Empty Old Apartments

Living in downtown Ipoh is not a trend nowadays. People are choosing to stay in residential estates away from city center that provide sufficient space for more relaxing daily life. As mentioned in previous posts, many residents have migrated away from downtown shophouses. Similarly, old apartment like this one in South Treacher Street (opposite Chung Shan Primary School) also suffering the same fate where majority of the units have no occupant. For those occupied, they could be foreign workers. Despite the convenience of reaching several facilities & services by staying in downtown, the city center still losing population.