I said it was "relatively impoverished". Singapore has a high GINI coefficient for a country so developed. Despite that, living in the bottom 5% of income in Sg is still much better than most countries because of subsidized public housing.
It is one stop away from Dhoby Ghaut, the MRT station with the most connections to anywhere in the island, and three from Orchard, the one with arguably the highest commercial rents.
My point about it being relatively impoverished was that the majority of the Indian immigrant laborers live there. Relative to the average Sg citizen, they are living in poverty.
The lowest class by salary of any society lives, by definition, in poverty compared to the others.