Expatriates in South East Asia Make More Money Than Expats in Any Other Region of the World

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maybe those engineers building the dams, oil exploration, building factories and bargirls STD examination? :ROFL2:
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juansweetpotato wrote:
phuketrichard wrote:
most months i put away a few hundred, unless the daughter calls LOL
thank god there were years i put away a lot :thumb:
Yeah well, keep it in your pocket. Haven't you noticed prices increasing everywhere you go? BTW I have never met an American that doesn't get a cheque from their parents each month.

We all know that if you stayed at home in a good enough job for years, you could buy a house. I never knew where I wanted to live and I never had a job that wasn't erratic and self employed. Preferring instead to wonder the globe before I died. It's the one thing that I regret not doing for finacial reasons and the one thing that defines the difference between most expats out here. I also was never dodgey enough to get a dodgey mortgage.
Most people I know in the UK that own houses have had a lot of help from their parents. Whatever the bullshit they spew when talking about their personal fortunes. It's normal.
If you stayed in the UK for years you could buy a house but it would take you years before you actually owned it outright. The benefit of being a globetrotting expat especially in Asia was/is being able to save most of your salary, live on the local allowance, and pay off a mortgage early or buy a house outright for cash. Those figures mentioned were typical for the expats I worked with in Thailand and guys I know working in industry around the Eastern Seaboard.

Regarding prices increasing everywhere you go, it costs me 50% less to fill my car up than a year ago, the airport bus from Jomtien to Bangkok has dropped its price from 134 baht to 120 baht and my last 2 flights to the UK were less than I was paying over 20 years ago.

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kiwiincambodia wrote:Sorry didn't read the full article.

I still would say that is on the high side. Not by much but definitely high as an average.
Unless it is a median average.
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come to sgp, u can come on a tourist visa look for work, once u got work, apply for work permit, once u work couple months apply for permanent residency, once u got permanent residency, buy a government subsidies public housing, after which when u decide to leave, sell the house for a handsome and the real citizens of singapore picks up the tab. only in singapore :bow: :bow: :bow:
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many of the guys i knew/know working off shore were making an average of $750-1,000/day and working 4 weeks on, 4 weeks off
made Lots of $$$$
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Samouth wrote:So now it makes more sense to stop complaining about the pineapple's price.
Yes, they should !
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prahkeitouj wrote:
Samouth wrote:So now it makes more sense to stop complaining about the pineapple's price.
Yes, they should !
Forget about pineapples. What about me? I'm just a humble English teacher that nobody wants as a boyfriend anymore because I'm not Khmer and I don't earn enough money. :cry:
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Here's a clue: It doesn't have anything to do with being Khmer.
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John Bingham wrote:Here's a clue: It doesn't have anything to do with being Khmer.
:crazy:
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juansweetpotato wrote:
prahkeitouj wrote:
Samouth wrote:So now it makes more sense to stop complaining about the pineapple's price.
Yes, they should !
Forget about pineapples. What about me? I'm just a humble English teacher that nobody wants as a boyfriend anymore because I'm not Khmer and I don't earn enough money. :cry:
Because you feel really insecured being around Cambodian women, plus you might think that everyone is money girl.
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