Wd40 wrote:Even that comes at a tradeoff. For eg, if you are a bachelor sharing a room or something or live in a cheapo HDB etc.rajagainstthemachine wrote:The only benefit you get from working in Singapore is Monetary, the R&D power houses and software companies in India do much better quality of work than in Singapore. [ There are exceptions however]
The career growth is better in India than Singapore.
For a like to like living style as in India, you will actually struggle with the salary here.
In Singapore what is the median salary? 5k? An IT developer makes how much? 6k? So an IT developer in Singapore is just above average. Also considering foreigners need to rent and rent is huge here, you actually are close to low class just above poverty level for Singapore.
India what is the median income in a city like bangalore? About INR 25,000. Now how much an IT developer can make in Bangalore? easily 100,000++, infact a person getting 6k SGD here can get INR 150,000-180,000 in Bangalore. Thats lavish for Bangalore standards.
So the only reason to come to Singapore is to try and save as much as possible i.e. atleast 2000 SGD a month which is about INR 90,000. With a family here you will struggle and if you have school going kids then heaven forbid.
The only reason I had to come to Singapore was that they closed my department in India and fired everyone else except me.
They gave me 2 choices.
move to Singapore
or
find another department to work in
And since
a.) there weren't any departments with vacancies I couldn't move laterally.
b.) I loved what I was doing in the current job I had, thanks to blindingly stupid management decisions [ by a Singaporean incidentally] my department had a cull and I had to move overseas.
The thing that helped though was I had been coming to Singapore very often as often as 15 days per month in the last 2 years so making the move finding properties settling in was no problem.
I just found the workplace here to be a feudalistic hellhole compared to the other places I've worked in.