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Coping with high rents: Influencer leaves S’pore to rent semi-detached house in Johor for $1,610
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Ms Michelle Hon and her family in their new home, a semi-detached in Iskandar, Johor.
PHOTO: MICHELLE HON
SINGAPORE – Malaysian Michelle Hon did not expect to relocate at the height of her career, with her Australian husband and their three children – aged seven, nine and 11 – in tow, but this was precisely what the entrepreneur did at the end of 2022.
The 42-year-old influencer and founder of Singapore-based MomBoss Academy, a consulting service which assists mothers in starting home-based businesses, had lived in Singapore for the past 14 years, but decided to look elsewhere after rental prices skyrocketed.
