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tina66
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moving to singapour

Post by tina66 » Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:20 am

My husband is being offered a job in Singpore, S$20,000 p/month. We have two children aged 6 and 8. The salary includes healthcare for the family but no housing or education. We currently live in Hong Kong and I work too.

My questions are the following:
- should the children attend an int'l or local school. I've heard education here is excellent.
- how much should we set aside for housing? I'm looking for a 3-4 bedroom flat. As I'm not familiar with Singapore, I don't know which area, I would presume not too far from schools.
- the plan is to eventually settle down, buy a home and so on. Is the cost of living high there (food, utilities, etc)?
- would I be able to work in Singapore as well? I'm an English Language Instructor teaching in a secondary school and for university evening courses.

Any advice, especially on kids' education will be most welcome.

I'm sure that many enquiries like mine have been posted
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Re: moving to singapour

Post by jpatokal » Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:22 pm

tina66 wrote:I'm sure that many enquiries like mine have been posted
They certainly have, which is why you should use the search function and find them.
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Post by chingv » Sun, 20 Apr 2008 1:41 pm

Hi, I believe cost of living in Singapore should generally be lower than in Hong Kong.

But the actual amount will vary widely depending on your lifestyle, of course.

Maybe try a search for "cost of living singapore" on Google and check out the results?
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