Astro Dishes Reveal Low-Cost House Owners' Financial Health

Satellite Dishes - Once Luxury, Now Necessity!

Someone once told me that if you want to gauge the financial health of the residents in an area, look at the cars parked around the area.

I think nowadays you only need to just count the number of Astro dishes hanging outside the balconies. Go to any flats, the so-called low-cost housing area and look at their balconies. Count how many satellite dishes are there, pointing skywards to the Astro satellite beaming down your favouritr programmes.

Let's do some simple maths - it costs no less than RM90 a month to subscribe to Astro. Add that to the mobile phone bills, water bills, and electricity, and you will have to have at least RM300 set aside every month just to cope. What about food, children's education, schooling expenses, and so on, you will have an idea of how much these people are earning.

So, if you were told that people living in low-cost flats are poor, just don't you believe it. For instance, take a walk around Section One, Wangsa Maju. This used to be a poor man's abode. Not anymore, not by any chance as you can see in the above snapshots. Just count the number of Astro dishes!

Are you wondering why they are still putting up with the low-cost
housing resident image? Me, too!