All About Home Addresses

[cikgoo]

hi all


i own the property my parents lived in now. i pay all the bills since they are not working and my IC has this address.
after marriage, my wife did not like living with in laws so we bought another place. i kept my IC address the same since we still go there most weekdays for dinner and i get my mails.

now with a kid, i’m thinking i could register him at a school within 1km of my parents place which i own yet i’m not really living there.

this becomes a dilemma since wife does not want to move back there and i know its not right to use that address to register although i owned it for 8yrs and my IC has not changed.

so the system is flawed for people like me. my current place is 1.5km from the school and less than 1km from my parents.

[tankee]

cikgoo:

hi all


i own the property my parents lived in now. i pay all the bills since they are not working and my IC has this address.
after marriage, my wife did not like living with in laws so we bought another place. i kept my IC address the same since we still go there most weekdays for dinner and i get my mails.

now with a kid, i'm thinking i could register him at a school within 1km of my parents place which i own yet i'm not really living there.

this becomes a dilemma since wife does not want to move back there and i know its not right to use that address to register although i owned it for 8yrs and my IC has not changed.

so the system is flawed for people like me. my current place is 1.5km from the school and less than 1km from my parents.

not flawed, just that you had broken the law for not updating the address on your NRIC, which you can be fined & jailed.

[cikgoo]

why broken the law?

i spent equal times in both homes and own both of them.

in fact i spend more time in a day at the office, so should my office address be on my NRIC?

[RRMummy]

cikgoo:

why broken the law?

i spent equal times in both homes and own both of them.

in fact i spend more time in a day at the office, so should my office address be on my NRIC?

changing to the office address is really stretching it, cikgoo... as you say yourself that's your office not your home.

anyway, in your own post you already referred to the place as your parents...

besides, one may own alot of homes (if super rich) and rent them all out but can't claim that all of those which he/she does not stay in is his/her Home address. Your house not equals to your home..

cikgoo:

hi all

i own the property my parents lived in now. i pay all the bills since they are not working and my IC has this address.
after marriage, my wife did not like living with in laws so we bought another place. i kept my IC address the same since we still go there most weekdays for dinner and i get my mails.

now with a kid, i'm thinking i could register him at a school within 1km of my parents place which i own yet i'm not really living there.

this becomes a dilemma since wife does not want to move back there and i know its not right to use that address to register although i owned it for 8yrs and my IC has not changed.

so the system is flawed for people like me. my current place is 1.5km from the school and less than 1km from my parents.

[qms]

Hi cikgoo!


Perhaps we should re-read what you posted.

cikgoo:

i own the property my parents lived in now. i pay all the bills since they are not working and my IC has this address.
after marriage, my wife did not like living with in laws so we bought another place. i kept my IC address the same since we still go there most weekdays for dinner and i get my mails.

now with a kid, i'm thinking i could register him at a school within 1km of my parents place which i own yet i'm not really living there.

this becomes a dilemma since wife does not want to move back there and i know its not right to use that address to register although i owned it for 8yrs and my IC has not changed.

so the system is flawed for people like me. my current place is 1.5km from the school and less than 1km from my parents.

It is a loophole. However, what tankee was saying was that you had broken the law by not updating your NRIC to reflect the address that you lived in. You don't live in your office, do you?

[cikgoo]

well, we can always argue the meaning of "live in".

Is that where u sleep?

how many of you update your NRIC when you had to study overseas?
how many of you update your NRIC when you lived in halls of residences in university?

[RRMummy]

cikgoo:

well, we can always argue the meaning of \"live in\".

Is that where u sleep?

how many of you update your NRIC when you had to study overseas?
how many of you update your NRIC when you lived in halls of residences in university?

When you are overseas, you are overseas and your address where you live would be reflected not in your NRIC but in your Student pass / Green Card or whatever..anyway..

Cikgoo, your very first post shows clearly that you know the rules very well and you are trying to convince yourself and probably trying to get someone here to second your notion to use your \"parents address\".

We cannot stand in your way should you really decide to do so. But there has been many posts debating this and also real life cases of how those who choose to flaunt the rule suffered. The consequences are actually much more damaging for the kids who will be transferred out of the schools. The parent will also be shamed in the papers.

So we ask ourselves, is it really worth putting our kids thru all this? :roll:

Mind you, kids being kids. The SECRECT may be out anytime, anywhere.. and we can't tell our kids to lie abt their address, right... :idea:

So again the decision lies in your own hands..

[cikgoo]

yes i know the rules and am not asking for loopholes…

just felt that the system doesnt work in my favour…

the only thing to do now is convince my wife to move back to the old place…
either way, we are sacrificing for our kids…

[RRMummy]

cikgoo:

yes i know the rules and am not asking for loopholes....

just felt that the system doesnt work in my favour...

the only thing to do now is convince my wife to move back to the old place.....
either way, we are sacrificing for our kids...

can can.. if you really can't convince your wife then...

1. Buy one more home <1km fm the school
2. Swop home with your parents :oops:

:idea:

Good luck! :celebrate:

[poopree]

I am living(renting) in 1 house less than 1 km from pei hwa and also just bought another house less than 1 km to rgps. the new house will TOP only in 2012. Can I use either address in different phases for my dd registration next year? depending on which school we get we can either continue renting or move to the new house. Wasnt sure if the rule is clear on this one? please help