Hi Guys...
Firstly Anjin san is a Japanese term. Are we out of the area here.?? Never mind.
Flat prices have come wayyyyyyy down, and the area referred to earlier, which is Bayshore Park and Bayshore is perfectly adequate and not at all scruffy In fact, Pools )Several) Squash, Tennis, Gym, Supermarket, restaurant etc seems OK to me. As far as transport is concerned..... If you want to buy a car, as I did, you pay big biccies, BUT you sell it on the same market, otherwise, Busses (Right outisde Bayshore) are adequate as is the MRT system. Taxis good and cheap too.
You are not in Singapore too much anyway.
Also, why eat in. Hawker stalls and Beer and Food Gardens, good, noursidhing and cheap, and pleantly of them too, with lots of european stuuf as well.
Apart from the thought Police (never a problem when I lived there except to piss you off somewhat) the City is clean, crime free, and a good place to live. Cost of living, quite high, especially if you are a wine and beer drinker, but since I came back to the UK I found that it wasn't so bad after all.
You can always let someone else talk you out of taking a job, but take and ID90 and get down there with your wife for a week and find out......it aint so bad.
Go for it.