engineer wrote:Hi ,
A company offered my girlfriend 3500 s$ and me 4200 s$, no housing allowances. (Bonus will be as the local standards)
Could we live comfortable on that ?? So eat, drink,sport, pay the bills and go out like here in Europe? And do some local travel??
thanks!!
It all depends, really. We're a European couple living on 8000 in total, and it's ok, but we cannot allow ourselves the same lifestyle as back home.
No car, but good housing (rent market is much better than in European cities), but then drinking and dining in restaurants is not cheap at all - drinks are horribly expensive!
If you take the bus instead of taxi, if you don't go out too much, if you are ok with eating in hawker centres instead of restaurants or at home (buying western food and cooking it at home is actually quite pricey!) etc you're ok.
Also, bear in mind that travelling IS cheap, but it is a problem getting time off to actually DO the travelling!! As you'd want at least one week back home for christmas, and then two weeks holiday somewhere in summer, there's not much holiday (days off) left at all. Also, travelling on public holidays or on the Friday night-Sunday night flights, you won't get the good deals and often end up paying much more than you thought.
After being here one year, we would not have accepted our package if we knew then what we know now.
