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Where next? Switzerland? UAE? NL? London?...

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    #11
    Originally posted by dsc View Post
    After recently visiting I'd say CH, but feck me it's expensive (and I though DK is expensive). Seems to be a very high standard of living and never seen a country so bloody clean, they must sweep everywhere three times a day at least.
    I don't find it expensive. But was in Germany this week - it's so cheap!
    Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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      #12
      Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

      I don't find it expensive. But was in Germany this week - it's so cheap!


      (Mind you the UK is bloody expensive now.)
      "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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        #13
        Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post

        I don't find it expensive. But was in Germany this week - it's so cheap!
        Well I'm sure for CH people it's normal, but having paid £13 for a box of eggs in some organic shop (friends there only eat organic...it's a long story) I beg to differ

        Also, who knew drugs can cost so much, go smth for a bladder infection and mosquito bites and paid £60

        On the other hand, Zurich airport with it's family area better than most UK nurseries and toilets cleaner than your own home one is just on another level. So you pay through the teeth but actually see something back. Also people seemed very nice, even though I stuck to English.

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          #14
          Originally posted by SueEllen View Post



          (Mind you the UK is bloody expensive now.)
          Just move to CH for a week, come back and all will be cheap again

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            #15
            Originally posted by dsc View Post

            Well I'm sure for CH people it's normal but having paid £13 for a box of eggs in some organic shop
            Should have gone to Coop. Organic eggs there £4.65 for six.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #16
              Spain was expensive this week
              Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

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                #17
                I'll see what gouging I get in Oslo this weekend and then compare it to Bangkok when I arrive on Tuesday

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
                  I'll see what gouging I get in Oslo this weekend and then compare it to Bangkok when I arrive on Tuesday
                  Don't drink and you will be fine.
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

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                    #19
                    Originally posted by HorseradishGuy View Post
                    Hi all,

                    I work in Infosec as a contractor.

                    I was working in UK, went to work in Amsterdam for a while, came down to Portugal on a fully remote role and the project got cancelled so I was given notice :-(

                    Also, split up with wife (the day before I got given notice). All good, can't hurt me as Goggins says.

                    So here I am, fully remote is proving difficult to find, so I am looking to go to where the work is.

                    I could go to the UK, rates are looking decent and the market appears bouyant. Rates in CH look great, but cost of living is high. I am still setup for contracting in NL, so thats an option. UAE has piqued my interest. I hear Luxembourg pays well.

                    Else it's stay here / Thailand / Bali / Mexico and either forget about work for a while, or wait for the elusive fully remote to come along.

                    Can anyone make any recommendations? I'm looking for ideas for somewhere to go, good money, plenty of demand, decent taxes (though I am thinking of becoming / keeping Portuguese tax resident)...

                    I *think* wouldn't mind doing a contract in Dubai.. any feedback on that as an option?

                    Thanks for any constructive feedback.

                    Dubai. I have been lucky enough to travel to lots of places during my lifetime and have spent quite a bit of time in Dubai this year. Without a shadow of a doubt the best City I have ever been to. If I were young I would 100% move there permanently. Its super clean, transport including taxis ultra cheap, best shopping centres in the world, best hotels in the world but the big clinchers are that its an incredibly safe place and its tax laws are ideal for contractors.
                    Last edited by mogga71; 3 October 2023, 05:52.

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                      #20
                      Originally posted by NotAllThere View Post
                      Should have gone to Coop. Organic eggs there £4.65 for six.
                      not sure what makes an egg organic, but here in the UK I can get half a dozen free-range eggs (from someone's garden) for £1.50 from an honesty box at the end of their drive.

                      That is Yorkshire though.

                      Swiss coop is good though. But are the organic eggs also completely white?
                      See You Next Tuesday

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