I've been in this rat race for 10 years already and the pandemic WFH just made things worse. I want to take a change and experience something else. Currently having 2 offers in London and Singapore. Unfortunately they are much lower than what I expected. I like both cities though. London would give me easy access to Europe while Singapore is closer to home. London has much higher tax rate but is more culturally interesting, imho.
Current TC: 500K
London TC: 250k GBP
Singapore TC: 200k SGD
Update: final offer after negotiation for London 260k GBP. I'm packing my bags. Thanks all!
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Taxes too high, rent/RE too high, health care is meh, infrastructure is shitty. The quality of life for your TC isn't good -- it'll go towards taxes, rent mostly
I'd recommend staying in FB @ Bay Area
I don't even get a decent 3G signal in prime areas.
The country is living in the 17th century and there's plenty of casual racism for people of color.
Healthcare system maybe not as great as US if your employed. But when you are inneed, you will never go broke because of hospital bills.
If you are married, stay.
If you are divorced and depressed, move to singapore
- Bay area: you’re already familiar but just in case, higher TCs, usually better job opportunities, but looks like it is far from your family. Close friends? Good weather, lots of nature around. Expensive cost of living for you and your family, that will keep getting more and more expensive with education and healthcare. Earthquake risk, fires every year, limited cultural history (compared with Europe). Vacations depends on company policy and if you actually take time off.
- London: Mid-tier TC, high taxes, shitty weather, rather expensive cost of living, decent time off policy, more commonly used than in bay area, tons of culture/places to visit in London and Europe, limited access to nature within London
- Singapore: smaller TC, tiny taxes, excellent standard of living (even at that TC), very good weather, excellent food from all over Asia, tiny city-need to fly out very often, tons of places to visit around South East Asia, limited job opportunities unless you work on Asian businessess/markets
List is not exhaustive but hopefully it gives you some context to consider
I don't think it's much valuable since anyone can get work visa easily
(From a Singaporean seriously considering to move to London haha)