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• serendipitysays

  

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  February 10, 2012 8:04:43 AM CET

  Hello,
   
  My husband has been offered a job in Netherlands,salary package of 45000 Euros P.A.We will be relocating from Singapore.We both work here in the IT field and I earn 9100 SGD (5500 Euros ) per month. I am an service delivery manager & worked in IT sectors for both IT and banking industry for 9 years. I however do not have a job offer in NL yet & we will have a 6 month old baby around the time we move. We plan to stay some where in Amstelveen or even some where on the outskirts as my husband will rarely have to travel to work...Will my husbands salary be sufficent for us ? Will it be easy for me to get a job there?
   
  Happy to hear from anyone who has moved there and would really appreciate any information. I am a little scekptical about the move since I will have to forgo what I am earning here and kinda start from the scratch and everything depends on me getting a job but then again I am not sure if my husbands salary alone can sustain us for a few months until i get a job if that is easy in NL

• welliamin

  

  • 592 posts
   

  February 25, 2012 12:56:29 PM CET

  With the digits you give..i think you should stay where you are. Netherlands is a very expensive country compared SG. taxes are very high compared to Singapore. Singapore is a nice place to live, work and closer to your home with plenty of options and booming economy. The salaries in general are low in the netherlands compared to SG, US and other countries. 45 k sounds anyways very low to me. To maintain a similar standard of living as SG you need a lot more. So negotiating 10-20% hike will not get you anywhere.