Just 2 years ago, I used to live in Puchong, in the Malaysian state of Selangor. It was an hour’s drive from the city of Kuala Lumpur but we liked living there because….
(a) it was a relatively new housing area equipped with facilities such as shopping mall (IOI Shopping Centre), a wet market (Pasar Borong Selangor), schools, parks and about 30-minutes drive to KLIA.
(b) If we lived in KL proper, the traveling time would be about the same due to the traffic we would encounter on the way to work
(c) The journey to city centre is ‘breath-taking’ if not interesting (this would be the topic of my part 2 journal)
(d) KL is just not a place to raise a family!

Both my husband and I work in the city – he at (the infamous for traffic jam Golden Triangle) and I at Sentul (famous for curries, trains and Indians…) Here’s a brief on our daily routine every weekday.

We would leave the house at most 7.10am. Any later than that, we would encounter traffic snarls at the Bukit Jalil/Jalan Puchong intersection. This is also the main shopping area for the district where IOI Mall is.

Taking the Sungai Besi highway, we would definitely encounter the traffic jam near the Sg Besi military airport; here, we would spend about 30 – 45minutes of our journey.

Then it would be smooth riding (we would past the King’s Official Residence which is very pretty and nice) till we reach the Sultan Abdul Samad Building where hubby would divert to go into the city centre (going by Central Market towards Jalan Raja Chulan). More traffic here but this is the journey I like best because I get to see the many faces of KL folks – pretty, ugly etc.)