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How much can we save if we relocate?

by ofou 6y ago

jaclaz 6y ago
What is the source for those numbers? Who knows? You have to add - besides the cost of housing - the other costs, including food, transportation, private health (if not public), costs of school for your children (if any), and any number of other factors to make a minimally meaningful comparison.
- bsd44 6y ago
  Exactly. I wish I could downvote this. Not only are the numbers completely subjective, they are also not correct for some countries in the spreadsheet and they don't indicate living costs at all. Lower salary in a country where you don't have to pay for healthcare, university tuition and get 28 days paid holiday a year is a lot more than a higher salary in a country where you don't get any of that. What does the author try to achieve with such biased statistics?
  - yostrovs 6y ago
    The title does have the words "disposable income" in it, which explains what it is. You can gleam from it what you like, probably influenced by your political views.
  - ofou 6y ago
    It's an estimate from Numbeo (crowdsourced) data which comes from real people like us, crowdsourcing costs and salaries.
  - jcims 6y ago
    The numbers are actually much more objective than if they were to mix in all of the subjective quality of life elements that you're describing. This isn't a table of the best places to live.
- ofou 6y ago
  It's from Numbeo (crowdsourced), if you click the name of the city you can go to the website.
  - jaclaz 6y ago
    Good, so (in Europe): 1) get a job in Switzerland (if you want to stay in EU/Euro countries Germany or Denmark) 2) relocate (with the same wage) in Palermo or Tenerife 3) profit seriously, I am taking Palermo and Tenerife as examples of places where the climate is so much better than northern/continental Europe and - generally speaking - the cost of life is a fraction. But you don't need this spreadsheet to intuitively know this, and the data - since it is an average - cannot be really-really accurate (IMHO), maybe it can be useful within a same country.

How much can we save if we relocate?

by ofou 6y ago

How much can we save if we relocate?

What is the source for those numbers? Who knows? You have to add - besides the cost of housing - the other costs, including food, transportation, private health (if not public), costs of school for your children (if any), and any number of other factors to make a minimally meaningful comparison.

bsd44 6y ago
Exactly. I wish I could downvote this. Not only are the numbers completely subjective, they are also not correct for some countries in the spreadsheet and they don't indicate living costs at all. Lower salary in a country where you don't have to pay for healthcare, university tuition and get 28 days paid holiday a year is a lot more than a higher salary in a country where you don't get any of that. What does the author try to achieve with such biased statistics?
- yostrovs 6y ago
  The title does have the words "disposable income" in it, which explains what it is. You can gleam from it what you like, probably influenced by your political views.
- ofou 6y ago
  It's an estimate from Numbeo (crowdsourced) data which comes from real people like us, crowdsourcing costs and salaries.
- jcims 6y ago
  The numbers are actually much more objective than if they were to mix in all of the subjective quality of life elements that you're describing. This isn't a table of the best places to live.
ofou 6y ago
It's from Numbeo (crowdsourced), if you click the name of the city you can go to the website.
- jaclaz 6y ago
  Good, so (in Europe): 1) get a job in Switzerland (if you want to stay in EU/Euro countries Germany or Denmark) 2) relocate (with the same wage) in Palermo or Tenerife 3) profit seriously, I am taking Palermo and Tenerife as examples of places where the climate is so much better than northern/continental Europe and - generally speaking - the cost of life is a fraction. But you don't need this spreadsheet to intuitively know this, and the data - since it is an average - cannot be really-really accurate (IMHO), maybe it can be useful within a same country.