revhappy wrote:Locals can afford these jobs for all sorts of reasons; for example, the husband is the main earning member and the wife just wants to contribute to the family income so she could possibly work for 1200 or even 800$ if she thinks that earning 800$ is better than sitting at home and doing nothing at all.
Or staying at home and being a 'cost center' - you forgot that locals almost exclusively always eat out .. so .. the 800 to 1,200 can cover the meal
Now just because locals can do it, doesnt mean a foreigner can do it or should it. Life would be miserable for you unless you are a contruction worker or something. But then again, if you were one, you wouldnt have the ability to come to this forum and type so well
Well, in my experience, while the locals go for 'admin' 'hr' and similar jobs, so they can get off at 6 pm .. a lot of foreigners are more than willing to work for low pay ..
Like the Senior Analyst, who started at Bloomberg, for 1,600 $ salary, with more than 4 years experience ..
well, maybe the client got charged twice or thrice, but the poor bloke only got 1,600 and he was mighty excited and happy about that ..
So .. while there are expats who will not, for, say an Oracle DBA, even talk about it for less than 6,000 $ minimum, as I speak, one of the vendors I know engaged a pretty nice young DBA, for 1,800 - and get this - she does know her stuff .. and understood my requirements without any cross questioning and for the first time probably, I got a clean DB Instance delivered with minimum fuss ..
So ??
(I hope I didn't throw a spanner into this discussion now .. ) 
