cash??
I recently saw a politically inclined video that spoke of these taxes and the high costs involved in purchasing a property. It mentioned that an average Malaysian usually has high debts with little to no savings at all.
To top it all one only becomes the rightful owner of the property after a minimum of at least 15 years or so for houses and at least 8 years for cars. That video spoke of how Americans and Australians can own a house within 3 and 6 years respectively. Us? Well by the end of our working life, we can actually call our home ‘our home’ for real.
So back to the jams...is there ever going to be a solution to this? Even weekends on the roads are just as crazy and what more at 12am or 1am..Do people sleep anymore? And why aren’t they staying at home no more?? Gone are the days where Sundays were family-at-home days (more like family-all-out days) We seriously need a solution to this daily chaos
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